Frederick County Youth Fair Opens Monday
Frederick County Youth Fair begins Monday at the Rt. 11 north fairgrounds beside Stonewall Elementary School. New facilities include a 40 by 100 foot block building by the Lee Whitacre family with Dowell J. Howard Vocational School student help, plus a Gainesboro Ruritan Club pole barn to ease livestock crowding. The block building required over 1,000 man hours. the barn took 400.
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Jim Ackley
Frederick County
Rt. 11 North
Stonewall
Lee Whitacre
Cross Junction
Dowell J. Howard Vocational School
Gainesboro
Ruritan Club
Frederick County Fair Opens with Evening Gates and Events
Final preparations at the fairgrounds ahead of Monday’s opening. Gates open 6 p.m. weekdays and 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Exhibits due 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday. Lawn tractor pulls at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Song out of South at 7:30 p.m. Exhibits judged Tuesday morning. livestock show at 6 p.m. Winchester Express at 7 p.m. Greased Pig Scramble at 8 p.m. James Wood High School Jazz Band at 9 p.m. Wednesday Dairy Cattle Show starts 6 p.m. with 7 p.m. follow-up.
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Winchester Express
James Wood High School
County Youths Attend 4-H Electric Congress
Two Frederick County youths Lisa Moler and Jeff Witt returned from the 25th annual State 4-H Electric Congress in Richmond at the John Marshall Hotel. The three day event honors and informs county and state 4-H electric project winners with about 150 delegates from nearly 60 Virginia counties and cities. The Virginia 4-H Electric Program is run by Virginia Tech Extension Division with the department of agricultural engineering.
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Frederick County
Richmond
John Marshall Hotel
Lisa Moler
Jeff Witt
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Lisa
Charles Moler
Winchester
Witt
L.A. Witt
Lynn Larson
Tabb
York County
William E. Skelton
Tech
College of Home Economics
Laura J. Harper
Overton R. Johnson
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Kenneth E. Dawson
Chicago
Capitol
King’s Dominion
Ashland
Today in History and Fair Facts from Frederick County
On this date in 1782 the Portsmouth harbor disaster drowned nearly 1100 when a British man o war sank during repairs. Also notable are Atahualpa’s 1533 execution and the 1975 4-H Electric Congress in Virginia. The piece links historical anniversaries to the 1975 Clarke Frederick County fair events and exhibits.
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Portsmouth
England
Peru
Atahualpa
Francisco Pizarro
United States
Philanthropist
Mount Pleasant
Ohio
Carry Nation
New York
John L. Sullivan
Queen Astrid
Belgium
Switzerland
Copenhagen
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Japan
U.S
L. Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Atlantic
Crete
Middle East
East Germany
Lyman Lemnitzer
Barry Sullivan
George Washington
Semitic Alphabet Emerges Along the Eastern Mediterranean in 1500 B.C.
The text notes that Semitic peoples near the eastern Mediterranean began writing with an alphabet around 1500 B.C., marking a key development in early writing systems and cultural exchange.
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Mediterranean Sea
Frederick County 4-H Public Speaking Program planned
The Frederick County 4-H All Stars met to organize the 1976 Frederick County Public Speaking Program. Four camp scholarships will be awarded to top county participants. Workshops preceding the January county contest will be hosted by the All Stars for all Frederick County 4-H youth enrolled in 1975 76. The program is supported by the Extension Division of VPI SU.
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Frederick County
Vpi&su
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Billy Carper
Vocational Industrial Clubs of America
J. Miles Cory
Clarke County Ramblers
Teresa Jenkins
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Dairy Club
Tri- County 4-H
Goat Club
Sears
Bank of Clarke
Dan x
County
Berryville
Boyce
Clarke County
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Athur, Inc
East Boscawen Street
Jerry Lewis
Las Vegas
Jerry
The
Muscular Dystrophy Association
al Hirschfeld
Margo Feiden
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