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By Gary A. DeVonManaging Editor

Four young ladies have thrown their hats into the ring for a chance to reign as next year’s 2014 Okanogan County Fair Queen. All hail from various communities around the county, they are Miranda Cleveland, Emily Rawson, Kathryn Cleman and Lily White.The would-be queens will attend a pageant on the evening of Thursday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. on the Main Stage of the fair. Candidates try-ing out for the 2014 Okanogan County Fair Queen are judged in four areas: They must complete a portfolio including an essay and letters of recommendation, as well as other things; they must participate in the pageant on Thursday, modeling and giving a speech and answering impromptu questions; they have personal interviews with a panel of judges and they are judged by “secret judges” during the fair, according to Madison Schellenbarger, Fair Queen Advisor. These secret judges ob-serve how well they interact with the public, said Schellenbarger.The Coronation for the new queen will take place on Sunday, Sept. 8 at 2 p.m., also on the Main Stage.Here are short bios from three of the girls who provided the Gazette-Tribune a little bit of in-formation about themselves and their families below:Kathryn Cleman

Kathryn Cleman is the daughter of Chris and Doreen Cleman. She is currently a senior at Tonasket High School and is 17-years-old. Kathryn is involved in many sports including: soccer, basketball and track. In the summer she works as a babysitter and does commu-nity service work in her church. Kathryn has been a participant in the county fair for eight

years. She has shown horses and a steer, as well as canned goods. She is also involved in FFA, ASB and 4-H.

Emily RawsonEmily Rawson is 16-years-old and attends Okanogan High School. She is the child of Matthew and Monica Rawson of Malott,

Wash. She has one brother, Nathan Rawson who is 14 and also attends Okanogan High School. Emily enjoys riding her horse and raising pigs. She is an active member in both FFA and 4-H. She will be attending the FFA Na-tional Convention in October. She is carrying on the tradition of working at her grandpar-ent’s store, Rawson’s Department Store.

Miranda ClevelandMiranda Cleveland is the daughter of Chad and Marnee Cleveland and sister to Spen-cer. She is 17-years- old and is a resident of Okanogan. She is a senior at Okanogan High School, but also participates in Running Start at Wenatchee Valley College. Miranda has been a participant in the county fair for the last nine years. Her main project is market lambs, but she also shows horses and many still life exhibits. Miranda enjoys her ani-mals, showing her horses, and making tradi-tional native beading. She has been a mem-ber of 4-H for the past six years. Miranda is honored to be running as a candidate for Okanogan County Fair Queen.

Lily WhiteLily White is sixteen, lives in Twisp and at-tends Liberty Bell High School.

Four seek to reign over next year’s county fair

L-R Menze Pickering, Emily Rawson, Kathryn Cleman and Miranda Cleveland

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H o w d y ! I am the 2013 Okano-gan County Fair Queen, Menze Pickering. I would like to invite everyone to this year’s 66th annual Okanogan County Fair “Traditions Ride On.” I live in Oroville Washing-ton and attend Oroville High School as a senior this year. The fair has al-ways been a big part of my life and being able to represent and tell people what the fair has to offer is such an honor.I have participated in the fair since I was eight-years-old, at nine I was the youngest to win the Hershey’s Coco Classic contest. That was such a thrill that I kept partici-pating in putting baked goods in the fair. At 13 I had gotten my � rst horse, Splash, and started show-ing and competing at the fair and ever since then I have been at the fair with my horse. Last year I had decided to run for Fair Queen because of my love for the fair and my horse.Throughout this year I have traveled to a lot of events, such as parades and rodeos. Not only have I been to almost all the events in the county but I also traveled to Cana-da and Spokane. I have learned so much through this past year and met a

lot of other rodeo queens in our state. One big high-light for this year was be-ing able to travel around with one of my best Queen friends, Rebecca Smoak, as she represents Ferry County Fair. We had so much fun going to different parades and ro-deos together.As a goal that I had set for myself I had decided I would like to give back to the fair and help them in a certain way. So I set aside some of my time and with the help of my mother and father, we decided to power wash and cleane up the north end bathroom and also added a fresh coat of paint! It was a big job -- every bit of help to clean up out fair helps!I would like to give out a huge thank you to all my sponsors and my parents Rick and Lisa Pickering. Also to my Queen Advi-sor Madison Shellenbarg-er and Boone McKinney for taking my horse and I to events that my parents were unable to drive me too. I would like to extend to everyone a personal invi-tation to attend this years Okanogan County Fair. Come through the gates and believe me, you will create great memories! I will de� nitely not be missing a minute of this fair and neither should you!

