Monticello Live

Miss Drew County, Anna Norris was one of three selected to advance from Thursday night’s prelim to the finals on Saturday night. Students Charlee Carter, Bliss Jaggers, and Alex Jones from Monticello Dance Academy won the Dance Group division and Charlee Carter won the Dance Solo division and will represent the Southeast region of the state at the Arkansas State Fair Finals Youth Talent Show on Saturday.

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Nobody cooks like Grandma, and several grandmas are cooking this week, at the EHC Kitchen at the fairgounds.  The annual tradition is a fundraiser for scholarships for local students to attend UAM.

Breakfast includes bacon, eggs, sausage, toast, and biscuits & gravy.

Burgers, hot dogs, chili, and red beans & rice are on the lunch and supper menu.

Listed below are the results of the winnimg floats in the 2013 Drew County Fair Parade.

The parade video is also being posted, overnight.

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Saturday night, the annual Drew County Fair “Miss Drew County” pageant was held at the fairgrounds, with Anna Norris was honored as this year’s Miss Drew County.  Anna also won the interview competition.

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Girls 0-11 month-old ———Boy 0-11 month-old
Winner Laney Strickland —–Casper Samaniego
1st Runner-up Carter Gober ——Aiden Marshall
2nd Runner-up Kailyn Green ——Cason Epting
Photogenic Kailyn Green ——-Jase Ryn Walker
People’s Choice Kailyn Green ——Pierre Adkins

Girl 12-23 month-old ——–Boy 12-23 month-old
Winner Aristyn Miles——————– James Lytle
1st Runner-up Khloe King———- Landon Hawkins
2nd Runner-up Sophia Brigham ———————-
Photogenic Adylin Binns———- Landon Hawkins
People’s Choice Aristyn Miles—– Landon Hawkins

Miss Tot 24-35 month-old –Tiny Miss 36-47 month-old
Winner Paisleigh Thiele—————– Annslee Roberts
1st Runner-up McKenzie Goudy ————-Khya Miller
2nd Runner-up Dailyn Trotter——– Samara Seymour
Photogenic McKenzie Goudy———– Annslee Roberts
People’s Choice Daylyn Trotter——————– ——–

McKinzie Adcock, Aleah Crosswhite, Leah Lytle and Annsley Oltmann

Little Miss 4-5 year-old
Winner - McKinzie Adcock
1st Runner-up – Annsley Oltmann
2nd Runner-up – Leah Lytle
Photogenic – Annsley Oltmann
People’s Choice – Aleah Crosswhite

Allissa Bodiford, Jaden Young, Lilli Orrell and Isabella Humphries

Young Miss 6-7 year-old
Winner – Allissa Bodiford
1st Runner-up - Isabella Humphries
2nd Runner-up - Lilli Orrell
Photogenic – Isabella Humphries
People’s Choice - Jaden Young

Skylar Sudduth, Kaylee Phillips, Kimberly Wood and Alexis Reed

Pixy Princess 8-9 year-old
Winner Skylar Sudduth
1st Runner-up Kaylee Phillips
2nd Runner-up Kimberly Wood
Photogenic Alexis Reed
People’s Choice Alexis Reed

Kelli Jo Stain, Christina Wood and Alex Lowe

Pixy Miss 10-11 year-old
Winner Kelli Jo Stain
1st Runner-up Alex Lowe
2nd Runner-up Christina Wood
Photogenic Kelli Jo Stain
People’s Choice Alex Lowe

Karson Kilcrease, Faith Krueger and Jordan Smith

Petite Miss 12-13 year-old
Winner Karson Kilcrease
1st Runner-up Jordan Smith
2nd Runner-up Faith Krueger
Photogenic Jordan Smith
People’s Choice Faith Krueger

Variety - Alex Borchardt–winner

Instrumental Solo – Jessaca Shepherd—winner

Dance Group – Monticello Dance Academy –Tap 3—winner

Dance Solo – Charlee Carter—winner

Over-All Winner
Monticello Dance Academy Tap 3—winner
Charlee Carter—1st place

Shown, left to right: Charlee Carter, Bliss Jaggers, Alex Jones, Jessaca Shepherd and Alex Borchardt

The new Livestock Barn has been completed, and will be in use for this year’s fair.

“Country Nights, Carnival Lights” is the theme of the 2013 Drew County Fair & Livestock Show.

This year’s fair dates are Sept. 16-21. with the Fair Pageants and talent show scheduled for Sept. 9-14

A Junior Fair Board has been formed and will be assisting with this year’s fair.

Remember to start planning your exhibits, now.  The County Extension Office can provide information to help you.

Also, make plans to include your business, club, or organization in the Commercial Booth area.  Call Brenda Reed at 723-6740 to reserve your booth.

Hubert and Evelyn McKeown, longtime fair supporters and Rock Springs residents, have been selected to serve as the 2013 Drew County Fair Parade Marshals.

The fair parade will be held September 17.

The Drew County fair board is pleased to announce our 2013 Jr. Fair Board. This is our first year for this group and it is showing to be a great decision.

The purpose of the Jr. Fair Board is to increase the support of our youth, and educate them in the operations in community programs, such as the County Fair.

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Members of the Drew County Fair Board and the Cooperative Extension Service would like to encourage residents to begin planning for the annual fair, which will be held the third week of September.

“Every year, we have residents tell us that they wish they had thought about entering a craft project, photo or preserved food item in the fair, but didn’t get started in time to do so,” said Drew County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent, Hazelene McCray. “We just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder that the fair would be coming up, and to ask them to start thinking about things they would like to enter, whether it be arts and crafts, animals, vegetables – whatever. The fair is more fun when there are lots of entries in all the different categories and more people can earn “bragging rights’ about their submissions and have their friends and family come out to view their award-winning works.”

