Waitsburg Hosts Annual Livestock Show
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Grace Coulston shows a stubborn steer whose boss. Coulston earned FFA Goat Grand Champion Showman.
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg fairgrounds was bustling as participants and viewers arrived to attend the 63rd annual Waitsburg Livestock Show and Fair on Sat., June 10.
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Jared Farley earned FFA Beef Grand Champion Showman.
The longstanding Waitsburg tradition – originally known as the Waitsburg Junior Livestock Show – was once open only to 4-H and FFA members, but now welcomes open class entries from youth and adults in Walla Walla County.
Results from this year's fair can be found below.
While garnering tidbits for Pioneer Portraits we found the article at right, written 25 years ago by Joanna Lanning, that we thought would be of interest to our readers. In it, the late Don Thomas shares the history of the livestock show and describes the efforts that went into building the structure, then called the Community Fieldhouse, that now bears his name.
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