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FAIR FUN STRAIGHT AHEAD

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Event Schedule Friday, July 29 5:30 p.m.......Registration for Mutton Busting, rodeo arena 6 p.m............Mutton Busting, rodeo arena (Sponsored by JD’s Tire & Muffler) 8 p.m............URA-MRCA RODEO, rodeo arena (Rodeo ticket takers: Community National Bank-Humboldt) ($10 or 2 event tickets*) 8 p.m............RACE NIGHT , Humboldt Speedway ($10)

Saturday, July 30 8 a.m............Smokin’ Hot Cars & BBQ sponsored by the Iola Rotary Club, Riverside Park, 2 p.m. Awards given. For information call Tom Brigham at 365-9740.

9 a.m............4-H Dog Show, show arena 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. – Smokin’ Hot Pork in the Park Picnic 10 a.m..........Register for Dry Land Turtle Race, Baby Barnyard 10:30 a.m.. Dry Land Turtle Race, north of Baby Barnyard (Sponsored by Mid-West Fertilizer) 5:30 p.m.......Registration for Mutton Busting, rodeo arena 6 p.m.. . . .Mutton Busting, rodeo arena (Sponsored by JD’s Tire & Muffler) 8 p.m.....URA-MRCA RODEO, rodeo arena (Rodeo ticket takers: Community National Bank-Humboldt) ($10 or 2 event tickets*)

Sunday, July 31 8 a.m.-8. p.m. – Unload beef, sheep, swine, goats (no exceptions; must be inspected) 2-5 p.m.........Open class entries received, Little Theater (EXCEPT BAKED FOOD) 2-5 p.m.........4-H entries received (Clothing, Fiber Arts, Notebooks, Posters, Geology Entomology, Aerospace, Woodworking, Electric, Forestry, Welding) (EXCEPT FOODS, PLANT SCIENCE, FLOWERS & PHOTOGRAPHY)

5-6 p.m.........Weigh-in 4-H/FFA Beef 5:30-8 p.m....Kiwanis Train Ride, pick up near the Baby Barnyard 6-7 p.m.........Weigh-in 4-H/FFA Sheep & Goats 7-8 p.m.........Weigh-in 4-H/FFA Swine 7:30 p.m.......Brenda Clark - Free stage east of community building 8 p.m............All Rabbits and Open Class Livestock must be in place 8 p.m. ..........DRAFT HORSE PULL , rodeo arena ($5 or 1 event ticket*)

Monday, August 1 COMMUNITY BUILDING CLOSED TO PUBLIC 8 A.M. - 3 P.M. LITTLE THEATER OPEN FOR OPEN CLASS ENTRIES 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Open class entries received 7:30-10 a.m. – 4-H Plant Science & Flowers entries received 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Consultation judging of 4-H entries by schedule listed in dept.

3-9 p.m.........Community building open to view exhibits 4:30 p.m.......Poultry Show 5 p.m............Judging 4-H & OPEN CLASS Garden, Crop, Horticulture, Flowers, Woodworking, Electric 5:30-8 p.m....Kiwanis Train Ride, pick up near the Baby Barnyard 6 p.m............Rabbit Show 6:30 p.m.......Steer Show followed by Heifer Show 7 p.m............Local Talent Show, Free stage east of community building Following Talent Show-10 p.m.— Street Dance (free to the public)

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8 a.m.-9 p.m. Community building open to view exhibits 8 a.m............Swine Show Little Theater 9 a.m............Judging of open class Home Economics exhibits closed during open Judging of open class Domestic Arts and Fine Arts class judging Judging of open class Photography 9:30 a.m.......Registration for Best Dressed Pet Contest 10 a.m..........Best Dressed Pet Contest, north shelter house 1 p.m............Dairy Cattle Show followed by Dairy Goat Show 4 p.m.-Dark...Beach Party Family Fun Night with Inflatables, south of community building (Sponsored by Allen County 4-H Council) ($10 wrist band) 5-6 p.m.........Registration for Pedal Pull, east of community building 5:30-8 p.m....Kiwanis Train Ride, pick up near the Baby Barnyard 6 p.m............Baked Pie Contest (cherry only), prizes awarded, Little Theater 6-8:30 p.m....Gale Ritter Pedal Pull (Sponsored by Allen County Farm Bureau) 6:30 p.m.......Meat Goat Show followed by Sheep Show 6:30 p.m.......FREE Watermelon Feed, near show arena (Sponsored by PSI Insurance)

