SANDERSON – The 29th Annual County Fair took in a record of at least $14,060 in sales of animals, arts and crafts and other items
at auction and some donations Saturday.
County Agent Mark Carroll said some other donations are expected, which could increase the
total somewhat.
The 28th Annual Terrell County Fair last year took in $7,000 in the sale of animals shown by area exhibitors, down
from $8,975 in 2006.
The record year was in 2005 when auction buyers left $11,450 in the pockets of area young people.
In some years,
officials counted total receipts. In other years, it was only animal sales. But this year appears to be a record in any event.
Auctioneer
Kenn Norris said things are looking up for the county.
When the railroad left in 1996, it was a bad day for Sanderson but “I see some things happening,” Norris said.
He mentioned the Dos Lobos eight-unit housing project one block north officially begun just a week
before and other indications economic recovery is on the way.
“I see things happening right now that we haven’t seen before,” he said.
“An investment in these kids gives them hope and a vision for the future.”
The Grand Champion meat goat was shown by Brandee Stegall
for her brother Shawn who was out sick. It brought in $600 at auction.
Brandee also showed her own Reserve Champion meat goat, which sold for $525, and took home the showmanship award as well.
The Grand
Champion lamb shown by Jacob Helmers brought in $600.
Doodle Odgers showed the Grand Champion rabbit, which sold for $475.
His sister
Eliza had the Reserve Champion rabbit, which sold for $375.
Doodle sold his first place pheasants for $500 and sister Eliza showed
the first place guinea hens, which brought in $400.
In the ever-popular Pee Wee category, Wyatt Mills got $450 for his goat, Otto Turner,
Kailey Dominguez and Elijah Carrasco each took home $500 and Luke Carroll and Hunter Truesdell each received $525.
Luke Carroll sold
his Pee Wee rabbit for $500, twin sister Lauryn got $525 and Michelle Cobos and Elijah Carrasco each got $550.
Children eight and younger
compete in “Pee Wee” categories. They raise animals donated by ranchers but do not keep the animal.
In other action, Shyanne Mills’ second place meat goat sold for $425, Dryden Baker’s second place meat goat brought $450 and Cordell
Lawson got $450 for his third place meat goat.
Abby Carrasco sold her third place rabbit for $400 and brother Joey Carrasco got $400
for his fourth place rabbit.
Pecos County State Bank provided a check to each child showing an animal and Hargrove Insurance of Rotan
gave each exhibitor $50.
SANDERSON – The “fund balance” for the Terrell County Independent School district last year was up nearly 1,200 percent from $24,000
the year before to $309,712 last year.
That was part of the findings in the Annual Financial Report for the year ended Aug. 31 last
year.
The “fund balance,” which amounts to the school’s savings account, was negative in recent years and a source of considerable
concern, bringing unsatisfactory reports from state auditing agencies.
“This is a clean opinion,” auditor Tracy B. Tarter, CPA, of
Fort Worth told the school board Tuesday before the board unanimously accepted it.
“There are no compliance issues,” he said.
“A lot
of the credit goes to the superintendent [Gary Hamilton], the business manager [Blain Chriesman] and to the staff for holding the
line on the budget,” School Board President Ada Lee Robbins said. “All of us on the board of trustees appreciate it.”
Tarter said the
district’s net assets increased by $420,543 last year.
“During the year, the district had expenses that were $420,543 less than the
$11,889,783 generated in tax and other revenues for governmental programs (before special items),” the report said. “This compares
to last year when expenses were less than revenues by $219,346.”
Of the $11.8 million in total revenues, the report said TCISD sent
$8.1 million to other school districts under the state’s so-called “Robin Hood” financing scheme, designed to equalize funding among
the state’s school districts.
Total net assets for the district in the report were $797,520.
Tarter said the effects of the $14 million
school bond issue, approved by the voters in May, did not show up in the audit for the year ended in August because the first bonds
were not sold until September.
He said those numbers would show up in the audit next year.
The increase in the fund balance represented
a 180-degree change in the district’s financial position, Tarter said. “This is a huge positive change.”
He called the report “very
positive.”
In other action the board agreed to change a decision made at the meeting last week to buy a Chevrolet Tahoe to replace
the existing Tahoe.
