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Grant County Fair
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Opie McDaniel of John Day shows his steer at the Youth Livestock Auction at the Grant County Fair in John Day. McDaniel is with the Juniper Ridge 4-H club.
Kids in the spotlight at livestock auction
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
B
ehind the scenes of Saturday’s
Youth Livestock Auction, FFA
and 4-H kids were busy prepar-
ing their animals for their walk to the
sale barn where buyers were packed
in, ready for bidding wars.
Paige Moore, a Prairie City FFA
member, was getting her York-Hamp
mix pig ready with a little help from
3-year-old Ranger Brown of John
Day who helped her with brushing.
“It’s a good experience and a lot of
work,” said Moore who will be a se-
nior at Prairie City High School soon.
She added that working with her
pig in the family’s back yard has been
a lot of fun as well.
She said she’d been busy during
fair week keeping her pig fed and wa-
tered while also cleaning the pen and
the animal.
She said this is her fourth year
showing livestock, and it was FFA
A friendly lamb looks for company.
Three-year-old Ranger Brown of
John Day watches as Prairie City FFA
member Paige Moore readies her hog
for Saturday’s Youth Livestock Auction.
adviser Lindy Cruise and her parents
who helped her learn the ropes.
When 11-year-old Clyde Holliday
of John Day showed his steer in the sale
barn, the auctioneer John Coote of Pro-
ducers Livestock commented, “You can
tell when a 4-H kid has been working
with their animal,” noting the steer was
pretty obedient.
When Carson McKay of the Prai-
Anahi Gonzalez of Mt.
Vernon moves her hog
back to its pen after
auctioning it off at the
Grant County Fair.
Ranger Brown, 3, of John Day
helps Paige Moore of Prairie
City FFA care for her hog at the
Heritage Barn.
rie City FFA chapter showed his steer,
Coote noted that McKay had recently
been to auctioneer school.
The auctioneer joked that he’ll be
“gone fishing and out of a job in a cou-
ple years.”
“The kids have done a good job and
invested time and money in their an-
imals — give them a hand for doing
that,” he said.
Ty McDaniel of Juniper Ridge 4-H
Club won the Delley Officer Memo-
rial Award for courtesy and sports-
manship, which was given by Scott
Officer.
Receiving awards for the highest
placing animal bred and fed in Grant
County were:
Beef
Exhibitor, Raney Anderson
Breeder, High Desert Cattle Compa-
ny, M.T. and Cori Anderson
Award sponsored by Riverside
Ranch.
Sheep
Exhibitor, Ryan Brown
Breeder, Jackie Osborne and Erika
Dickens
Award sponsored by the Sheppard
Family.
Swine
Exhibitor, Trenton Winegar
Breeder, Darrel and Kim McKrola
Award sponsored by Golden Willow
Ranch, Byron and Carol Ricco Rudis-
hauser Family.
Caller Alec Oliver motions a buyer to the auctioneer at the
Youth Livestock Auction on Saturday at the Sale Barn.
Olive Thunell of Mt.
Vernon watches intently
as fellow 4-H members
show their livestock
animals at the Sale Barn.
L IVESTOCK A UCTION CHAMPIONS
Ryan Brown stands with his Grand
Champion Market Lamb with Brooke
Taynton who is representing Pioneer Feed.
Erika Dickens stands with her Reserve
Champion Market Lamb with buyer
representative Janice Provencher of
Bank of Eastern Oregon.
Kellen Shelley stands with his Grand
Champion Market Steer and Jordyn
Young representing buyer Triangle Oil.
Buyer representative Andrea Moles of
the Bank of Eastern Oregon - Prairie City
stands with Gauge Jenks and his Grand
Champion Goat.
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Buyer representative Jordyn Young for
Timbers Bistro stands with Eric Culley
and his Grand Champion Market Hog.
Buyer Bob CowanThompson of
Chester’s Thriftway stands with Raney
Anderson and her Reserve Champion
Market Steer.
Buyer Bob CowanThompson of Chester’s
Thriftway and Macy Carter and her
Reserve Champion Hog at the 4-H and
FFA Youth Livestock Auction.
Sierra Jenks with her Reserve Champion
Goat. Buyer representative of Thomas
Contracting was not pictured.