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PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID GILLETTE, WY PERMIT NO. 5105
The Campbell 00 $1. County Observer
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Volume 4 • Issue 32
August 8 - 15, 2014
ThisJune Week’s 17 - 24, 2011 Highlights “If it doesn’t have to do with Campbell County, we don’t care!”
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• Fire Restrictions in Place .....................Page 3 • Vehicle Registration Laws need a Tweak ..........Page 10
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Waiting at the Fair
Photo by Elizabeth Richards
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Young participant Lily and several others prepare to show their cows to the judges.
A Generation of Hooves By Elizabeth Richards ll of Gillette tends to turn out for the Campbell County Fair at some point, and this year is no different. What better way to celebrate our heritage than to walk beside the animals who have supported us and the youths that will one day take the reins? The baying of sheep, happy to be sheared of their wool during the summer heat, filled the arena where crowds gathered to watch the livestock showings. The arrangement was quite stunning; the comfort of the animals having been noticeably paramount within the minds of the administrators. Fresh wood shavings covered the ground and the hum of dozens of fans filled the air - the showroom being blessedly cool, dry, and clean. With such conditions taken to heart it is difficult to feel sorry for the animals as they lounge and chew without a care in the world. Even the sheep were tended to with fine hands, the smoothness and closeness of the shearing showing the skill of the people attending them. We stood on the steel bleachers and wandered the floor area as big boots were shadowed by their tiny counterparts; parent and child showing off parent and child. This was the Peewee Showmanship, a competition for livestock owners and their children to flaunt the best of their herd. At the fair on august third judges came forward to inspect each animal and caregiver, the children watching and learning for the day when it would be them leading their
children down the wood paved isles. In Wyoming we are born with our hands in the earth and our hearts on
tanned hides, it is good to see that feeling passed down from great to small.
Tracy Austin sheers her sheep for the judges and to keep the young animal cool in the heat.