Robbins said the board was quoted a figure for the “base price” of the Tahoe when it went through the Texas Association
of School Boards’ “Buy Board” program.
When the actual cost came in, it was considerably higher than quoted.
The Board agreed to buy
a Ford Expedition through the same agency.
Robbins said Hamilton “is a Chevrolet man” but Stockton Ford has provided good service on
the district’s Ford products.
SANDERSON – There are not many Republicans in Terrell County but it appears those who want to vote in the March 4 Republic Primary
will not be able to do so.
County Elections Administrator Martha Allen said the Democratic Party contacted her office last summer to
set up the Democratic Primary.
No Republican representative contacted her and she had to “initiate” contact herself.
She said the Republican
Party of Texas told her finding a chairman was a local responsibility.
She said the person she spoke to asked her if she could be the
Republican chairman.
Allen said as elections administrator she could not hold that job. And she is on the Democratic ballot for re-election
to District/County Clerk.
Hans Klinger, a spokesman for RPT, said finding a county chairman in smaller, rural counties is not always
easy.
“We are working hard every day to try to find someone,” he said. “In a place like Terrell County, it is incredibly important
that Republicans have a foothold.
“The problem is finding that perfect person,” he said. “People think it’s just a title, that they
can be chairman sort of there in name only.
“We are trying our dead level best every day,” he said.
Klinger was asked how that comment
squared with the fact that no one had contacted Terrell County and the elections administrator had to initiate contact with the party.
He
said there are other groups involved in finding local chairs.
“The Executive Committee is another body,” he said “There are two members
in each senate district.”
He also referred a caller to the County Chairmen’s Association.
“That’s part of their basket of responsibilities,”
he said.
Klinger said there are “probably 10 or 12 other counties with no chairman or there is a very fluid situation from one cycle
to the other.”
With 254 counties in Texas, it is a “huge problem” getting county chairs for each of them, he said.
A major part of the
problem is the paper work required of a county chairman, something the Texas Legislature has mandated by law.
Many who might step up
to serve are unable because of the time required to do the job.
SANDERSON – “We would spend more money there with our crews and our clients but services and opportunities are low or nil.”
This was
one comment quoted from guides and outfitters about Sanderson in a survey on tourism.
Keith Godwin, regional coordinator for the Texas
Pecos Trails Region, told the Chamber of Commerce Monday a lack of services here and a failure to communicate what is here are costing
the community tourism dollars “that would benefit everybody.”
She said travelers in the survey noted a reluctance to put Sanderson
on a travel itinerary because the Visitor Center is not open on a Saturday.
“It is closed when we stop in the afternoon on the way
to Del Rio or Big Bend so we keep moving,” she said some travelers have told her.
She said tourists have said Sanderson “is a nice
place to refresh but there is not really any reason to stop for a while and enjoy the area or stay the night.”
Godwin said tourists
in Texas spend $140 million daily and rural Texas is the “number one leisure destination.”
Tourism revenue generated $2.3 billion in
state taxes and $770 million in local taxes last year.
“This is money you, the taxpayer, do not have to come up with,” she said. “That’s
one of the numbers we tend to overlook – the tax relief.”
She said 60,000 travelers a year pass through the Judge Roy Bean Center in
Langtry, 60 miles southeast of Sanderson and virtually all of them pass through Sanderson either before or after stopping at Langtry.
“The
Visitor Center there is the best friend you have,” Godwin said. “They want to send people to Sanderson but they never know what’s
open and when.”
She said is it vital that businesses have regular hours and that those hours be communicated to the outside world for
tourism to develop.
“It’s not about changing the town,” she said. “It’s about having a better quality of life.”
Godwin said Sanderson
is “the natural stop for visitors.”
It has “location, location, location,” she said.
There is a lot of environmental and historic heritage
in Sanderson and it has the “Texas Mystique.”
The area is blessed with “gorgeous natural beauty” and is a draw for tourists with its
wildlife photography opportunities, ranching, oil, Independence Creek and Fort Lancaster nearby.
“You are the hub of so much you don’t
realize,” she said. “The history in your community is known throughout the state.”
She said there are several websites and magazines
that can tell the Sanderson story to tourists planning their trips.
She suggested the chamber create a Destination Management Organization
to supply items including events calendars to the various websites and magazines.
