7/12/11 The Marshall County 4-H Fair in Argos officially opened at 6:30 Sunday afternoon with the recognition of the 10-Year members and the crowing of the 2011 4-H King and Queen in the Joe Gingerich Area.
Herb Newman, President of the 4-H Council welcomed everyone and said, “It’s hot! It’s July, and there are over 1,000 animals in the neighborhood. It must be fair time!”
Opening remarks by Richard Markley, President of the 4-H Fair-Board spoke of the many changes. He said after last year’s fair they accepted suggestion for making the fair better. Some of those changes implemented included guidelines on projects, having the more than 400 adult volunteers renew their support of the 4-H program, a brand new Youth Extension Educator, Amy Jones who came on board June 1st, the creation of a leaner fair board, and the re-institution in a modified form of the 4-H Queen and King contest.
The program then introduced the 10-Year Members. This class, for the first time in more than 30 years had 53 outstanding young men and women in it. Listed below are the 10-year members:
AARON BACHTEL Center
AUSTIN BAKER North
JACLYN BAUER Union
MEGAN BEERY Polk
ALAN BOLLENBACHER German
AARON CHANEY Green
ROSS COLUMBIA Polk
RYLEY CRIPPS Bourbon
CAMERON CURTIS Union
AUSTIN DAVIS Bourbon
SHAWN MICHAEL DUFF Center
MARISSA EINSPAHR Center
CASSIE FROESCHKE Center
SARAH GOUKER German
KRISTEN GUSTAFSON Polk
DARIN HARRELL Center
COURTNEY HARRIS Center
ELIZABETH HARTMAN West
DAMION HARTZ Center
SEAN HATFIELD Center
JEANNA HATHAWAY Polk
DANIEL HUMMEL Polk
CAITLIN JUNG Center
SAMANTHA KEMP Center
BRANDON KLECKNER Center
KATIE LAUDEMAN German
BLAKE LEMLER Bourbon
JODIE LEMLER Bourbon
ZOE MACK North
MEGAN MARSHALL West
TRISHA NEIDLINGER Center
BENJAMIN NEWMAN Union
STEPHANIE NIFONG Center
CRYSTAL O CONNOR Polk
CRYSTAL OVERMYER Bourbon
CODY POZIL West
JASON RINGER German
ANDREA RINKENBERG Bourbon
LYNN ROBERTS Center
ALYSSA SCHMIDT Polk
AUNDREA SELLERS Bourbon
ALEX SHAFFER Union
LATISHA SHEPHERD Green
TABITHA SHERWOOD Center
JESSICA SMITH Union
SHELBY STEINMAN Bourbon
KELSEY STICHTER German
SAMANTHA STULTS Walnut
ALEXANDREA THOMPSON Tippecanoe
TYLER VERMILLION Center
MORGAN WELDY German
ALEXANDRA ZECHIEL Walnut
KATELYNN ZECHIEL Walnut