Shawano County Fair
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County Fair Season Ticket Sales
The Shawano County Agricultural Society would like the assistance of all 4-H clubs in selling season tickets for the County Fair. Season tickets allow entrance plus parking into the fairgrounds as often as you need during the fair. We hope to have tickets available to interested General Leaders at the July 18 Leaders Meeting. REMINDER: Ticket sale money and unsold tickets are due to the UWEX office on or before pre-fair judging day, August 27th. Your club will get .50 cents commission for each ticket sold. The top selling club will also receive $25.00. If you don’t want to check out tickets, the UWEX office will sell them and give you credit as long as the purchaser mentions your club when buying.
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Policy on Free Passes For Livestock/Small Animal Auction Buyers
Shawano Area Agricultural Society, the sponsors of our county fair, adopted a policy for distributing fair admission passes to animal auction buyers. All BUYERS from the previous year will receive a one-day fair pass that they can use for free admission to the fair on auction day, or any other day of the fair if they so choose. This is a way of saying “Thank You” to committed buyers and inviting them to return the following year. So, if you purchased an animal last year, you will receive a one-day pass to this year’s Shawano County Fair. All buyers this year will receive a free one-day pass to next year’s county Fair, and so forth each year thereafter. Note that BUYERS ONLY will be the ones to receive free passes the following year. The new policy had to be instituted because in past years a very large number of free passes were being passed out to possible buyers, but typically half or more of these possible buyers were not buying animals. The expense of giving out free passes to an unlimited number of persons became too great. If you are inviting new prospective buyers to the auction, feel free to tell them that if they do actually purchase an animal, they will automatically receive a free one-day pass to the following year’s fair.
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Patti Pumpkin Fair Update – All 1st graders in Shawano County received Patti Pumpkin Seed Packets. Please encourage your siblings and friends to enter their pumpkins in the Shawano County Fair. Pumpkins do not have to be orange and they may be decorated – but DO NOT carve Jack-O-Lanterns. Entry Forms are due to UW-Extension office by August 25th. Patti Pumpkins will be displayed and judged in the Jr. Fair Building. Entry day is Thursday, noon until 8:00pm.
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Fair Entries DUE on Aug. 1st
ALL JR FAIR (4-H, FFA, FHA, Scouts, Booths etc.) entries are due by August 1st. Get your fair entry to your leader before that date, so they come into the UWEX office together as a club.
Keep in mind the following when filling out your entry blank:
- Dairy, Beef, Sheep, Swine, Horse and Goat Exhibitors are to enter these animals on a separate animal entry form as well as the original entry form, and attach this to the original form. (Your club leaders will have these forms).
- If you plan to enter Showmanship in any department, list it on your entry sheet.
- Check to be sure the classes you enter are in the same projects you are enrolled in.
- Check the fair book carefully for changes in entries, age classes and rules.
- The area you enter is the area in which the exhibit will be judged. NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE AT THE FAIR.
- If your club is entering a booth, please fill out a separate entry form with your club name on it. Use the blank entry forms in your packet, copy more or pick up from UWEX office.
- All entry forms and processing fees are due to the UWEX office on or before August 1.
Per Fair Board – A $2.00 per entrant processing fee (excluding Cloverbuds) must accompany your fair entry form ($5.00 for those with 51 or more entries). Clubs should make one check to pay club member’s processing fees. Checks should be made out to: Shawano Area Ag Society.
Policy on Incorrect Fair Entries
Despite everyone’s best efforts to catch them, some items are incorrectly entered in the fair. The Shawano Agricultural Society (the people who run the county fair) asked the 4H Leaders, Inc. for a uniform recommendation on how to handle incorrect entries. The policy adopted says that all entries that are entered incorrectly, will be dropped by one placing. For example, entries that would have received a blue ribbon/ premium will receive a red ribbon/ premium if they are entered incorrectly. We recognize that there are a few departments where this system may not be possible. In those situations, Superintendent’s discretion should be used.
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Animal Testing At The Fair
At the Shawano County Fair, one class of animal species will be tested for legal and illegal drug residues, steroids, etc., by a Veterinarian appointed by the Shawano Area Agricultural Society. The species selected and date/time of testing will NOT be announced. A fair judge from outside the county will select the animal species to be tested. Champions and Reserve Champions may also be tested. So in any given year, the species selected could be sheep, swine, dairy, beef, exotic, goats, rabbits or poultry, for example. The Veterinarian will determine which tests are to be conducted.
The Shawano Area Agricultural Society has implemented this procedure at our fair based on recommendations they received at the Wisconsin Association of Fairs Annual Meeting. Although the vast majority of fair exhibitors are honest and play by the rules, a few cases of drug misuse pop up from time to time around the state. This testing procedure helps to discourage any “would-be” violators. If your animal is selected for testing, we thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Shawano County Fair Weigh – In Dates
All 4-H and FFA members planning to exhibit market beef, sheep and swine at the Shawano County Fair must have their animals weighed in on the following dates:
- Beef – Saturday, April 2 from 9 am to 11 am at Equity Livestock Sale Barn in Bonduel.
- Swine – Saturday, May 7 from 9 am to noon in the Beef Barn at the county fairgrounds.