Lea Hawn agreed to serve as the county’s DMO.
Godwin
said the trail region can help with website development, print projects, media relations, trade show events and advertising.
There
are 22 counties in the region.
“These are your partners,” she said. “You can all work together for the betterment of all.”
DRYDEN – A 75-year old Albuquerque man was killed in a one-vehicle accident here about 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The Texas Department of Public
Safety told the News Leader Ben J. Yancy was eastbound on US Highway 90 when he got to Dryden.
For some reason, the pickup went off
the road and hit a highway sign. The driver overcorrected and the vehicle rolled four times, throwing the driver out.
He landed about
120 feet from the vehicle. Yancy was alone in the vehicle at the time.
“Speed was a factor,” Department of Public Safety Trooper Flavio
Ybarra said. The speed limit of 75 miles per hour on the highway goes to 50 mph through Dryden.
Justice of the Peace Corina Castro
pronounced Yancy dead at the scene at 1:40 p.m. and the body was taken to Memorial Funeral Home in Fort Stockton.
SANDERSON – Sanderson High School’s Varsity Lady Eagles ran with the ball all four quarters and beat the Marathon Lady Mustangs by
26 points with a score of 58 to 32 Tuesday.
Senior Hannah Black dominated the court with a whopping 26 points to lead the ladies to
a victory.
Following her was senior Jenny Hernandez with ten, sophomores Sarah Sivils with eight, Vicky Busch with six, freshman Noemi
Nuñez added five, sophomore Blakeney Chriesman had two and freshman Julianna Castro put in one.
The Lady Mustangs played a hard game
in the losing effort. Marisol Aguilar was high scorer with ten.
Following her was Memi Lara and Celestine Garcia with seven each, Prissy
Hernandez added four and adding two apiece were Crystal Ybarra and Victoria Zimmerman.
Last week, the Varsity Eagle boys, missing three
starters, came out second best to the Fort Davis Indians Junior Varsity Friday.
The Eagles game with Valentine was cancelled so they
traveled to Fort Davis.
The Eagles played a hard four quarters but lost by three points, 25 to 22.
Tying for high scorer for the Eagles
were sophomore Darren Seidel and freshman Cordell Lawson with eight each.
Following them was sophomore Travis Roberts with six and
freshman Kelly Lomas with one free throw.
The Eagle varsity teams face off with Grandfalls here tonight, Feb. 1. First tip off will
be at 6:30 p.m.
SANDERSON – The Sanderson Junior High Eagles hosted Rankin here, Monday, sending the Red Devils home
victorious by a score of 30 to 10.
Sharing top scoring position for the young Eagles were Robert Montalvo and Jalen Chriesman with
three each.
Following them were Taylor Roberts and Daniel Luevano with two each.
ALPINE – TRIO program participants will celebrate National TRIO Day tomorrow, Feb. 2, at Sul Ross State University here.
Students
from Sanderson, Marathon, Alpine, Balmorhea, Fort Stockton, Grandfalls, Imperial, Marfa, Pecos, Presidio, Sierra Blanca, Terlingua,
Valentine and Van Horn will have lunch on campus, hear a presentation from Commandoes USA and see women’s and men’s basketball games
between Sul Ross and McMurry University at the Gallego Center.
Door prizes will be offered.
“This event will honor the students who
have succeeded in college with the support of the nation’s TRIO programs as well as present participants,” said Zaide Cabezuala, director
of the Sul Ross Talent Search program.
TRIO grants at Sul Ross presently fund Upward Bound, Talent Search, Student Support Services,
McNair and Gear-Up programs.
Since 1965, more than 10.5 million Americans, 67 percent from poor and working families, have benefited
from the services of the TRIO pre-college and the college programs.
EDITOR’S NOTE – Melissa Cruz, June 8, 1990, to February 1, 2007, was killed in an auto accident a year ago today. The family asked
her brother Carlos Cruz to submit this memorial in her name.
Dear Missy,
The hardest day of our life came on Feb. 1, 2007,
when we found out you were no longer with us.
Our world was turned inside out and it seemed like we would not be able to get through.
It is hard to believe that it has been a year since you passed. We sit around wondering where has the time gone because it feels like
only yesterday we saw your pretty face and heard your goofy laugh.
