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Wednesday, August 10, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Cloverdale Livestock Club shines at Deschutes County Fair
By Kathryn godsiff
Correspondent
The Deschutes County
Fair, held last week in
Redmond, is a major event for
members of the Cloverdale
Livestock Club. This 4-H
club is based in Sisters, with
members from Sisters and
Redmond. They pitched tents,
parked travel trailers, and
shared successes, challenges
and food over the course of
the week.
Most of the 21 club mem-
bers show sheep in various
classes. Two members had
pigs and one had a sheep and
a goat, making for many trips
to the various livestock barns
at the fairgrounds. During the
4-H show, the young people
are the ones in charge. Parents
and club leaders are strictly
hands-off when it comes to
prepping the animals for the
show ring and keeping the
barns spiffy.
Pam Mitchell has been
leading the club for nearly 30
years, before her own children
were able to participate. The
fair has been a part of her life
for as long as she can remem-
ber. Mitchell is a daughter of
the Cyrus family of Sisters
and was an active member
of the Cloverdale Livestock
Club all through her 4-H
years. This year she was
assisted by Nathan Hunt, who
has finished his 4-H career but
came back to lend his exper-
tise to younger members.
“That’s the beauty of 4-H,
the older kids helping the
younger ones. It’s a perpetual
mentoring program,” said
Mitchell. Hunt agreed that
his time in 4-H and in raising
livestock taught him responsi-
bility and some solid leader-
ship skills.
Rod and Tracy Johnson
have two sons, Bailey (18)
and Aaron (15). They’ve
noticed changes in the boys
through their involvement in
4-H.
“It’s really rewarding to
see them develop and gain
confidence in what they’re
doing,” said Tracy.
A walk through the live-
stock barns, ripe with the
smells of summer and ani-
mals, provides opportunity
to watch and interact with
youths who are focused,
cheerful, and committed to
their animals. The barn aisles
are swept clean, the pens
are tidy and the animals are
calm. Each club adorns their
area with décor expressing
the culture of the club. The
first three days of the fair are
showing days, culminating in
the Saturday auction of the
market animals.
Mitchell said the club did
very well in the show ring,
with many blue ribbons and
several supreme and reserve
champions in the sheep sec-
tion. Over in the swine barn,
Tanner Pease and Sydney
Salomone were enjoying their
first year of showing pigs,
after having sheep projects for
several years.
There are classes for mar-
ket animals, sold at an auction
on Saturday of the fair, and
for production animals, used
for breeding. Mitchell was
particularly pleased with the
results from the production
classes, with several members
receiving championship rib-
bons for sheep they had bred
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photo by pam mitChell
cloverdale Livestock club did very well at the fair last week. Pictured are Elizabeth Moss (holding ribbons), Jordan
ortiz, Noah Keeton, sam Mitchell, Judah Keeton, stacey Estrada, and Judge clint cummings from california.
themselves.
ribbons were procured, a little kids get excited about
An additional feature, for judge was found and a happy 4-H, and this gives them a
the tiny showmen, is Peewee gang of little kids had a fun jump-start.”
Showmanship, open to tod- morning.
From the looks on the
dlers through 7-year-olds.
“I’m very grateful for the faces of participants both
Cloverdale Livestock Club 4-H kids who offered their young and experienced, 4-H
alumnus Awbrey (Cyrus) lambs,” said Gaines. “It’s livestock at the fair looks set
Gaines and Annette (Smith) extremely important that for many more happy times.
McAvan took the reins of
the event at the last minute.
On Friday night they started
a sign-up sheet that made
the rounds of the sheep barn,
and by Saturday morning 20
young children had signed up.
Then, 4-H kids started show-
ing up with their gentle mar-
ket lambs and goats, offering
them to the little ones and
helping the kids show the ani-
mals. (See photo, page 25.)
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