Wednesday, August 3 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Community building open to view exhibits 9 a.m............Horse Show 4 p.m............4-H/Cloverbud Bucket Calf Show 5 p.m............Round Robin Showmanship Finals 5:30-8 p.m....Kiwanis Train Ride, pick up near the Baby Barnyard 6 p.m............4-H Trophy Presentations, Little Theater 6-9 p.m.........Program by Kansas Dept. of Wildlife and Parks, Baby Barnyard 6:30-8:30 p.m. — 4-H Family Pool Party, Riverside Park 7 p.m............RANCH RODEO, rodeo arena ($5 or 1 event ticket*) 7:30-9 p.m.. . .The Blue Tick Hounds - Free stage east of community building

Thursday, August 4 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Community building open to view exhibits 8:30 a.m.......Register for 4-H Livestock Judging Contest 9 a.m.-noon. .Livestock Judging Contest, show arena. All non-sale livestock including rabbits released following Livestock Judging Contest Noon............4-H Barnyard Olympics, show arena 1 p.m............4-H Purple Ribbon pictures, Iola Register, show arena 6 p.m............Livestock Buyers Appreciation Dinner (Sponsored by Emprise Bank & Kramer Family) 7 p.m............4-H and FFA LIVESTOCK PREMIUM AUCTION, show arena

Friday, August 5 7:30-9 a.m....Checkout open class exhibits 8-10 a.m.......Checkout 4-H exhibits 8 a.m............Fair checks for open class may be picked up at fair office. All exhibits must be picked up by 9 a.m. or they become property of Allen County Fair Association. Livestock must be out of barns for cleanup.

9 a.m............4-H’ers check in at show arena for cleanup.

Saturday, August 6 6 p.m............MUD RUN, Wide Open Speed Park, Humboldt ($10 or 2 event tickets*)

*Event tickets $5 each.

Some events require two event tickets for admission.

For more information call (620) 363-0686

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arly Kramer’s first bucket calf set the bar high.

At last year’s fair and then in her first year of 4-H, Kramer’s Hereford bucket calf named Rocky won reserve grand champion. Now a steer, Rocky’s title may be passed on to Kramer’s new bucket calf, Mary Mary Quite Contrary.

If Mary wins, it won’t be the only similarity between her and Rocky.

“They both act the same way,” Kramer said, using a sheep halter to lead her calf. “They’re both really stubborn and they both fight when we try to walk.”

It was the stubbornness, combined with an abundance of muscle, that earned Rocky his name. Mary’s name, on the other hand, was the only name Kramer said she could think of.

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Carly Kramer looks over her bucket calf, Mary Mary Quite Contrary — Mary for short — that she will show at the Allen County Fair.

be entered, so Kramer chose Rocky over Panda.

“I chose Rocky because he walked really good,” Kramer said. But Rocky was also a Hereford, which is Kramer’s favorite breed.

“Once I saw how pretty they were, I changed my mind on my favorite breed of cow,” Kramer added. Longhorns were her previous favorite.

Now, Rocky and Panda can both be entered as steers as

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Kramer said she is not sure if she wants to sell her steers.

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keep them,” Kramer said. “I don’t want them put in the market.”

But if she sells one, she will buy a breeding heifer next year.

KRAMER FEEDS her steers and bucket calf twice a day and walks them on weekends and whenever else she can. Her busy summer schedule includes playing softball.

“We make sure we walk her and keep her exercised so she doesn’t lose weight,” Kramer said. “We’ve got to teach her to lead because she does not lead very well.”

Kramer has the experience of teaching one calf how to

lead. “(Rocky) led pretty good after he knew what to do,” Kramer said. “But he didn’t lead while he learned. He’d just stand there and be stubborn.”

When Mary doesn’t want to move, Kramer’s younger brother Henry comes to the rescue.

“We asked my little brother to get behind her when we walk because she does not like him,” Kramer said. “I’m trying to get her to like him.”

“Getting them to walk, it’s really the only thing that’s hard,” Kramer said.

She added that petting Mary is the most fun aspect of having a bucket calf.

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“I like that a lot, because she likes it, too,” Kramer said. “I just love rubbing her head. She really likes her head rubbed — that’s the only thing to get her relaxed.”

