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Maxine and I have received the last two weeks of the P Star and have been watching the forum to see what the schedule was in case we get a chance to come. Gee I could only find it on the Kansas State web site. What is interesting is that, as much as we would love to see David. It is on Sunday night and we have to be home early.Also was is the indoor judging?
Maude and Maxine


2009 Howard Elk County Fair
Schedule of Events
Monday, July 13
6:30 p.m. Horse Show
Wednesday, July 15
9:00 a.m. Clothing Construction and Fiber Arts Judging ‐ West Elk High School
10:00 a.m. Fashion Revue Judging ‐ West Elk High School
7:00 p.m. Supporters and Friends of 4‐H Picnic ‐ West Elk High School
8:00 p.m. Public Fashion Revue ‐ West Elk High School
Friday, July 17
10:00 a.m. 4‐H Foods Judging ‐ Extension Meeting Room
6:00 ‐ 6:15 p.m. Weigh Market Steers
6:15 ‐ 7:00 p.m. Weigh Market Lambs
7:00 ‐ 7:15 p.m. Weigh Meat Goats
7:15 ‐ 8:00 p.m. Weigh Market Hogs
8:00 p.m. Williams & Long Rodeo Company
Saturday, July 18
8:00 ‐ 10:00 a.m. Indoor Exhibits, Bucket Calf, Rabbit and Poultry Exhibits Accepted
10:00 a.m. Judging of Indoor Exhibits and 4‐H Consultation Judging
11:00 a.m. Fair Parade ‐‐ Downtown ‐ Sponsored by Howard Chamber of Commerce
11:45 a.m. Turtle Race ‐‐ Fairgrounds ‐ Sponsored by Lanning Auto Supply
1:00 p.m. Family Fun and Games @ Grandstand (Added money in memory of Kenny &
Pauline Smith)
5:30 p.m. 4‐H Sheep Fitting & Showing and Judging of Sheep followed by 4‐H Goat Fitting
and Showing and Judging of Goats
7:00 p.m. Free Watermelon Feed ‐ Sponsored by Southern Kansas Insurance Agency &
Dave's Enterprises ‐ Dave Helsel
8:00 p.m. Williams & Long Rodeo Company
8:30 p.m. Adult Round Robin Contest
Sunday, July 19
9:00 a.m. Community Church Service
12:30 p.m. 4‐H Beef Fitting & Showing and Judging of Beef and Bucket Calves
3:00 p.m. Judging of Rabbits followed by Judging of Poultry
3:00 ‐ 6:00 p.m. P.T.O. & Jaws of Life Demonstrations and Ice Cream Social Sponsored by Elk
County Farm Bureau
6:00 p.m. Community Choir Performance
6:30 p.m. 4‐H Swine Fitting & Showing and Judging of Swine
7:00 p.m. Entertainment & Food Auction ‐‐ David Oakleaf
Monday, July 20
9:00 a.m. Round Robin
1:00 ‐ 2:00 p.m. Check out ALL entries (except sale animals)
6:00 p.m. Free Barbecue
6:30 p.m. 4‐H Trophy Presentation Ceremony at Show Arena
7:00 p.m. 4‐H/FFA Livestock Premium Sale
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Maude and Maxine thanks for posting this information. That looks like a fair that I would love to go to and enjoy. Good job Elk folks. See how much you can learn from the cartoon pages. (Maude and Maxine is a cartoon). By the way I am not the David mentioned by Maude. I hope you "girls" post more often/ ;D
David

Fair Parade.. 2009

Hope this comes through ok.. Understand that ( since I was the one taking the pictures) my family is in these too.  :)

Thought you all might like to see how nice the parade was. Seemed to be a lot of people there this year. Weather helped a lot! 80 degrees and beautiful .

Excellent - Thanks!

Teresa

Great Pictures!  I think it was a wonderful parade!  You have a pretty good looking family too!

