State Fair Highlights

Mary Loftis

Personal Column

Mary Loftis

UNL Extension Assistant

mloftis2@unl.edu

September 4, 2013

State Fair Special Recognition Highlights

The Nebraska State Fair passed mostly as a very hot and humid memory, but thankfully the final weekend tempered weather-wise. But the weather wasn’t the only hot thing going on in Grand Island…our Burt County 4-H members were pretty HOT too!

Special recognition certificates highlighting some area of excellence in the particular exhibit were given to six of our 4-H members for nine entries. Included in this list are:

Michael Bracht of West Point on his Robot Programming Notebook. It was recognized for “Clear purpose and the project having baseplate and instructions for display.”

Leia Farrens of Tekamah for her Community Service Activity. The exhibit was a poster highlighting how she decorated themed Christmas trees in the Burt County Museum for 6 years.

Greta Lindberg of Tekamah received two Special Recognition Certificates. One was for the Service Quilt she made for Cancer awareness with flip flop sandals having the different colored cancer awareness ribbon colors as the toe piece on the flip flops. She was noted for her design idea.

Greta’s second special recognition was for her Clothing Level II shorts and top for excellent top stitching.

Brent Miller of Lyons also received two special recognition certificates. One was for his rocket, noting it was an “outstanding exhibit in all aspects.”

His second recognition is even more special as it comes with a $100 special cash award from the Nebraska Rural Electric Association. This was for his electric supply toolkit which was the Top Exhibit in the Class.

Layne Miller of Lyons was recognized for his model rocket for “Great paint and decals.”

Nick Bohannon of Tekamah was recognized in two special presentation contest areas. He gave a presentation on robots in the Premiere Presentation Division and received a $50 cash award from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture. In addition he entered the brand new Teaching Presentation Division and was named one of the top two presenters and received a $25 cash award from Farm Credit Services of America.

Jenna Bromm of Oakland had a highlight experience in the livestock arena when she earned Reserve Grand Champion honors in the Senior Division of the 4-H Swine Showmanship Contest.

In other livestock highlights Madisen Durre of Craig showed the Reserve Champion Middleweight Meat Goat.

Britney Stevenson of Oakland showed the Champion Meat Breed Breeding Ewe, while her sister Rylee had the Reserve Champion All Other Breeds Market Lamb.

Layne Miller of Lyons showed the Champion White Faced Market Lamb.

We are very proud of all our 4-H members and how they and their exhibits did at the State Fair. Hopefully I didn’t miss anyone on the special recognition list because all our 4-H members are special to me and I want to highlight their accomplishments in every way.

This lengthy list of special recognition and awards just shows how HOT our 4-H members were at the state fair this year, hopefully they don’t cool off too long before starting another successful 4-H year.

Mary Loftis,

Extension Assistant
UNL Extension – Burt County
111 North 13th Street, Suite 6
Tekamah, NE 68061
Phone: (402) 374-2929

Fax: (402) 374-2930

Internet: mloftis2@unl.edu