And sometimes, Mary will use Kramer “as a scratching post and do it by herself.”

CATTLE ARE NOT the only animals Kramer has had success with at the fair.

Last year, Kramer’s photo of Dot, her grandmother’s kitten, won a purple ribbon.

He was posed in a flower bucket.

She is also doing a wildlife project.

“We decided that I wanted to try a new project to see if I could do it, so we decided to

do a diorama,” Kramer said.

“So we’re doing a great blue herring (heron). I really like them because they’re a really pretty bird.”

The diorama will include information on the bird, including its habitat.

HENRY’S Cloverbud project was inspired by something familiar: Dad’s tractor. Carly and Henry are the children of Mike and Kelli Kramer.

When completed, the art project will depict a red quadtrac tractor and a barn painted against a blue sky. In the cab of the tractor will be a photo of Henry.

The painting was done on a plywood board. Henry used blue painter’s tape to outline the designs and to keep the paint inside the lines.

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hat is the worst part about the fair and 4-H, according to Marlee Miller?

“Selling (the animals) at the auction,” Miller said.

So why does she do it?

“I don’t know,” Miller said.

“Probably to make money.”

That money then buys the next year’s animals and new school clothes for the fall.

Miller, a member of the Logan Pals 4-H Club and the daughter of Shambri and Matt Miller, has sold animals at her three previous fairs.

At her very first fair, she even won the reserve champion York. Miller is 10 years old and will be a 5th-grader in the fall.

“Getting to show off our hard work and trying to do our best,” was what Miller said is the best part of the fair. “And free watermelon.”

PEPPER THE PIG and Lewey the steer are Miller’s animals this year.

Pepper is Miller’s favorite, because Lewey headbutts her.

Miller said the most difficult part of raising Pepper is trying to put weight on her.

Lewey’s greatest difficulty, on the other hand, is training him to walk. Miller prac-

Marlee Miller hoses down the steer she will enter in the upcoming Allen County Fair. At right is Miller’s pig.

tices with Lewey once a day for about 30 minutes.

Miller demonstrated how to show pigs by leading Pepper around her grandpa’s backyard. Afterward, Lewey received a bath.

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have given him a bath,” Miller said. “I think he likes it.”

“Getting to work with animals,” Miller said was her favorite part about 4-H. “They all have different personalities. Like this one is pretty ornery (motioning toward Lewey).”

Miller said her 4-H projects have taught her something that school has not.

“You have to show a lot of responsibility with your animals,” she said.

Along with that responsibility comes a lesson learned from last year.

“Don’t feed pigs marshmallows,” Miller said.

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Marlee Miller works with her pig in advance of the Allen County Fair. busy for Miller, who also plays softball for High Octane, a traveling team from Humboldt and Chanute.

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is a week before the fair, as is the style review. Miller also competes in buymanship.

Softball is the inspiration behind Miller’s arts and crafts project. It will

be a picture frame painted with curving red laces on top of a softball-yellow background.

Once completed, the frame may hold one of Miller’s softball photos.

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New fair activities promote family fun The fair will feature two new activities this year: a street dance and a beach party.

The street dance will cap off Monday night’s fair festivities, following the talent show at the stage east of the Community Building.

John Barker, LaHarpe, has donated the services of Uncle John’s Backyard Entertainment to be a DJ for the street dance, said Carla

Nemecek, Southwind Extension agent.

The beach party is an addition to Tuesday’s “Family Day at the Fair.” From 4 p.m. to dark, $10 will buy unlimited access to the inflatables.

The inflatables will be in the grassy area of the park between the Iola Municipal Pool and the Community Building.

“The whole idea (of the Family Day) was have a reason for families to come

out to the fair on Tuesdays,” Nemecek said.

In addition to the beach party, the Family Day includes the best-dressed pet contest, pedal pull and a free watermelon feed, among other activities.

“People enjoy seeing the fair exhibits, but we are also seeking for them to be entertained,” Nemecek said.

Mike and Nancy Ford, an Iola policeman and city councilwoman, discounted

the price for the use of the inflatables for the 4-H Council.

The revenue from the inflatables will be used as a 4-H fundraiser.

“The beach party is a fun theme, and I hope people will take advantage of all the fun things that will take place at Riverside Park and support the community and 4-H,” Nemecek said.

Monday is the first day 4-H exhibits are available for viewing by the public.

