Phillips County Fair Wrap-up; 85 youths compete in 540 projects

The 99th Phillips County Fair found eighty-five youths competing in 540 projects. With 105 animals filling the barns and numerous indoor projects youth did very well in accomplishing many awards. Please check out page 5A of the PCN for trophy and award winners.

The results of the market animal carcasses have not been completed so watch for those results in new weeks PCN.

The Phillips County Extension office would like to take this opportunity to thank a few businesses and individuals for helping to make our county fair a success. Without the many sponsors and volunteer individuals, we would not have the fair program we do. A huge thanks to the Phillips County Fairboard and Cathy Bear. KMMR and the PC News for their continuous coverage of 4-H events. Ezzie’s Wholesale for the propane at the food booth. Fred Mavencamp for the straw and S&L Hauling and Construction for hauling the animals Pete Lumsden for the hay. First State Bank, First Security Bank, Milk River Co-op and Independence Bank for the breakfast. Montana Livestock Ag Credit Inc. for their continued purchase of hamburger for the 4-H food booth. Farm Equipment Sales of Glasgow for the use of their tractor. The scale helpers, Cody Oxarart, Russell Osmundson, Matt Veit and Alice Jaynes. Our 4-H Superintendents, Matt Simonson, Terri Bibeau and Carter Clausen. All of the trophy sponsors that were listed in last week’s paper.

We do have a few sponsors that were not listed do to the trophy not being awarded or there was no exhibit, they include: Art’s Furniture, Tom and Lorraine Watson, Noel and Sharon Emond, Rocky Road 4-H Club, Ellen Korsbeck, Patty’s Greenhouse, Spare Change, Milk River Co-op, Pay N Save, Holman Angus, First Creek Seeds, Waters Ranch, Rocky Ridge Ranch, Knight’s of Columbus and Blooming Prairie Inc.

A gigantic thank you goes out to Liz Brown our fair booth manager. The Extension Office expressed their appreciation to everyone for helping with the 99th annual PC Fair. We look forward to the 100th fair celebration.