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The Drew County Fairground’s Auditorium is available for rent for Family Reunions, ‘Weddings and/or Wedding Receptions,

Special rates are available for Birthday Party for young or old alike!

Rain or Shine — Hot or Cold — Call for Info

Contact Brenda Reed @ 870-723-6740.

Concrete has been poured this week for seven of the piers of the new livestock barn at the Drew County Fairgrounds.

The new barn is expected to be completed by the County Fair in September.

Drew County 4-H Poultry Club was well represented at the Arkansas State Fair Poultry show this weekend. The first 3 places in Junior Showmanship Competition went to Drew County students. Pictured are (l to r) Sunni Deb Weaver, 3rd place, Ethan Graves, 2nd place and Bree-anne Lanthrip, 1st place.

Ethan’s Black Modern Game pullet was chosen to win Reserve Champion Modern.

Students from Monticello Dance Academy competed in the Arkansas State Fair Youth Talent Show Finals on Saturday night, October 20th. The tap dance group “It Don’t Matter” consisting of Charlee Carter, Mary Beth Wigley, Emmalee Satterlee, Alex Jones, Ashlen McRae, and Bliss Jaggers won the dance group division Thursday night at the semi-finals and advanced to Saturday night’s finals. At the finals they won the dance group division and $500.

Charlee Carter also competed at the semi-finals on Thursday night with her tap routine to “Pencil Full of Lead” and advanced to the finals. She won the dance solo division at the finals as well as $500.

These girls are under the instruction of Allison Neill and are in their 7th, 8th, and/or 9th year of dance at MDA.

These students from Monticello Dance Academy represented the Drew County and Cleveland County fairs at the Southeast Arkansas District Fair in Pine Bluff this past weekend. They qualified for district by winning overall or 2nd overall at their local county fair’s talent show.

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Ryburn Motor Company salesmen spent last week at the Drew County Fair, IN THE DUNKING BOOTH.

All money raised will go to local charities, and friends and customers had the pleasure of dunking their favorite salesman, for only $1 a ball.

Here are a few of the photo.

Remember Ryburn provides Sales, Service, and Community Support

Lindsay Owens’ ticket was drawn out of the barrel, Tuesday night, earning her the Drew County Fair’s $25 nightly prize,

Wednesday night, Janice Cater’s ticket was pulled to earn her the $25 prize.  Lindsay Baker, shown here with Luke, was the lucky person, Thursday night.

Friday night, Bruce Savage had 25 reasons to be glad he went to the fair.

The final winner, Saturday night was Judy Langley.

Sun., Sept. 23rd—All exhibits & premium checks must be picked up between 2-4 p.m.

Listed below are the parade’s winning floats.

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For a “Homemade Breakfast, like Mom used to make,” visit the EHC Ladies Kitchen at the County Fair.  Your home cooked breakfast will include sausage, bacon, eggs, biscuits & gravy,and all the trimmings, served from 9-11 am.

Lunch starts at 11 and supper closes at 9 pm, and stay open all afternoon.  The EHC menu includes red beans and rice and homemade chili, as well as burgers, dogs, nachos and Frito pie.

Don’t forget the homemade pies (chocolate, coconut and lemon), by the piece or by the pan,

Miss Drew County 2012 is Kelsie Adcock,  Kelsie also won the interview portion of the pageant.

1st Runner-up was Rebecca Ferguson.  Rebecca also was the winner of the most photogenic, Miss Congeniality, the swimsuit competition, and the Peoples Choice honor.

Ashleigh White was the 2nd Runner-up.

Little Miss 4-5 year-old
Winner Lilli Orrell
1st Runner-up Annsley Oltmann
2nd Runner-up Kadence Meier
Photogenic Annsley Oltmann
People’s Choice Lilli Orrell

Young Miss 6-7 year-old
Winner Caralyne Donaldson
1st Runner-up Hannah Grace Meeks
2nd Runner-up Kimberly Wood
Photogenic Caralyne Donaldson
People’s Choice Caralyne Donaldson

Pixy Miss 10-11 year-old
Winner Gracie Mosley
1st Runner-up Alex Lowe
2nd Runner-up Kelli Jo Stain
3rd Runner-up Christina Wood
Photogenic Gracie Mosley
People’s Choice Alex Lowe

Petite Miss 12-13 year-old
Winner Hailey Maxey
Photogenic Hailey Maxey

Variety
Jessica Wishard–winner

Instrumental Solo
Blake Middlebrooks—winner

Vocal Solo
Charley Bodiford—winner

Instrumental Group
Matthew Montgomery & Steven Stringer—winner

Dance Group
Monticello Dance Academy (6)—winner

Dance Solo
Charlee Carter—winner

Over-All Winner
Monticello Dance Academy (6)—winner
Charlee Carter—1st place

Winner Kaylee Jo Box
1st Runner-up Rachel Wilson
2nd Runner-up Ashley Berryman
3rd Runner-up Baylee Shaver
Photogenic Kaylee Jo Box
Interview Kaylee Jo Box
Sportswear Kaylee Jo Box
People’s Choice Ashley Berryman

As the Drew County fair and livestock show continues to recover from the damage caused by a tornado in May of 2009, the fair board and UAM, actually the University of Arkansas system, have agreed to terms oa a 25 year lease agreement on the fairgrounds.

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Charlee Carter is Junior Miss Drew County.

This is the first year the State Fair is holding a Junior Miss Fair Queen. Charlee was one of three contestants out of the 10 that competed that the judges chose to advance to the finals on saturday night! She is pictured here with Toni Findley, left, and Allison Neill, right… Dance instructors of Monticello dance academy where Charlee is in her 8th year of lessons.