There is not a day that goes by that we don’t laugh or cry
about one of the many things you did. It is very hard to cope with you being gone but we are getting by.
Mom and Dad are doing
well but they still can’t face the fact that you are gone.
Grandma Luz tries to be strong but tears come to her eyes every time
she hears your name.
As for me, it is very tough to believe that you are gone but I have managed to accomplish a few goals for you.
I know that when times are tough for the family, you are right there by our side.
We will never forget you, Missy, because you
were the light of our life and now our guardian angel.
Love you, sis.
Carlos Cruz
Odessa
By KIM RAPP
News Leader Production Manager
SANDERSON – Visitors to town over the weekend included Bradley & Tamisha Crawford from
Kermit.
Tagging along on the trip were charges four-year-old Jr. and J.D., who is two.
They were here to visit cousin Dohnavon Anaya and
extended family.
Abel Luevano will be leaving soon. He will be heading for Artesia, NM, next month where he has been accepted into
the Border Patrol Academy.
His plan is to finish in April and “hopefully” be stationed in Alpine.
The SHS graduate of ’04 is the son
of Abel & Rosalinda Luevano.
AUSTIN – With the registration deadline Monday, Feb. 4, to vote in the upcoming Primary Elections, the secretary of state’s office
has launched a new web tool, which enables Texans to check their registration status online.
The new “Online Voter Central”
web portal also allows individuals to determine their polling place as Election Day nears and provides contact information for local
county voter registration officials.
“We are doing our part to ensure that voters are prepared and fully-equipped when they show up
to vote on Election Day,” Secretary of State Phil Wilson said.
With the implementation of the Texas Election Administration Management
system, the secretary of state’s office now maintains a “uniform, official, centralized, interactive, computerized statewide voter
registration list” as mandated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Texans who registered to vote using their driver license
will be able to check their status using their driver license number.
All other Texans can enter their Voter Unique Identifier
found on their voter registration card to check their voting status and find polling locations.
“As we begin a busy 2008 election season,
I hope all Texans will recognize their rights and duties to head to the polls on Election Day,” Wilson said. “We are faced with some
important decisions as we determine new leaders for our nation and our state and my office is committed to making the elections process
accessible and easy for Texans in every region of the Lone Star State.”
Voter registration applications are available on the secretary
of state’s website at www.sos.state.tx.us as well as county Voter Registrar’s offices and most libraries, post offices and high schools.
MARFA – After a public hearing here last week on a proposed wall along the US-Mexico border, the US Border Patrol is mulling its options.
The Secure Border Initiative of 2006, the prime legislation fueling the federal government’s intent to construct security fences along the border, including Presidio/Ojinaga, continues it’s path toward a final decision.
After the Environmental Assessment – public hearing
last week in Marfa at the Paisano Hotel and the protest rally that started off the proceedings, Public Affairs Officer Bill Brooks
of the Border Patrol Marfa Sector advised that a final decision on the wall construction will come soon.
“We are collating the information
generated from the Environmental Assessment last week in Marfa with other EA meetings along the border into a final report that will
arrive at Customs and Border Protection in Washington DC soon,” Brooks said.
“If funding is available, construction will begin perhaps
as early as this spring,” he said.
Who will make the final decision was not exactly clear.
“I assume it will be made at the commissioners
level,” Brooks said. “There is a commission formed for this particular project. Or it is possible that the final decision will come
from [Homeland Security] Secretary [Michael] Chertoff.”
To date there has been no wall construction at the border except at a test
site in Arizona in the Tucson Sector.
However there has been installation of technology along the border designed to assist the Border
Patrol guard the border in all sectors along the US-Mexico frontier.
Boeing is the prime contractor providing the technology under
a Secure Border Initiative, a comprehensive plan to gain operational control of the borders through the integration of increased staffing,
interior enforcement, detection technology and infrastructure and coordination on federal, state, local and international levels.
“The idea is not to design new technology but to take off the shelf technology and use it to meet our needs,” Brooks said.
PECOS – Pecos River landowners will have a chance to comment on the second draft of the Watershed Protection Plan for the Pecos River
this month.
Texas AgriLife Extension Service Eco-system Science and Management Assistant Will Hatler of Stephenville said landowner
involvement is imperative for the success of the voluntary river management project.