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rocrastination on fair projects is not uncommon for the Weide and Hirt

siblings.

Sometimes they do their best work when a deadline looms over them. Other times, it blows up. Literally.

Two years ago, Katie Weide needed a photo for the fair.

And it was a Thursday with fair entries due Monday.

At the Iola Municipal Band concert that evening, Weide snapped a photo of a piccolo player and her shadow. Four days later, the photo won a purple ribbon. A month later, the photo won another award at the state fair.

For the next year, the photo traveled the state, hanging on the walls of Extension offices.

But the night and early morning before the last year’s fair, Weide had another project explode right in front of her.

“We had a glass Pyrex pan, and we didn’t realize the burner was on,” Weide said.

“We set it on the burner, and it exploded.”

She still has a scar on her toe from a shard of glass. But the injury didn’t keep her

from finishing her cooking projects.

“And then we had to get my yeast rolls because they weren’t in the explosion,” Weide continued. “They were in a different room. And I still had to cook them.”

Those yeast rolls won a purple ribbon and then went to state.

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Katie Weide, right, shows on her cell phone a photo she will enter in the Allen County Fair. Below, Katie sits with her brother, Ethan.

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Prairie Dell 4-H Club, along with brother Ethan Weide, a 7th-grader, and stepsisters Abi and Lilli Hirt, who are in 6th and 2nd grades. Katie is a sophomore.

While procrastination on projects may be common for the family, Lilli had three projects already finished: dried grapes, grape jelly and canned carrots. Lilli was helped by Terri Kretzmeier, the club community leader.

Lilli said grape jelly is her favorite, but she may share it. But Abi said Lilli isn’t good at sharing, even when she makes peanut butter balls for the family.

Sometimes, “helping” each other consists of walking into the kitchen and saying, “That smells good,” Abi said. But then the “helping” is capped off by eating some of the extra food, Katie added.

Ethan is in sewing, cooking and buymanship. He has the buymanship clothes, it is too early to start cooking and the sewing hasn’t been started.

In the past, he has sewn an apron and clothes. Once, he accidentally sewed a sleeve on inside out.

Abi has projects in food and nutrition, arts and crafts and photography.

She was thinking about maybe making bracelets for her arts and crafts. She also made bracelets last year.

The bracelets are sometimes worn, but Abi said she has to be careful because they

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Above, sisters Abi, left, and Lilli Hirt pose for a picture.

The Hirts will enter a number of projects in the Allen County Fair, including Lilli’s preservation projects, at right.

can break if they get wet.

Abi said she would take photos at the Drum Corps International show in Warrensburg, Mo., on July 18. She also has photos of a cactus plant and the neighbor’s newborn baby.

Katie took photos on a recent Upward Bound trip to Chicago, where she went to the iconic Cloud Gate Sculpture. But she didn’t have much of a chance to experiment with her photos at the reflective, bean-looking sculpture.

“We had to stay in groups of three, and my group of three decided to play Pokémon Go,” Katie said.

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Every year since she was eligible, Katie has taken a photo to the state fair.

COOKING WITH family was something Abi and Ethan agreed was their favorite part of 4-H. Abi said she makes machine bread with her grandmother. Last year, her lemon bread went to state. It also received the “Best Machine Bread Levels I and II” at last year’s fair.

This year, Abi is contemplating baking raisin bread.

Abi said it would be “safe” because her grandmother makes it a lot. She also knows the raisin bread is a proven success because Katie got a purple ribbon when she made it.

Two years ago, Ethan’s gift basket made it to the state fair.

Lilli is the only one who hasn’t had something make it to the state fair. This is also only her first year in 4-H. Lilli said in addition to Kretzmeier, her biggest helpers are her mom Lori Weide, aunt Sarah Weide and Katie.

Lilli’s siblings have all modeled before, something Lilli will have to do for the first time this year.

“I remember one of my first times I modeled, I was so scared I started crying because there were so many people,” Ethan said.

Katie has several years of experience with modeling buymanship and sewing projects, and she has attempted

Katie Weide, left, directs Lilli Hirt as Hirt pretends to model for the upcoming Allen County Fair Style Revue. Below, one of Weide’s photos, a picollo player and her shadow, earned high marks at a previous county fair.

to pass on her knowledge to Lilli. But Lilli isn’t always the best learner.