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By Brent [email protected]

TONASKET - The Deebach kids have been Okanogan County Fair participants since before they were three years old. So they have a pretty good idea what they’re getting into.Jacie (age 8), Maia (7) and Tommy (4) are steeped in the traditions of the fair, as well as many of the ins and outs of raising animals as their dad, Matt, is the guiding light behind Tonasket High School’s highly-regarded FFA program.Jacie is coming off a solid showing last year, highlighted by winning pre-junior Grand Champion for Fitting and Showing (sheep) as well as Reserve Grand Champion for her educational display. This year she’s showing a sheep she named Bob Frapples.“My uncle names most things Bob Frapples,” Jacie says. “I was being silly about it.”Jacie said this is her second year showing sheep, and that she loves learning about the animals.“I switched (from bottle calves to sheep) because I wanted to learn about them,” she says. “Someday I want to do pigs, and then maybe steers.”Maia, a year younger, will be showing her lamb Prince Charming. Like her older sister, last year she won Reserve Grand Champion for her educational display and in Lads and Lassie Pre-junior Grand Herdsmanship (4-H), plus a number of ribbons. In the Lad and Lassie, Maia had to dress up in wool - something her lamb could have produced - and show the lamb while in that attire. Last year she wore a wool vest.“I really like showing my lamb,” Maia says. Maia’s secret ambition is to take an ostrich to the county fair.“Dad says if I can catch one,” Maia says, “then I can take it.”The kids’ mom, Tara, says that wasn’t the only promise Matt had made.“He said the same thing about wild chickens and rabbits,” she laughs.Tommy said he has enjoyed getting his calf ready to show at the fair.“I like how he’s really nice,” he says. “I call him ‘Cowboy’ because he’s a boy and he’s a cow.Someday, he says, “I’d like to try a pig or a steer.”Tara added that Cowboy was an orphan.“We got it from Double R Ranch,” she says. “Tommy

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TOP: Jacie (left) and Maia Deebach, along with their sheep Bob Frapples and Prince Charming, are ready for next week’s Okanogan County Fair.BELOW: Tommy Deebach says he’s looking forward to showing his bottle calf Cowboy at the fair this year.Photos by Brent Baker

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OROVILLE – She may be just four-years-old, but Shiloh Willis, born and raised around animals, thinks big, maybe not as big as a standard horse, but she is entering her pony in this year’s Okanogan County Fair.With the help of her parents, Aaron and Libby Willis of Oroville, Shiloh answered a few questions about her experience with animals and why she enjoys raising them. According to her mom one of the young girl’s first experiences with taking care of animals happened shortly after she learned to walk, and that was helping to raise a litter of Great Dane puppies.“She even knows how to clear an airway for a puppy that is born lifeless,” said her mother.Her favorite animal? Libby Willis says Shiloh’s favorite animals are as follows and in this order: ponies, ducks and unicorns.“I love to feed them and clean up after them because they really learn to love humans when you take care of them like that,” Shiloh said in response to what was her favorite part of about raising animals.She also has advise for someone who wants to raise their first animal.“When you get an animal you have to know you are going to be keeping it forever. You have to care

for them before you get to eat your own breakfast,” said Rosie, adding that this is a lesson she was taught by her parents.“Make sure you have the right type of pen and house for them so that they are always safe from harm,” she said.She has a a lot of animals, but her favorite is her fair project, a pony named Rosie.She said that one of their “big” horses thinks that Rosie is her baby, even though Rosie is older.. “When it rains, Rosie stands under the big horse for shelter. Its so cute!” Shiloh said.Shiloh explained that Rosie doesn’t eat nearly as much as the big horses. She said the pony eats one flake of hay and two cups of grain in the morning and at night. “If she gets more then that, then she gets really chubby and doesn’t want to go for rides,” Shiloh adds.Other care that she gives her pony includes keeping her water clean and full, brushing her and making sure that she is always healthy and has everything she needs.“Shiloh has been working hard to prepare for fair. Her pony was not broke to ride prior to this year so she has been teaching her to lunge, accept the saddle and bridal and how to stop and turn both directions,” said her mom. “They are learning to become a smooth working team which makes for a great, lifelong partnership and success at the fair!”