- Sheep and Goats – Friday, May 6 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm in the Beef Barn at the county fairgrounds.
- All Species – County Fair final weigh-in from 11 am to 6 pm at fairgrounds on Wednesday, August 31st.
- Animal Entry Form for Junior Fair Division (pdf)
Wristband Procedure to Begin at 2011 County Fair
The Shawano Area Agricultural Society has decided to implement plastic wristbands in place of paper exhibitor passes. You will receive a paper exhibitor pass with your fair entry tags (same as in past years) that will admit you into the fairgrounds on the first day of the fair. When you enter on that first day, you will turn in your paper exhibitor pass to the gate person, and then a plastic wristband will be placed on your wrist. You will leave this wristband ON during the entire fair. The wristband will identify you as an exhibitor and will be your admission pass each day. If anyone’s wristband comes off or has to be removed before the fair is over, you will need to BRING the removed wristband to the main office and get a replacement before leaving the grounds that day. As with any new procedure, please be patient….give the new gate admission system a chance to work.
Fair Book is a 2-year edition
As you may recall, our 2010-2011 Fair book is a 2-year edition. Use the fair book given to you last year to complete your fair entry next month. for your convenience, the entire Fair book can be found at http://shawanocountyfair.net including all information you need to complete your entry!
Junior Fair Division Entry Form (pdf)
2010-11 Shawano County Fair Book (pdf)
Goat Description Sheet (word doc, 25.0KB)
Description of Horse Project Animal for County Fair (pdf)
County Fair Processing Fees
The basic processing fee is $2.00 per participant. Those listing 51 or more entries, fee is $5.00. Please number your entries if you are submitting more than one page.
Food Stand Fire Extinguishers
There are two fire extinguishers mounted on the wall by the entrance door. The larger, SILVER-COLORED extinguisher is for GREASE FIRES ONLY! If a fire starts on the gas grill, or in a cooking pan, this is the extinguisher to use first. It sprays a fine mist that won’t splatter the grease around. This fine mist will turn into a foam layer that smothers the fire. The smaller RED extinguisher is an A-B-C type and should be used for fires anywhere else in the food stand, but NOT for grease fires. Stand at least 8 feet away from the fire, and aim the chemical foam at the BASE of the fire. If you get closer than 8 feet away, the high pressure chemical could actually splatter burning material and spread the fire! We also have an automatic fire extinguisher system built into the hood of the gas grill where burgers are fried. If it gets hot enough, this system will automatically turn on and coat the grill with chemical foam to smother the fire. The hood system can also be activated by pulling a switch on the wall by the entrance door. This switch is located just above the two wall-mounted fire extinguishers. Do not ever pull the switch except in case of extreme fire danger.
If you have a grease fire in the cooking area, adults can try to put it out using the silver-colored fire extinguisher first. If this doesn’t work, activate the hood system by pulling the switch on the wall, if the hood system hasn’t automatically activated yet. In case of fire, everyone should get out of and far away from the food stand. Have someone call 911 immediately. Only one or two adults should remain to try and put the fire out with an extinguisher. If there’s any doubt as to whether or not it can be put out easily, that adult(s) should also get out. The food stand can be replaced, but YOU cannot be! SAVE and REVIEW this information whenever your Club is going to work in the food stand.
Fair Food Stand Funds
Leaders will soon be choosing their shifts for working at the fair food stand. Some wonder why it is necessary to help out as you feel you don’t receive any benefits from working. Actually, this is the major fundraiser for Shawano County 4-H Leader’s each year. It is because of this that we don’t need to be out there selling candy bars, pizzas or any of the other numerous possibilities. Funds here help pay for:
- Sponsorships for campers and award trip recipients
- Funds for educational grants to key committees for their events
- Literature used by members, the fee you pay for books is discounted from full price
- Volunteer background checks which cost $7 per leader. Mandatory on each leader every 4 years. Each year we have between 60-70 volunteers to be re-checked.
- Awards and discounts on meals at the annual 4-H experience.
- Support for the Adventures in Dairyland Program, a two week curriculum offered to 4th grade classrooms throughout the county by 4-H leaders & FFA members.
- Many other incidental expenses we don’t need to pass along to the members because this food stand raises that money.
So when your club leader asks you to volunteer a couple hours of your time, we hope you look at this as an opportunity to give back to the organization that has offered so much for your family this year.
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If you have any questions regarding 4-H Youth Development in Shawano County, please contact:
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Joe Stellato, Department Head and 4-H Youth Development Shawano County Courthouse 311 North Main Street, Room 101, Shawano, WI 54166 Phone: 715-526-6136 * 715-526-4875 Email: joseph.stellato@ces.uwex.edu |
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Terri Brunner, 4H Program Assistant Shawano County Courthouse 311 N Main Street, Room 101 Shawano, WI 54166-2198 Phone: 715-526-6136 Fax: 715-526-4875 Email: theresa.brunner@co.shawano.wi.us |
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Charlotte Schwartz, Office Assistant Shawano County Courthouse 311 N Main Street, Room 101 Shawano, WI 54166-2198 Phone: 715-526-6136 Fax: 715-526-4875 Email: charlotte.schwartz@co.shawano.wi.us |
