FLORIDA FAIR NEWS …….....……………….…………………………………..
Clay County Agricultural Fair- “Cowbells & Carousels”
even though we were down 8 % in total attendance. We set the following new daily
We enjoyed another successful Fair! We set new records again records: Sunday
(14,085), Wednesday
(10,093), and the second Thursday (12,450). Total attendance was 98,138. Our livestock exhibit was again a popular destination. The 4-H/ FFA Youth Livestock Sale produced $200,980 for 99 local 4-H and FFA students to help with their college fund. Average price per pound for swine was $6.68 and $2.86 for steers. Competitive exhibits totaled 3,140 this year. Demonstrations in
Painting & Photography continue to draw crowds. This year we added demonstration in our Home Arts and Horticulture area. Our Going Green effort continues to be successful. Even with our attendance down our recycling of just bottles and cardboard was up 6 %. We again tracked zip codes, 19,309 codes were entered to de-
termine the attendance from out of county. This year 40.2% were from out Clay County. Our out of state guests were up .21%. We appreciate the many visitors this year from our Florida Fairs. You made us feel special. Thanks for coming!
Trenton Kid Donates $27,111 Prize To Teen With Cancer
By Hannah Winston, Correspondent, The Gainesville Sun
Buckshot was raised to be dinner. Or maybe breakfast. Possibly a midnight snack. The 9-month-old hog, with white-spotted black skin, was walked around a ring at the Suwannee Livestock Fair for bidders to decide which part of him they’d like best. His owner, 10-year-old Chandler Beach, made his intentions clear every day as he fed him, watered him and brushed him to be someone’s next meal. What Buckshot didn’t know was that every penny from his 255- pound frame would be donated to a boy with cancer. Chandler, a fourth-grader at Trenton Elementary, decided to
donate all the earnings from his pig to Corbin Wiggins, a Trenton teen with four kinds of cancer. Bids for the pig ended March 30 at $106 per pound. All told, Buckshot’s 255 pounds sold for $27,111. Misty Beach, 34, Chandler’s mother, said when he first told her
he decided what he’d spend the prize money on, she thought she knew what it would be. Maybe a BB gun or a new pair of shoes. Maybe a rope for the rodeo. “I thought it would be something sil- ly,” she said. Chandler is the typical 10-year-old country boy with cowboy dreams, a wild imagination and a strong sense of faith, his mom said.
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