The Sheridan County Honest has ended, however Honest Season continues within the Northern Panhandle.
The Dawes and Sioux County Festivals have their largest days forward and KCSR begins dwell broadcasts from the Dawes County Honest immediately.
We’ll be there immediately via Thursday from 10:00-5:30 and on Friday from 10:00 until midday..
The primary a part of the week is pretty quiet for the Sioux County Honest in Harrison with solely the Small Animal and Poultry present immediately at 9:00 and the Open 4-H Horse Present tomorrow at 8:00.
The Sioux County Honest is darkish on Wednesday, then returns Thursday with Static Exhibit Day for each 4-H and Open Class at 9:00, the Junior King and Queen Contest at 3:00, and the Junior Rodeo at 4:00 earlier than everyone relaxes with the Pie and Ice Cream Social at 6:30 within the Harrison Metropolis Park.
The Dawes County Honest is checking in 4-H displays this morning at 8:30 with static exhibit interview judging from 9-1:00. Cake adorning is being judged this afternoon from 2-4:00, and there are stick horse races for ages 6-and-under from 2:30-4:00.
The Youth Rodeo Gymkhana with 3 age teams takes over the sector at 5:00, the identical time a 2-hour silent public sale for the 4-H Inventive Chef gadgets begins within the 4-H Constructing. The dwell 4-H Cake and Pie Public sale is at 5:30, again on the Enviornment
5:30 additionally has an open 3-D Archery Shoot on the east finish of the Race Monitor plus free popsicles from Nebraska Financial institution on the Grandstand.
Yesterday, the Honest held induction ceremonies for the Dawes County Agricultural Corridor of Fame, which additionally included the Good Neighbor Award, a Pioneer Farm Award, the Higher NIobrara White NRD Conservation Award, and the Honest Particular person of the 12 months Award.
Formally going into the County Ag Corridor of Fame have been 5 people – Don Littrel, and {couples} Lance and Gwen Scherbarth and Bruce and Marie Wohlers. All belong to households with a protracted historical past of farming and ranching in Dawes County.
Bruce and Marie Wohlers additionally acquired the Pioneer Farm Award or Century Farm Award from the Aksarben Basis. It’s offered to households who’ve owned their land for at the very least 100 years.
The Dawes County Good Neighbor Awards, a neighborhood model of a discontinued statewide program, went to Howard and Teyre Felz, the Crawford Quilt Makers, Jim Moore of Whitney, Neal Soester, and Cogdill Feeds proprietor Willie Cogdill.
The names of each teams had been launched prematurely, however not these of the opposite two awards.
Offered with the NRD Conservation Award have been Jim and Deb Lesmeister, who ranch northeast of Chadron off Slim Buttes Street, whereas auctioneer and actual property agent Bruce Schoeppner of Related Brokers is the Honest Particular person of the 12 months.
In one other shock, the Crawford Quilt Makers offered a Quilt of Valor to retired long-time Dawes County Agent/Nebraska Extension Educator Don Huls, who spent 30 years within the army, principally within the Guard and Reserve, earlier than retiring as a full colonel.
You will discover the complete schedules for the Dawes County Honest on the bulletins web page at chadrad.com.
