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Gas prices Cost of a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Sunday
Fuel Stop ................... $2.55 West Kum & Go ....... $2.56 7-Eleven ................... $2.56 Petro West ............... $2.63 Phillips 66............................ $2.59 Bob’s Conoco ...................... $2.65 Hilltop Sinclair ..................... $2.65 Anglers Kum & Go ............... $2.56 Ski Haus ................................. $2.64 Mount Werner Sinclair ........... $2.55 Shell ......................................... $2.69 Shop & Hop ............................. $2.56 State Average ....................$2.46 .................... National Average ...............$2.53
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Harry Jenkins brings two of his pigs back from a walk meant to tone their muscles. Jenkins and his sister are raising pigs for the Routt County Fair.
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Challenges, responsibilities of raising pigs shift in final weeks before fair Brandon Gee
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For Shealie and Harry Jenkins, early summer days of wrangling loose pigs have been replaced by efforts to perfect the animals in time for the Routt County Fair that begins Aug. 13 in Hayden. Bambi, Flower, Morgan and Mr. McStifflestumps are more content to stay in their pen these days — a good thing since they have grown to more than
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220 pounds and are much stronger than two months ago — although Harry, 12, and Shealie, 14, did have to steer them ROAD TO THE away from their COUNTY favorite mud pit when taking FAIR them for a walk Friday afternoon. Harry explained that pigs don’t sweat.
Preparing for the fair This story is the second in an occasional series about Harry and Shealie Jenkins’ preparations for the Routt County Fair.
kind of acts like a sunscreen for them,” he said about the mud. Most of the summer has been spent fattening the pigs up, but the Jenkins children now are preparing the pigs for showmanship. In addition to cleaning, brushing and shaving the pigs, that process also “It cools them off, and it includes the daily walk to firm
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Partly sunny. High of 84.
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up their muscles and give them a better appearance. “So that they’re not just fat blobs,” Shealie said. The 4-H members, who live on the family ranch south of Steamboat Springs, are raising the four pigs for the fair. Harry and Shealie each have a pink male Hampshire pig and a brown female Duroc. The walks also are a practice in controlling the pigs, for when the children will have to walk them around and present them to judges at See Pigs, back page
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