Trempealeau fair runs smoothly its 120th year
4 H and Youth Agent Al Lunde praised the Trempealeau County Fair’s smooth operations as judging neared completion. The event ran July 27 to 28 with 10,000 to 12,000 attendees, showcasing cultural arts and a new exhibit area under the grandstand. Homemaker Day featured a quilt auction raising funds for improving the Homemaker building and fostering club camaraderie. Livestock entries grew in sheep poultry rabbits and dairy goats with a two hour Saturday auction selling 75 animals. Beef prices averaged 72.5 cents per pound with a top 1.20 per pound steer.
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Ken Brown
Trempealeau-Jackson County
Trempealeau County Horse Show Champions Named
Trempealeau showcases top youth riders with titles across halter, horsemanship and showmanship. Troy Bauer earns overall champion, while Donna Oedsma takes reserve pony halter. Tracey Mensing wins champion horsemanship with Sue Wolfe as reserve. Megan French and Scott Bauer claim pony titles, Kelli Brandenburg and Cammie Hargrove win horse showmanship, Kathleen Serum leads pony showmanship, with UD tied to reserve pleasure pony honors for Ann French and Kim Stitheserve earning champion pleasure horse.
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Troy Bauer
Halter
Donna Oedsma
Tracey Mensing
Sue Wolfe
Scott Bauer
Sandy Thompson
Megan French
Kelli Brandenburg
Cammie Hargrove
Kathleen Serum
Ann French
Kim Stitheserve
Hogs Bring High Prices At County Auction
The 39 hogs sold for about $9,500 at an 83 percent average, slightly below last year. Rachel Guse of Whitehall sold her 239 pound grand champion Duroc for $1.15 a pound to Pigeon Falls Bank and noted a 15 cent rise from last year. Jim Schank of Independence, last year’s top sheep winner, again led with a 95 pound wether lamb as grand champion and earned the best lamb price of $1.45 a pound from Falls Meat Co. Seven lambs sold for nearly $750 at an average of $1.08 a pound, eight cents below last year’s average for five lambs.
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James Schank
Independence
Rachel Guse
Whitehall
Trempealeau County Fair
Rachel
Duroc
Pigeon Falls
Jim Schank
Wether
Falls Meat Co
Buffalo County auctioneer named to national board
Jim Heike of Mondovi was elected to the National Auctioneers Association board of directors at the Boston convention in July 1922. The NAA, with over 5,500 members and 44 state associations, counts Lincoln Nebraska as headquarters. Heike is a past president of the Wisconsin Auctioneers Association and earned the Auctioneer of the Year award for 1977 78.
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Buffalo County
National Board
Jim Heike
Mondovi
The
National Auctioneers Association
NAA
Boston
Mass
Lincoln, Neb
Heike
Wisconsin Auctioneers Association
Auctioneer
Tyrone site begins well and survey work for NSP plant
Northern States Power Co announces pre construction activities at Tyrone for a proposed nuclear plant. A 360 foot test well will assess water for construction, fire protection and sanitary use. DNR permits permit drilling by Keys Well Drilling Co with Commonwealth Associates supervising geologists and survey crews using electronic distance measuring at night.
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Tyrone
Northern States Power Company
DNR
Keys Well Drilling Co
St. Paul
Commonwealth Associates, Inc
Jackson, Mich
NSP
Commonwealth
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Ricky Schank
Eve Charles Oedsma
Lori Thompson
Jeff Lorch
Carrie Hackleberg
Linda Bobo
Nancy Kopp
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Fred Kindschy
Todd Heness
Greg Sonsalla Jr
Cindy Raynum
Elizabeth Guse
Mary Coburn
Larry Lakey
Guernsey
Pat McCabe
Guesey
Joey Lakey
Dale Evenson
Gracie Guernsey Jr
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Guernsey Res. Jr
Kurtis Trocinski
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Mary Paulson
Roger Byom
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Nancy Anderson
David Glomstad
Lana Trocinski
Brian Brenengan
Doug Brenengan
Michelle Haralison
Heidi Tenneson
Lois Walski
Dawn Mathson
Cammie Hargrove Terrarium
Dawn Anderson
Todd Quaine
Carmen Han
Caledonia Thrifty Workers
Pigeon Flyers
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Celine Schank
Rocketry
Sheryl Thomson
Terry Everson
Rhonda Brahn
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