Hatler also is the project’s coordinator.
He
said the project’s objective is to facilitate a strictly voluntary, landowner-driven effort to maintain or improve the Texas section
of the Pecos River as needed.
“The revised version of the plan includes changes suggested by landowners who participated in the first
comment period,” Hatler said. “The reason for this second comment period is to be sure comments and suggestions made on the first
draft of the plan have been adequately addressed.”
Meetings will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Feb.19 at the Pecos Civic Center, 2 to 4 p.m.
that day at the Imperial Community Center, 9 to 11 a.m. at the Iraan Community Center, from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb.20 at the Crockett County
Extension Office in Ozona and 9 to 11 a.m. Feb. 21 at the Dink Wardlaw Ag Complex in Del Rio.
Hatler said the draft plan, a summary
of changes made, and a condensed executive summary of the plan will be available for download beginning Jan. 7 at the website, http://pecosbasin.tamu.edu.
A
draft is also available from Choyia Holley at 254-968-4144 or Cholley@ag.tamu.edu .
Comments can also be submitted on the project’s
Web site through March 10.
The Pecos River Basin drains all or part of Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett,
Culberson, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Terrell, Upton, Val Verde, Ward and Winkler counties.
Collaborators
on the project include landowners, Extension, Texas Soil and Water Conservation Boards and Districts, Texas AgriLife Research (formerly
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station), Texas Water Resources Institute and the US International Boundary and Water Commission.
Funding
for the project is being provided by the Environmental Protection Agency through the Texas Soil and Water Conservation Board.
TOWNSEND, MT – Lois Colby Magdall was born in Kalispell, MT, in 1941, moved to Townsend and remains there today.
Lois is the sister
of Loretta Marsicano of Sanderson.
After raising two children and a Crow Indian girl, she hit the road with husband Ken in his truck and traveled across the country and into Canada.
She also dabbled in construction and driving the big rig herself.
After a back injury,
Magdall turned to art.
She was into watercolors and oil paints but when she met a Umatilla Indian, she knew where her love of art would
lie.
She discovered powdered paints and was taught how to paint on buckskin.
The elderly Indian woman wanted her technique to live on
after she was gone.
Magdall has exhibited her works of art all over including, Las Vegas, Ennis around Montana.
Though she is mostly
self-taught through experimenting and lots of reading with a few workshops here and there, she has recently taken courses with Diana
Neville Knowels in Kalispell and has found the desire she was looking for in painting portraits.
She loves the intensity and the ability
to make people come to life, she said.
Sister Loretta recalls her sister being “creative” when they were young, “always drawing on
something,” she said.
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today issued a state disaster proclamation for 152 of the state’s 254 counties in response to the threat
posed by wildfires rapidly spreading in areas across the state.
Terrell County was not listed among the counties but every county
around Terrell were included.
A spokesman for the governor’s office said the list of counties is “fluid” and likely to change on a
daily basis.
It is based on “conference calls” with the counties involved.
Burn bans are already in place in the Texas counties on the
list. Terrell County approved a 90-day limited burn ban Jan. 14.
The disaster designation allows affected counties to be eligible for
state assistance.
“I urge Texans to exercise extreme caution as conditions remain favorable for the development of wildfires across
the state,” Perry said. “Vigilance and good judgment are key to ensuring Texans’ families, homes and places of work remain safe.”
High
winds and lack of precipitation have dried grass and other vegetation across the state, posing significant fire danger.
To address
the potential threat, seven Texas Military Forces utility helicopters have been activated and are stationed in Austin, San Antonio
and Dallas/Forth Worth and one CH-47 helicopter is currently on standby in DFW area.
The Texas Department of Transportation is providing
fuel for Volunteer Fire Department personnel and assisting in suppressing the fires.
BIG BEND – The Big Bend Natural History Association’s annual Pioneer Reunion tomorrow, Feb. 2, will feature some of the best story
tellers in the area talking about the original settlers of the Big Bend country.
The crowd will gather in the Starlight Theatre in
Terlingua to hear ranchers, their descendants and a contemporary border activist and historian of early settlers tell tales of the
frontier.
Speakers include Wesley Rice, son of Frederick and Nellie Rice, speaking on the Rice family in the Big Bend.