“That was something,” Katie said with a laugh, talking about trying to teach Lilli how to model. “Walking up, ‘Oh, let’s do a cartwheel. Let’s do a somersault.’”

Lilli then stood up and demonstrated her modeling.

And sure enough, it consisted of a somersault.

“If you want some interesting fun, just go to the style review and watch her walk,” Katie said.

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ooper Welch is too young to be in 4-H. Instead, Welch is in his first year as a Cloverbud in the Prairie Rose 4-H Club.

For his Cloverbud project at the fair, Welch will make a poster showing the life cycle of either bugs or frogs.

Welch doesn’t like bugs, but he does like frogs.

“Yeah, because I can catch them,” Welch said.

Welch, who will be a kindergartener in Moran this fall, said he learns at school and at 4-H. So far, Welch is still working on learning the way meetings operate, including parliamentary procedure, and the 4-H pledges.

Welch started learning how to show sheep at the Pee-Wee Showmanship last year. He said he is excited to show animals in 4-H in the future, including sheep and pigs.

Welch said he likes animals, but he also has to help do chores with his parents, Scott and Amy Welch on their farm south of Moran. He also has two younger sisters, twins Kinley and Karly, who are 10 months old.

“Mostly when I get bored I

do chores,” Welch said. “Mom keeps me outside forever.”

He has to feed animals, including cows and a big, fat pot-bellied pig named Marley.

She is bigger than he is.

He also helps drive tractors by sitting on his dad’s lap.

“I can drive tractors,” Welch said.

Welch will also try his hand at mutton busting during the rodeo. Mutton busting is where youngsters ride rampaging sheep, either by bearhugging the sheep or grabbing handfuls of wool.

“I think I am going to grab on and maybe they’ll say, ‘Whoa, get off, get off,’” Kooper said.

Kooper has two more years until he can be a full 4-H member.

CLOVERBUDS are a special kind of 4-H’er. While not yet full members of 4-H, Cloverbuds are able to participate in several 4-H activities.

While they do not technically have a vote, Cloverbuds do sit in on 4-H club meetings where they can learn the process. They also can participate in the recreational activity at See WELCH | Page 15

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4-H meetings.

Cloverbuds have a special showcase at fairs where everyone receives the same participation ribbon, according to the KState Research and Extension Cloverbud Guide. Cloverbuds is meant to be noncompetitive and fun way for children to learn basic skills.

Cloverbuds range from ages 5 to 6, while 4-H membership starts at age 7. 4-H counts someone’s age based off January 1, so kids with birthdays after that date are counted as a year younger.

For more information on 4-H and Cloverbuds, visit the KState Research and Extension website or call the Southwind Research and Extension office at 365-2242.

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Whether it is senior portraits, weddings or family photos, Storrer does it all with her business, b.storrer photography.

She started the business in 2012, when she was in middle school.

“It’s improved though quite a bit,” Storrer said with a smile.

Storrer, who will be a senior at Iola High School this fall, competes in photography and market beef as a member of the City Slickers 4-H Club. Storrer, now 17, first started shooting photos when she was 8.

“Over half my life now,” Storrer said. “That’s weird to think about.”

She started with, “A cute little ‘point and shoot’ camera. Now I’m up to a DSLR,” Storrer said.

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At a time when anyone can snap a photo with a smart

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“There’s so much more than just looking at it,” Storrer said. “There’s so much more inside of the picture.

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Her busy schedule limits her time, preventing her from taking more than two projects to the fair.

“Easier on me, and the steer probably,” Storrer said.

While Storrer has shown other animals in the past, she said she likes showing steers the most.

“You get a new personality every year with (steers),” Storrer said. “It’s kind of cool.”

She described this year’s steer as “very hot-headed and very independent” and said “he wants his own way.”

Last year, her two steers were “very calm and easygoing.”

When steers are more difficult to work with, Storrer said you have to keep working with them.

“You’ve got to try your hardest,” she said.

PHOTOGRAPHY skills Brooklyn Storrer’s passion for photography has led her to several prize-winning photos. She’ll enter the photo at left in the 2016 Allen County Fair.

were not the limits of 4-H’s impact on Storrer.

Storrer said her parents, Robert and Gina Storrer, helped her with 4-H and especially with learning respect and responsibility.

“You’ve got to respect everybody there and you have to be responsible for your own projects,” Storrer said.

