The 2011 Donley County Junior Livestock Show will be held this Saturday, January 8, at the Donley County Activity Center one mile north of Clarendon on Highway 70.
Seventy-three kids from Donley County have been working several months with their projects in order to make Saturday’s show a success. Now they are setting up the show ring, pens and chairs and washing/clipping their animals in preparation for this weekend.
This is the second year that the show will take place in the Donley County Activity Center, and improvements have been made to the facility since last year. These include finished wash racks, a weather resistant parking lot, central air/heat in the front part of the building, serving tables and cabinets in the kitchen area, and concrete loading zones on the north side of the building.
The new Extension offices in the front of the building are also 90 percent complete and only lack installation of communications lines by Texas A&M personnel.
Saturday’s schedule of events will include weigh- and check-in starting at 3 p.m. on January 7, and the show will start at 8:30 a.m. on January 8 starting with sheep and followed by goats, heifers, steers, guilt, and barrows. A buyers’ appreciation meal will follow the show at 6 p.m. The livestock project auction will follow the meal.
For more information or to donate to the auction, contact Larry Gray, Livestock Chairman, at 874-2095 or 806-930-1842 or Leonard Haynes, CEA, at 806-282-7680.
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