Others include
Betty Baker, daughter of long-time Big Bend Ranchers Ray and Clarice Ogle, Ghost Town historian and current border activist Cynta
de Narvaez, founder of the La Historia gathering in Terlingua, Marathon rancher Ike Roberts and Bill Dodson of the Dodson Ranch family.
Rice
has done extensive research on the Rice family in the Big Bend.
Baker is reputed to be one of the best storytellers of the early
days of ranching in this country and she will sign her new book, “Fun and Games Through Depression and War.”
De Narvaez will speak
on three subjects, the history of the Terlingua Ghost Town, the development of the La Historia gathering in Terlingua and her efforts,
along with other local activists, to provide relief to our neighbors in the Mexican villages of Santa Elena and Boquillas since the
border closure.
Roberts is an area rancher and raconteur who will tell of his family’s early history in the area.
Dodson
has been brought back for the second time by popular demand. He will be assisted by Dr. Chet Sample of Sul Ross State University,
who has collected stories and photos of Bill’s early history in the Big Bend.
Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and break up around 4 p.m.,
depending on how many questions the audience wants answered.
Tickets are $20 per person, $18 for members of BBNHA, and include
a fajitas lunch cooked by the Starlight Theatre kitchen.
Seats can be reserved by calling BBNHA at 432/477-2236 with a credit
card number.
WASHINGTON, DC – Monday, Feb. 4, is the deadline for a response to the 2007 Census of Agriculture from the National Agricultural Statistics
Service.
US Rep. Ciro Rodriguez said the survey “is crucial to the future of farming and ranching in your community and across the
United States.
“Critical information is collected through the Census of Agriculture every five years and every participating farmer
and rancher has the chance to make his or her mark on the agricultural industry in America,” Rodriguez said.
He said the
census provides the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every county in the nation.
“Through the census, producers
can show the nation the value and importance of agriculture and they can help influence decisions that will shape the future of American
agriculture for years to come,” he said. “Census of agriculture data is used by all those who serve farmers and rural communities
– federal, state and local governments, agribusinesses, trade associations and many others.”
He said it is critical that the
information collected is accurate so officials can serve their communities with programs tailored to the region’s specific needs.
The answers to the census questions provide Congress with the tools they need to determine whether the effective agricultural programs
to offer their constituents.
Legislators and local authorities often rely on past census data to target important services to rural
areas and the US Department of Agriculture uses the information to prioritize staffing at local service centers.
“Many farmers and
ranchers also use the data to make informed decisions about the future of their own businesses,” Rodriguez said. “Filling out
this questionnaire puts every American farmer on the map for agricultural data and agricultural assistance programs and ensures that
they are accurately represented when decisions are being made regarding agriculture resources and policies.
This year, for the first
time, the survey can be completed on line by going to www.agcensus.nass.usda.gov.
By ELIZA ODGERS
4-H Reporter
SANDERSON – It was a warm and sunny day for the County Fair Saturday.
There were seven pee wee goats, 11
goats, 11 lambs, four rabbits, four pee wee rabbits, three guineas, one chicken, two pheasants, four horses and one donkey.
The kids
were under control but, unfortunately, the animals were not.
We had a rabbit, pheasant and a goat get loose. Doodle Odgers had a crazy
goat that wouldn’t quit baaing.
There was a great turnout of 11 4-Hers in the fair categories.
In the pre-teen color photo category,
the participants were Abby Carrasco, Grace Jahn and Mason Blackmon. Grace got first and second places and Mason got third.
In teen
color photos, the participants were Kelly Lomas, Doodle Odgers and me.
Doodle got first place, Kelly got second place and I got third.
In
black and white photos, Grace got first, I won second, and Abby Carrasco received third.
In sewing, Grace got first and I got second
and third.
In fine arts, Grace won first place, Doodle got second and I received third.
In food, Grace got first, Mason won second and
I got third. Doodle also participated in the food event but did not place.
In teen woodwork, Dryden Baker got first, I received second
and Doodle got third.
Grace won first place in the pre-teen woodwork contest. Shyanne Mills got second and Jacob Helmers got third.
Pee wees were Hunter Truesdell and Michelle Cobos. Hunter got first and Michelle took second.
We would like to thank the people who
were at the auction for making donations to the 4H.