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Throughout day Penelope the Clown9:00 am Fairgrounds open to public9:00 am Market Swine Judging9:00 am Rabbit Judging9:00 am – 3:00 pm (Horse classes) Intermediate and Adult Horse Fitting & Showing

– North Arena, Adult Riding and Halter classes – North Arena, Intermediate Riding classes – North Arena, Senior and Junior Fitting & Showing – South Arena, Youth Halter classes – South Arena, Senior and Junior Riding classes – South Arena

10:00 am Produce Judging Contest-south of Arts & Crafts Building10:30 am Rowdy Refs – Main Stage11:30 am PUD Demonstration12:00 pm FFA Tractor Driving CDE Competition-Infi eld1:00 pm Rabbit fi tting and showing demonstration2:00 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage3:00 pm Davis Shows Northwest Carnival opens4:00 pm Rabbit toenail trimming demonstration5:00 pm Rowdy Refs – Main Stage6:00 pm Rabbit agility course demonstration7:00 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage6:30 pm Youth Horsemanship Class sponsored by Sam & Raci McKee7:00 pm Royalty Pageant - Main Stage After Pageant – Project 3:16 Band – Main Stage10:00 pm Fairgrounds closed to public

Throughout the day – Penelope the Clown8:00 am – 12:00 pm Horse Gaming in both Arenas8:30 am Livestock Judging CDE; Agronomy Judging CDE to follow9:00 Fairgrounds open to public9:00 am – 4:00 pm Scavenger Hunt in Photography BarnTBA Frozen T-Shirt Contest – Rabbit Barn10:00 am Paul Isaak – Main Stage10:30 am Round Robin Fitting & Showing Contests10:30 am Mutton Bustin’11:00 am Best Dressed Rabbit contest11:15 am Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage12:30 pm Berrinzhe Norteno Mexican Band – Main Stage1:00 pm Okanogan Roping Club Team Roping & Women’s Barrels –

Rodeo Arena1:00 pm Dancing Horses - Grandstands1:00 pm On the Track: Horse Races, Junior and Senior Pony Express,

Women’s Pony Express of two horses1:00 pm Low Rider Racing – during Horse Races1:30 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage2:45 pm Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage3:00 pm Market Livestock Sale – Berg Pavillion3:00 pm Rabbit Tattooing3:00 pm Davis Shows Northwest Carnival4:00 pm Rabbit Breed ID Quiz4:30 pm Mutton Bustin’5:00 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage5:00 pm Truck & Tractor Pull – Grandstands6:00 pm Scout/Cub night (former & present scout gathering) – Cub

Scout Barn – back of Commercial Bldg.6:30 pm Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage7:00 pm Rabbit Agility7:00 pm Rodeo - GrandstandsIntermission during Rodeo - Dancing Horses9:00pm – 11:00pm Band on Main Stage11:00 pm Fairgrounds closed to public

Throughout the day Penelope the Clown9:00 am Fairgrounds open to public9:00 am Livestock, Poultry & Rabbit Fitting & Showing9:00 am – 3:00 pm: (Horse classes), Horse Trail classes (all ages) – North Arena

Youth Western classes – South Arena, English classes – South Arena, Driving classes – South Arena

10:00 am Rowdy Refs – Main Stage11:00 am PUD Demonstration11:15 am Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage11:30 am Mutton Bustin’12:00 pm Paul Isaac – Main Stage1:15 pm Rowdy Refs – Main Stage2:30 pm Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage3:00 pm Davis Shows Northwest Carnival4:00 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage4:15 pm Mutton Bustin’5:30 pm Stoddard & Cole – Main Stage5:30 pm Dancing Horses – Guillermo Hernandez from Rock Island –

Large Arena6:00 pm Horse Racing Registration – Horse Offi ce6:30 pm Truck & Tractor Pull – Grandstands7:00 pm Olivia de la Cruz – Main Stage unconfi rmed as of 8-23-138:00 pm Scott Krippayne – Main Stage10:00 pm Fairgrounds closed to public

Throughout the day – Penelope the Clown8:00 am Awards in Rabbit Barn9:00 am Fairgrounds open to public9:30 am Cowboy Church – Main Stage 10:00 am Parade of Champions10:00 am Davis Shows Northwest Carnival10:30 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage12:00 pm Horse Races12:00 pm Sign-ups for Mutton Bustin’ Finals (55 lb weight limit)12:30 am Mutton Bustin’ (Belt Buckle Finals!)1:00 pm Team Roping and Women’s Barrels1:00 pm Paul Isaak – Main Stage1:00 pm Fur & Feather Auction – Berg Pavillion2:00 pm Royalty Coronation – Main Stage3:00 pm Fairgrounds closed to public

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By Brent [email protected]

