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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.

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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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.

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Saturday -  1-5 pm – Armband Specials
Thursday Armbands will be Honored Saturday, 1-5 pm
Open Rodeo - 8 pm
9:15 pm, Nightly Drawing forPrize Money in the Breezeway

Sunday - Exhibits and premium checks must be picked up - 2-4 pm

Commercial & Non-profit Winning Float -- Monticello Film Academy

Commercial & Non-profit
1.  Monticello Film Academy
2.  Union Bank
3.  Centers for Youth & Family

Youth Winning Float- It's All About Kid's Childcare

Youth
1.  It’s All About Kids Childcare

Youth Runner-up - MIS

2.  MIS
3.  4-H Poultry

Youth 2nd Runner-up - 4-H Poultry Club "Super Chicken"

Youth Sports
1.  Simmons Bank Pee Wee Football
2.  Union Bank Pee Wee Football
3.  Ryburn Pee Wee Football

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Winner Jessica Savage
1st Runner-up Jessica Talkington
2nd Runner-up Leeza Goudy
Photogenic & Interview Jessica Talkington
Congeniality & Swimsuit Leeza Goudy
People’s Choice Ashley Aiken

0-11 months old – Girls  –  Boys
Winner – Lillian Snow   – Christian Pevey
1st Runner-up – Layna Endsley – Austin Crossett
2nd Runner-up – Dailyn Trotter – Miles West
Photogenic – Layna Endsley – Aiden Harris
People’s Choice – Gracie Hawkins – Aiden Harris

12-23 months old   -  Girls  — Boys
Winner   -  Jaycie Foster – Seth Wilson
1st Runner-up - Rhyse Guthrie – Christopher Strickland
2nd Runner-up – Addison Weeks – Nasir Thornton
Photogenic – Anniston Wright – Christopher Strickland
People’s Choice-  Madison Maize – Carter Reed 

Miss Tot 24-35 month-old  &  Tiny Miss 36-47 months old
Winner -  Allie Regalado  - Annsley Oltmann
1st Runner-up – Chelsea Simpson -  Libby Workman
2nd Runner-up – Caitlyn Hollingsworth – Tiara Colbert
Photogenic – Alyssa Hebert – Annsley Oltmann
People’s Choice – Allie Regalado-  Tamya Simmons

Winner Jaden Young
1st Runner-up Zoe Sudduth
2nd Runner-up India Robinson
Photogenic Kynlee Graves
People’s Choice Kierstyn Camden

Winner Kaylee Phillips
1st Runner-up Trinty Colbert
2nd Runner-up Raygen Bonnette
Photogenic Trinity Colbert
People’s Choice Alexis Reed

 Winner Gracie Mosley
1st Runner-up Madison Sudduth
2nd Runner-up  & Photogenic Kelli Jo Stain
People’s Choice Anazya Lattimore

Winner Lauren VanDee
1st Runner-up Emily Clemons
2nd Runner-up Denashia Correll
Photogenic Gracie Johnson
People’s Choice Abbigal Camden

Winner Dailyn Johnston
1st Runner-up Ashley Berryman
2nd Runner-up Jordan Socia
Photogenic Ashley Berryman
People’s Choice Hailey Maxey

Winner Charlee Carter
1st Runner-up Kaylee Bradberry
2nd Runner-up Shelby O’Fallon
Photogenic Kaylee Bradberry
Interview Shelby O’Fallon
Sportswear Charlee Carter
People’s Choice Alexis Phillips

Vocal Solo winner Tyler Harper
Vocal Group winner Sean Kaminicki and Katie Taylor
Instrumental Group winner Kyle Kaminicki and Jazmine Rivera
Dance Solo winner Emmalee Satterlee
Dance Group winner Monticello Dance Academy ages 11-14
Variety winner Jessica Wishard
Overall winner Monticello Dance Academy ages 11-14
Peoples Choice winner Kristiana Tenorio

Winner Christie Maxey

1st Runner-up Samantha Yarberry

2nd Runner-up Kelly Doggett

 Christie Maxey also won the Photogenic , Congeniality, Interview, and People’s Choice Categories.

All Pageants: Entry fee is $25 for the beauty category or $30 if you choose to compete in beauty and photogenic.

If you are competing in the Junior Miss (14-15) pageant, please contact Jessica Milburn at 460-5237 because there are a few changes in that category this year for state fair.

Good Luck