AB

Wonderful job, Teresa...The pic of Jo was wonderful!!!!  What a classy lady...Just like her daughter.  ;)

Don't know how you did this, but even on my pokie slow dial up those pictures just blinked right on! Neat parade with lots of fun floats and people in it. Thanks for sharing. Ya just gotta love a small town parade!

Great pics! Thanks!  :D

This afternoon a few of the fireman volunteered to bring the Jaws of Life equipment to the fairgrounds to demonstrate the use of it, by showing everyone how they cut a car up to get a person out after a car wreck.

Derek Cookson , Todd Wincher were the main cutters.  Helpers were Danny Signer, John Robertson, & Sam Oakleaf. ( and Lucy the mascot dog)  ;)
This was very interesting and is really an asset to this community that we have this tool and the people who have learned to use it. Derek handed it to me and I couldn't hardly lift it! it is THAT heavy. I heard him tell Danny Signer afterwords," you hold this thing and cut a car down like we just did and it's a hell of a work out". By the sweat that was soaking them afterwards I believe it!
Would be a work out for me to  even get it up to the door to cut. :P

Afterwords ice cream was being served to a long line by our own Indy Gal...She and her helper was scooping as fast as they could... and looks to me like there wasn't anyone complaining about the job they were doing either. Yummy!

The kiddies got to play on all the blowup stuff. That looked like so much fun. If no one had of looked at me funny..I would have loved to be right on those with the kids sliding down..  ;D

Anyway.. hope you enjoy the pictures.. :)

What a great slide show...Please, post more of them!  :laugh: :laugh:

The pictures were great, Teresa.  Thanks for posting them.  I recognized two people, your Mother and Dad, both "lookin' good!"

Quote from: Diane Amberg on July 19, 2009, 08:55:20 PM
Thanks Teresa. Kids, balloons, horses and nice clean sparkly fire equipment on a beautiful day. What more does a good parade need?
You are very right about the Hurst tool. It is very heavy but a wonderful thing to have. Makes short work of getting someone out of a crumpled car.

Other than that clown lady with the balloons that looks like I missed a great parade.

David

Awesome! And it really has not been all that long since Elk County got their first 'jaws of life'. These are essential tools for the small group of volunteer fireman that Elk County has. Thank you to each and every one of them. And thank you to all emergency personell in Elk County. You just never know when they will be needed.

Quote from: Teresa on July 19, 2009, 07:32:35 PM
... The kiddies got to play on all the blowup stuff. That looked like so much fun. If no one had of looked at me funny..I would have loved to be right on those with the kids sliding down..  ;D ...

Teresa, that's great.  Mary Dunn (Sara Griesel's mom) asked me why I hadn't slid down it yet... she said Sara was going to  ;D  We should have all got together and given folks another reason to go to the fair!

Wait just a second --- I wanna go too.!!!

Sounds good Jo! It's a date.... sometime next July  ;D

Many, many thanks, Teresa, for posting these pictures, and for taking pictures for me (not of me!) during the ice cream frenzy...!! LOL Wasn't that an awesome turnout for a Sunday afternoon? My helper was Sally Morgan and her amazing Pampered Chef ice cream scoop. She was able to serve twice as many with that magic scoop of hers.

I'm so grateful to Christy Tyler for letting us use that tent. What a difference that made! Also, everyone involved with the Jaws of Life demo did a great job, and was appreciated by everyone who saw it.

Once the lines for ice cream dwindled, I turned around to see Julia Fechter scaling one of the inflatables then dashing across and over a hurdle. It looked like she was having a blast, and I don't think she was chasing after Wyatt either!

No actually many of the adults themselves had has much fun as the kiddos!!  David Griesel was a hoot to watch go down the slides and things.  Richard and Julia Fechter, Sarah Griesel, Bobbie Wiseman,  J.B.  and Kenda Cannon, and many others adults were taking advantage of the inflatables!!  I know that Sarah got many good pictures of all the kids young and old.  This was a wonderful thing that was put on by Elk Konnected!!  Way to Go Elk Konnect!!!

I loved the wind turbine in the parade with the sign: "The answer is ... blowing in the wind."

Hope that thought catches on.