COUNTY LIFE
Montague County Youth Fair schedule (updated Jan. 4)
Jan. 4- Leadership Day, H.J. Justin Community Room, downtown Nocona
8:15 a.m. – Junior prepared speaking begins, senior extemporaneous speaking begins
9:15 a.m. – Junior extemporaneous speaking begins, senior prepared speaking begins
10:15 a.m. – Robotics contest begins
11:30-12:30 – Lunch break
12:30-1 p.m. Contestants check-in for skill-a-thons
1 p.m. – Beef and horse skills-a-thon
2-2:30 p.m. – Check in for barbecue contest
3 p.m. – Barbecue contest
4 p.m. – Meat entries turn in and judging begins
5 p.m. – Leadership Day Awards
Jan. 5 – Ag. Center and Nocona Community Center
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. – Check-in of shop projects, community center
8 a.m. – Weigh-in market lambs, market goals, breeding sheep and breeding goats
Check-in all dairy heifers and poultry
9 a.m. – Poultry Show- ag center
10 a.m. – Farm shop judging begins at community center
11 a.m. – Dairy cattle show, ag center
Noon – Lamb show, ag center
2 p.m. – Goat show, ag center
5 p.m. – All Together Show, ag. center
4-6 p.m. – Check-in creative art, photograph, fabric, all at community center. Judging begins at 7 p.m.,
Jan. 6, ag. center
7-8 a.m. – Check-in all rabbits
7-9 a.m. – Check-in all food entries, community center
8-9 a.m. – Weigh-in of steers
8-10 a.m. – Check-in all heifers, weigh-in and classify all swine entries
9 a.m. – Rabbit show
10:30 a.m. – Judging food and creative arts, community center
2 p.m. – Heifer show, followed by steer show, ag. center
6 p.m. – Home economics results posted. Silent auction moved to Saturday during premium sale.
Jan. 7, ag. center
8 a.m. – Swine Show
9 a.m. – Public viewing of home economics projects, silent auction opens closes at noon, community center
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Pick up all home economics projects
5:30 p.m. – Clover Kids Parade, ag center
6:30 p.m. – Premium Sale
REMINDERS AND CHANGES FROM THE FAIR COMMITTEE POSTED ON Jan. 5
As we are getting geared up to start the 2023 MCYF, here are a couple of reminders and changes:
1. Wednesday is our first-ever Leadership Day at the Justin Building (the community room across from the Boot Store) in Nocona with 70 entries!
2. We will be finishing set up of the ring and pens Wednesday night at 6pm! Please come lend a hand if you can!
3. Ag Mech projects have an early check-in option Wednesday night from 5-8pm.
4. No animals at the premium auction on Saturday so it is IMPERATIVE that, if you make sale, you get your backdrop photos taken, either by the photographer or on your own, for the pictures to be included during the sale!
5. The creative art, food, photography, sewing, and shop project class winner Silent Auction that is normally held on Saturday morning HAS MOVED to Saturday night during the premium auction sale!
6. It is planned to have a live feed of the shows like we have had in years past…please check back here, but also the https://www.facebook.com/MONTAGUE-COUNTY-4-H-127727565100/
It has been quite a busy few days at the Montague County Youth Fair with schedule changes, juggling of events and trying to cope with the unexpected snow storm. However, the youth fair always rolls on thanks to the dedicated volunteers, coordinators, parents and students.
Friday the rabbit how starts at 10 a.m., with heifer and steer show at 2 p.m. Ag. mech. check-in at 6 p.m. with that show at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Swine will move into the barn later today with its show at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday the home economics silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and run to 9 p.m. in the show barn. Showmanship buckles will be presented at 6 p.m. in the barn followed by leadership day awards. The premium sale is at 6:30 p.m. Make plans to come out and support these hard working kids and families.
See all the winners in the Thursday Bowie News.
Top photo – Poultry show photo taken by Rashonda Hobbs of Unfazed Creations, official photographer for the youth fair. Make sure and check out her photos.
When we were going through my grandmother’s house in Nocona after it sold, I found a few neat keepsakes, but the biggest treasure I thought I had found was her biscuit cutter. I was so excited to show my mother (her daughter) and just knew she would be happy it was found and would still be used after all this time.
My mother, however, had a different thought about my precious biscuit cutter. She said, “Suzanne, you know that biscuit cutter is just an old tomato paste can that has both ends cut out.”
I was still no less delighted with my cutter. I continue to use it today. My husband has bought me vintage, new and fancier cutters, but this cutter is something I go back to time and again.
My Memaw was recruited to be a lunch lady from 1952 to 1958 at Nocona Elementary, back when lunches were cooked, not “fixed.” Lenora Brown Burnett was an excellent cook and everyone knew it. She went on to work at the Nocona Major Clinic kitchen from 1958 to 1969.
You could only use shortcuts if you knew how to do it the long way. That is how I still approach cooking. You can only use a cake mix if you know how to make a cake with lots of ingredients, time and effort.
Read Suzanne’s Love & Luck column in the Thursday Bowie News on the On the Table page.
Top photo – Grandmother’s biscuit cutter and hand written recipes. (Photo by Suzanne Storey)
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