Special edition inside today’ Labette Avenue provides all the details of the fair!
More than 100 international representatives from all over the world including Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada and the United States, toured the Boss Tank facility in Oswego last Friday. The group also toured the Tank Connection Affiliate Group in Parsons and the Atec Steel Fabrication and Construction facility in Baxter Springs. These three facilities offer bolted and welded dry bulk and liquid storage tanks. Shown above is a large tank in the paint booth, some of the tanks are over 14-ft. diameter and 85-ft. in length.
The Labette County Farm Bureau will again make a highly visible presence at the fair.
The Farm Bureau Tent will be open at 6 p.m. each night Tuesday through Friday and featured attractions will be the 4-H Petting Zoo and Farm Fun Center. Area youth and farm families will share a variety of animals at the petting zoo. The Farm Fun Center provides activities and displays for all ages. Members of Labette County Farm Bureau host activities at the FB Tent.
See this week’s Labette Avenue for a complete listing.
For more information, see the July 22, 2009, issue of the Labette Avenue. To locate previously posted death notices, enter the decedent’s last name in the archive search box on Labette Avenue’s home page. Labette Avenue publishes death notices free of charge. Paid obituaries ($20) are printed in their entirety in the Labette Avenue and online at www.taylornews.org/lba.
An Oswego teenager, Stuart Keener, is in Denver auditioning for the ninth season of American Idol — along with 15,000 others.
Stuart and his family left on Friday for preliminary auditions which were set for Tuesday. Stuart is the son of Walter and Beverly Keener of Oswego and he is a 2009 graduate of Oswego High School.
Sunday was spent standing in line for hours to register, according to his father.
Read the entire story in this week’s Labette Avenue.
There are several special opportunities for youth 15 years and under, who are 4-H members and non-members, to enter in the open class divisions at the fair.
The public sometimes considers the fair only for 4-H members and adults; this isn’t true in Labette County. Youth have always been able to enter in all divisions, but there are divisions in “Clothing-Textiles”, “Foods”, “Photography”, “Special Crafts” and a new one this year–”Canning” especially for 15 years and under.
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