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Showing posts with label 4H Carroll Co 4H FFA Fair. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Skies look ominous but rain waiting for after combine demolition derby #CCFAIR
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Friday, July 26, 2013
Tractor pull is in full gear at the #CCFair at the Carroll County Ag Center
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Welcome to the Carroll County Agriculture Center Westminster MD
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Kevin Dayhoff - Eagle Archive: Celebrating Carroll County at the 4-H and FFA Fair
Eagle Archive: Celebrating Carroll County at the 4-H and FFA
Fair
By Kevin Dayhoff July 30, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/opinion-talk/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0729-20120725,0,418259.story
Carroll County Agriculture Center
has been a beehive of activity in preparation of the annual Carroll County 4-H
and FFA Fair, which officially opened on July 27.
Historically, the summer and end of harvest events have
always played an important role in Carroll County because of the region's
agricultural roots.
Prior to 1865, the business of farming was, for the most
part, our subsistence existence. Farmers were essentially self-sufficient.
However, after the Civil War, farmers became increasingly
"dependent on creditors, merchants and railroads for their
livelihoods," according to James Stewart of Reed College, who has
concentrated his studies on this period of agriculture and economics.
"These relationships created opportunities for economic gain, but also
obligations, hardships and risks that many farmers did not welcome."
In Carroll, this period evoked celebrations of the farming
way of life. A "program of events" found in an 1871 publication of
the oldAmerican Sentinel refers to a "Grand Exhibition of Farm
machinery under the auspices of the Carroll County Agriculture Society on the Fair Grounds, Westminster, MD."
Actually, the first authoritative mention of an organized
agricultural fair event in Carroll County occurs in 1869. Nancy Warner writes
in her book, "Carroll County Maryland, A History," that on Jan. 11,
1869, the Carroll County Agricultural Society was organized "at a meeting
at the Court House."
"Capital of $25,000 was raised through the sale of 500
shares of stock at $50.00 per share. Thirty acres of land was bought between
the present Fair Street and Malcolm Drive," Warner wrote.
It is believed that the first agricultural fair in Carroll
County may have taken place on July 4, 1869, on East Main Street in Westminster
— though the current Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair celebrates its roots going
back to a picnic held Aug. 14, 1897, at the Otterdale Schoolhouse, in
Taneytown.
The fair moved to Westminster in 1954. The Carroll County
Agriculture Center was established as a private organization on March 20, 1954,
by a group of visionary leaders who purchased the land at the end of an old
dirt lane off Gist Road, way outside of town — or at least it was back then —
with their own money.
This year's fair runs through Saturday, Aug. 4, with racing
pigs, the annual Combine Demolition Derby, Wild West Night, Car Demolition
Derby, Lawn Mower Racing, Tractor Pull and more. Many are looking forward to
seeing country music singer and songwriter Kip Moore on Aug. 4, at 8 p.m.
For a calendar of events and more information, go to
carrollcountyfair.com.
See you at the fair.
When he is not eating his way from one end of the fair to
the other, Kevin Dayhoff …
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Generations have been touched by Frock's 4-H and church leadership By Kevin Dayhoff, May 3, 2012
Eagle Archive: Generations have been touched by Frock's 4-H
and church leadership http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0506-20120502,0,7820360.story
By Kevin Dayhoff, May 3, 2012 Labels: 4H, 4H
Carroll Co 4H FFA Fair, Ag
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Fourteen years ago — on April 12, 1998 — the Baltimore Sun carried
an article about my neighbor and good friend, Kathryn Myers Frock, in which it
was noted:
"The Westminster woman, who is believed to be the
longest-serving 4-H volunteer in the country, was surprised recently to be
honored for 58 years of volunteer service.
"Fifty-eight years? thought Frock. Why 58?
"'Maybe they don't think I'm going to be here for 60
years,' she said with a smile."
Well, Frock made it to 60 years. As a matter of fact, make
that 74 years that she was a 4-H leader and volunteer fair judge.
That said, with Frock, it was not as much about the quantity
of years, but the quality.
Frock passed away on April 26 at age 94. http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0506-20120502,0,7820360.story
4-H, agriculture, volunteers, church, community,
Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland,
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Related and Updated for Kathryn Frock:
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Kathryn
A. Myers Frock, 94, of Westminster, died April 26, 2012 at Emeritus at
Westminster. http://www.prittsfuneralhome.com/vcalendar/event_view.php?event_id=245
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Westminster Eagle - Katie V. Jones: Kathryn Frock touts
merits of 4-H life
Fair 'queen' touts merits of 4-H life 07/26/06 By Katie V.
Jones
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obituaries
When Kathryn Frock joined 4-H in 1934, there were girl 4-H
clubs and boy 4-H clubs. If you lived on a farm and worked with animals,
however, you were allowed to belong to a "co-ed club."
In those days the fair was held in Taneytown, before moving
to its current location behind the Agricultural Center in Westminster.
To build the buildings at the new site, the 4-H clubs raised
money through various methods such as making moccasins and selling household
"guidebooks."
At 89, Frock has more than 60 years of memories of being in
4-H, first as a member, then as a leader and currently as a judge… http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2006/08/westminster-eagle-katie-v-jones-kathryn.html
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Accolades mark a life of volunteering Westminster woman
lauded for 4-H service April 12, 1998 By Sheridan Lyons
Accolades mark a life of volunteering Westminster woman
lauded for 4-H service
By Sheridan Lyons SUN STAFF http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-04-12/news/1998102100_1_4-h-volunteer-carroll-county-frock
The Westminster woman who is believed to be the
longest-serving 4-H volunteer in the country was surprised recently to be
honored for 58 years of volunteer service.
Fifty-eight years? thought Kathryn Frock. Why 58?
"Maybe they don't think I'm going to be here for 60
years," she said with a smile last week.
If there were a grandmaster of homemaking, Frock, 80, would
qualify: Her skills range from the "seven-day pickles" she puts up to
the carefully centered daisy buttons on a dress she made in 1936 that swept 4-H
Club local, state and national needlework honors.
…
[…]
"This woman is phenomenal," said Bob Shirley,
Carroll County's recently retired extension agent for 4-H. "The amount of
volunteer work she's still doing and the number of organizations she's giving
support to. And she still is a very strong, active leader," he said.
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