“You’ve got to be responsible

for feeding your steers and working with them, and any of your animals, really. And being responsible for getting everything done that you signed up for.”

Storrer’s older brother, Colten Storrer, helped her learn how to work with cattle.

“He helped me out with my beef project quite a bit,” Storrer said. “I mean, he always did it right beside me.”

When she was a younger 4-H member, she also had plenty of role models.

“I looked up to all the older members,” Storrer said.

“They had everything in such control. They were all the senior showers and exhibitors and they were just always the best people and the ones you always looked up to.”

Meeting new people is her favorite part about 4-H. “The people that you meet,” Storrer said. “You make so many friends and you learn so many public skills, like how to talk to people and how to make new friends anywhere.”

Storrer said she appreciates how helpful fellow 4-H’ers are at fairs.

“The environment of (fairs), the nature of everybody being there,” Storrer said. “Like, if a calf gets away, everybody’s there to help. I mean, everybody’s just there. If your steer gets untied, somebody’s there to tie him back up, or they knock their water over, somebody’s there to fill it back up for you if you’re not there.

Everybody’s just super helpful with each other.”

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ll the time and hard work put into 4-H paid off in scholarships for Caitlin Dreher.

Dreher, the Southwind Extension office intern, will continue her education at Hutchinson Community College this fall, where she will major in animal science and participate on the livestock judging team. The judging team awarded Dreher, a 2016 Iola High School graduate and valedictorian, a scholarship covering books and tuition.

“Traveling to judging contests with the Southwind (judging) team has been super fun and one of my favorite things that I did during my 4-H career,” Dreher said.

“And that definitely helped me plan my future and that helped me get my scholarship to judge in college.”

Showing animals, particularly pigs, has played a big role in Dreher’s time in 4-H. “It’s just been a great experience for me,” Dreher said.

“I’ve met people all over the state and the country and I’m still in contact with those people, and that’s what I really love about it.”

Caitlin Dreher, right, inspects Josie Ellis’ bucket calf during a recent workshop. Dreher is eager to impart her experiences to other 4-H’ers.

One of those people will be on the judging team with Dreher at Hutchinson Community College this fall. They met when showing pigs and became friends.

“The friends that I’ve made and the people that I’ve met are probably my favorite thing (about 4-H),” Dreher said. “Going to those fairs and events led to meeting

those people, and I know that I’m going to be in touch with them for the rest of my life.”

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ANIMALS have been a major factor in Dreher’s 12-year 4-H career. When it comes to naming them, Dreher and younger sister Carly, who just finished 5th grade, choose a theme. This year, which will be Dreher’s last fair as a 4-H’er, the animals are named after “Grey’s Anatomy” characters.

Sometimes, though, the pigs are named after famous people, such as singers or bachelorette competitors.

“It’s kind of a mutual agreement between me and my sister,” Carly Dreher said.

“But sometimes Caitlin gets a little more say in that since she’s older.”

The entire Dreher family, including parents Jerry and Cathy, pitches in with caring for the animals.

“We work together in the barn all the time, and it’s a family project for sure,” Dreher said. “Dad’s always out there and Mom helps also.

Carly and I walk pigs together and we feed pigs together.

Carly is at home during the day so she keeps them cool during the day and waters them when they need it.”

THE KNOWLEDGE that comes with years of experience of showing animals at fairs and other competitions has been passed along.

“I’ve helped (Carly) growing up, teaching her how to show pigs, and she’s become very successful also,” Dreher said. “She’s kind of following in my footsteps.”

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“Bri Burris was one person that I definitely see as a role model,” Dreher said. “She was in our 4-H club, and she

didn’t start showing pigs until she was in high school, so I actually helped her learn how to show pigs. But she was always a role model. She was our club president, and I still look up to her.”

Dreher’s advice to younger 4-H’ers was to stay involved and that hard work pays off.

“Being involved and going to events and working hard at them is when you’ll get the most out of 4-H,” Dreher said.

Responsibility, reliability, communication skills, hard work and saying “thank you” all were included on Dreher’s list of what 4-H taught her that school did not. But 4-H also has helped her set personal goals.

“I’ve just grown a passion for agriculture,” Dreher said.

“I think agriculture is obviously a super important thing to our world, and I think that educating people about agriculture and teaching youth about agriculture, I love to do that. I love to spread the word about how important it is.”

