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AUGUST 13, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 193
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Base work under way Promenade construction starts; Corna, Scott memorials proposed Page 2
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Used car prices rise Cash for Clunkers requires trade-ins to be destroyed, which lowers supply JOEL REICHENBERGER/STAFF
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Rock Star, Boss and Big Black try to break free despite the efforts of their handlers, from left, Jake Hockett, Nick DeLuca and Mariah Hoots on Wednesday in the swine showmanship competition at the Routt County Fair. Contestants tried to keep their livestock in line using show sticks.
SPORTS
4-H’ers fare well Jenkins siblings finish 3rd, 6th in intermediate division of swine showmanship
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Jack Weinstein
HAYDEN
Shealie Jenkins got off to a rough start during swine showmanship Wednesday at the 95th Routt County Fair in Hayden. Flower, her brown Duroc, darted into the gate and ran through the middle of the ring,
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past the event judge, as 14Routt County year-old ShealFair schedule ie chased after. See page 11 “I thought, ‘Oh no, the judge is going to hold it against me,’” she said about the early mishap in the event, which requires handlers to demonstrate how well they can lead
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An afternoon storm. High of 83
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their pigs around the ring. The judge was lenient. Shealie was awarded sixth place in the intermediate division of a crowded field of swine showmanship competitors. Showing his Duroc named Morgan, her 12-year-old brother, Harry, was awarded third place. The week’s festivities culminate the Jenkins siblings’ months
of work raising the pigs. Events also included Wednesday evening’s swine market — an evaluation of their pigs, Mr. McStifflestumps and Bambi, in addition to Flower and Morgan, overall quality — and Saturday’s junior livestock sale. See Fair, page 14
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