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Do vou ever feel like there is
too much focus on what is
wrong with vouth today. Here
is vour chance to come and see
what youth are doing well. The
fair Awards Program, Satur
day, August 20, at 4:30 p.m. is
a must for4-M Youth, parents,
leaders and anyone that enjovs
young people.
The 4-H and FFA awards are
given during the awards
ceremony, as well as the Open
Class Creative Hands Award.
"It is always fun to see who
wins the traditional "Grand
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trailers w eren't prevalent the courthouse lawn during
then. Rodeo directors, in rodeo. During the years that
cluding Harlon McCurdy and the family participated, she
Lee Beckner, usually rodeo was active in club events and
with the courts.
playdays while serving as an
"I'm not the first ex-court officer and board member.
For many years she show
mom to have a daughter and
grnddaughter become court ed horses at the fair's open
members," she says. But she horse show that began in 1947
is the first 'ex' to have a son managed by the Wrangler
win the Morrow' County Club. She also helped coor
amateur calf roping saddle dinate the open and 4-H horse
shows. And she has officiated
at many horse shows as a 4-H
when he was 16.
For many years the family horse judge.
She has been a fair com-
showed a string of purebred
cattle at fairs as the Robinson mitte member and secretary
children also competed in 4-H and she served 10 years on
and FFA livestock events. the fair board. She says it was
Merlyn was a 4-H horse club a rew arding experience as one
leader for 20 years, w'hich she of many volunteers who con
says was an opportunity to tribute their time to pro
learn along with young peo gressively improving fairs and
ple and to appreciate the rodeos.
Morrow County is a great
rewards of these youth pro
grams. The Robinsons are also place to live, an added incen
honorary Heppner FFA tive to w rite about its people
Chapter members
and events as a jounalist, she
As a charter member of the claims--an activity that she
Wranglers Riding Club, she has pursued for the past 10
said they developed a drill years. "A nd it's exciting to
team that traveled to other note how fairs and rodeos
places. She also organized the have been upgraded over the
first cow boy breakfast put on years, all a part of our history
bv the club that was held on and heritage,” she says.
This year's 1994 Morrow
County Fair Premium Book
was dedicated to Merlyn
Robinson, a native daughter.
She grew' up on ranches of
her parents, Merle and Altha
Kirk. Follow ing her Heppner
High School graduation dur
ing World War II she attend
ed Oregon State University,
then known as the 'Cow
College.'
Merlyn and her husband,
Donald, are the parents of
three children, Kirk, Kyle and
Krvann Parham. They have
three grandchildren. The
Robinsons continue to live on
the Sandhollow century farm
that was homesteaded by her
M mother's parents, the M.J.
Devins.
"Fair and rodeo have
always held a special place in
mv heart,” Merlyn savs. It's
the opportunity to showcase
what Morrow County pro-
< duces. "Though fairs once
were mainly livestock and
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day's oustanding exhibits by
local artisans continue to amaze
me," she says.
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As a youngster, she says
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she never missed the oppor
tunity to be in the fair and
rodeo parade, often riding a
3 ® f t
horse to town. Role models
were former court members,
including an older sister,
Evelyn Broun. Fairs and
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then, she recalls. Court horses
were trucked to a few' outside
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Development agent Carol
Michael-Bennett. "I encourage
family, neighbors and friends
of 4-H members to attend the
awards program and con
gratulate youth for their par
ticipation in the 1994 Morrow
County Fair.”
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spokesperson.
"Everv youth that plans to
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