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Yearlong effort pays off at livestock sale Scores of young Allen Countians will be eligible to sell livestock at the annual Allen County Fair’s 4-H and FFA Lions Club Auction. The auction will start at 7 p.m.

Aug. 4 at the livestock show arena.

Local auctioneers, who donate their expertise, sell steers, hogs, meat goats and lambs raised and shown at the fair by 4-H’ers and FFA members. Other volunteers will provide support for the sale, by catching bids, logging sales and otherwise helping.

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will be the same as they have been in the past.

The day of the sale, base bids will be established for each class of animal. The young exhibitors are permitted to sell one animal for a premium, more if they’re willing to take only the base bid.

The night of the sale people bidding on the livestock may, and usually do, pay more than the base bids for animals.

Any money above the base bid is the “premium” that the young owners receive.

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the young owner keep the animal, in which case he pays only the premium. If the buyer wants to take possession of the animal, to be butchered or whatever, the full price, base plus premium, is paid. If the buyer wants, he may let the animal go to market and pay just the premium; the base bid is paid by a professional packer.

To put the process in mathematical perspective, assume the base bid for steers is 50 cents a pound. If a buyer bids 80 cents a pound, or $80 per hundredweight, the premium paid is 30 cents a pound,

$30 a hundredweight. For a 1,000-pound steer, that gives the owner a premium of $300.

Many of the 4-H and FFA exhibitors sell their livestock to earn money for special things or to put in nest eggs for their college education.

Many businesses participate in the livestock auction each year and individuals also are encouraged to do so. Organizers note that participation is the community’s way of showing its appreciation for the youngsters involved and recognizing the efforts they put in to raise and show the animals.

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Allen County Fair - Iola, Kansas

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Riverside Park - Iola

URA/MRCA Sanctioned

Rodeo MUTTON BUSTING Fri. July 29 & Sat. July 30 Rodeo Arena Registration at 5:30 p.m.; Event begins at 6 p.m.

Draft ll Horse Pu Sun., July 31 • 8 p.m.

Talent Show

$

Fri., July 29 & Sat., July 30 Turtle Race 8 p.m. nightly Sat., July 30 Adults - $10 or (2) event tickets.

Children (6-10) - $5 or (1) event ticket. Under 5 FREE.

RatACE NIGHT Humboldt Speedway

Friday, July 29, 2016

5 per ride

Gates open at 6 p.m. - Racing at 8 p.m.

B ren d a C la rk Ages 6 & Up 5 (5 & under free) $

G ospel M usic 7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Free S ta g e Ea s to fthe Co m m u n ityBu ild in g

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Mon., August 1 • 7 p.m.

Free Stage East of Community Building

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Supernova Dance Authority

Tue., August 2 • 8 p.m.

Free Stage East of the Community Building

RANCH RODEO Wed., Aug. 3 7 p.m. at the rodeo arena (Ages 6 & Up $5; 5 and under FREE)

Wed., Aug. 3

Gale Ritter

Ages 4 to 12

PEDAL PULL

Beach Party Family Fun Night Tue., Aug. 2 • 6 p.m.

East of Community Building

FREloE n Feed

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6:30 rea Arena A

Tue., August 2 4 p.m.-Dark

Sponsored by PSI Insurance

10 Wrist Band for Unlimited Inflatable Admission $

Sat., Aug. 6 • 6 p.m.

Adults - $10; 6-12 - $6 5 & under FREE

Race: 10:30 a.m.

Barnyard

The Iola Rotary Club presents

Sat., July 30

Adults - $10; Children (6-12) - $5

T he B lu e T ick H ou n d s

Sunday, July 31

Registration: 10 a.m. Baby

Kansas BBQ State Championship Event Register online at bbq.iola-rotary.org Smokin’ Hot Pork in the Park Picnic 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. & Neil Westervelt Memorial CAR SHOW & Motorcycles Registration: 8-11 a.m.; Cruise for Kids through Iola: 2 p.m.

Best Dressed Pet Contest Tue., Aug. 2 9:30 a.m. Registration

10 a.m. Contest

North Shelter House

Baked Pie Contest Cherry Only

Tue., Aug. 2 • 6 p.m.

Little Theater, Riverside Park 1361 Maryland Rd.

Kiwanis Train Rides Sun. - Wed. Evenings 5:30-8 p.m.