ELLISFORDE - The Tyus kids want to do well with their sheep at the Okanogan County Fair.But most important of all is finishing the weekend with family bragging rights as the three youngest of five brothers and sisters hit the stretch run before the fair.That’s especially true for Baylie, about to start her senior year at Tonasket High School, and Dallas, an incoming junior. “I don’t care what happens, as long as I beat Baylie,” Dallas says.For her part, Baylie brings up their lambs’ genetics.“Our lambs are twins,” she says. “But I’m always, like, ‘Mine’s better than yours.’”Morgan, about to start eighth grade, might well trump her older siblings - and has before. At her first fair as a fourth grader, in Grandview before the family moved to Tonasket, she turned out a reserve grand champion in her first effort.“I named her Pearl, because she was really white,” Morgan says. Between being a winner, as well as Morgan developing an attachment to her first lamb, parents Jay and Julie Tyus purchased their own lamb back out of the market. Pearl has ended up producing a number of other sheep that the kids have shown at the Grandville and Okanogan fairs.“Jay and I weren’t together on the decision to buy Pearl back,” Julie says. “But I was brokenhearted, that we would have no lambs, that they’d be slaughtered. I just wanted to take them back home. Jay was like, no way. “(The day of the sale) Morgan had the hugest red raccoon eyes. She’d been crying all morning. The price kept going up and up, and then Jay caved and we bought it.”“It was a great ‘fair decision’ but not a great decision,” Jay adds. “To buy an animal twice to keep

on feeding it? But it has produced some good animals.”Despite wanting to outdo one another, the three siblings work together to raise their sheep, including reimbursing their parents for some of the feed and using proceeds from their own fair sales to buy sheep with which to breed.“ We helped our parents pitch in and buy bred ewes,” Dallas says. “They each birthed out two lambs. We took two each to the Grandview fair, paid them back and pitched in and bought the ram.”“The babies (this year) were born in February or March, but we didn’t have much luck,” Baylie says. “We had a couple that didn’t make it and some that were bottle babies.“Only two of the seven were healthy. Five made it, but only two did it on their own.”It was the first year that they had bred sheep on their current property; it turned out the area near Ellisforde that they live is low on selenium. But with a little TLC, the three have sheep that were just about ready to go and certainly haven’t been lacking for energy.For Dallas, some of the best part of the fair is the preparation beforehand.“My favorite parts are the sheep rodeos out here catching them,” he says. “One time I was trying to tackle one to the ground (but) it ducked its head and I flipped over it.”He admits that fitting and showing isn’t his strong point, which Baylie was eager to point out.“It’s all about controlling your lamb, even if it’s not working with you,” she says. “So Dallas was showing, he was against the fence, the judge was in the corner. He forgot how to turn it so he walked up to (his lamb), stopped and stepped right over the top of her.”Dallas had a slightly different take.“(The judge) said to never show her my back,” he said. “She was walking to check out the rear legs,

and I didn’t want to show her my back so I just stepped over. At least she laughed and didn’t kick me out.”Morgan’s first showing, however, was the stuff of family legend. As a fourth grader the first time in the ring in Grandview, she wasn’t entirely certain what she was supposed to do.“She watched the bigger girls,” Baylie says. “A high school girl would smile and do a turn and Morgan would smile and turn and move her feet exactly the same way.”“When the judge lined us up, first to last. I was the second one,” Morgan says. “I thought I was next-to-last, but when (the judge) gave the person next to me the grand prize, that meant I was reserve grand champion.”As for their goals this year, Dallas said he hoped to make more with his market sale than his sisters and Morgan is hoping to make enough money to help fund a trip to Disneyland for a dance class.Baylie, entering her final Okanogan County Fair, was hoping for some family success.“It would be good to get callbacks for both market and fitting and showing,” she says. “What would be cool is if all three of us did.”

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By Gary A. DeVonManaging Editor

OROVILLE – Kane and Brodey Booker are following in their older grown siblings footsteps and entering animals in the Okanogan County Fair.Kane, six, and Brodey, four, will be exhibiting chickens at the fair, their first year of showing animals. They have three hens and a rooster in a chicken coop out in the family’s backyard.“They’ve been going to the fair since they were born, they watched their older brother and sister take pigs, chickens and steers to the fair,” said Daphne, their mom.“So now they think it’s their turn, we’re going on about 12 years of kids taking their animals to the fair,” adds Ed, their dad.“We had five chickens but lost one,” said Kane, showing off the chicken coop.“The pen was built by daddy, pappa and Austin,” added Brodey, referring to his dad, grandfather Gordon Cockle and older brother Austin.The boys say they feed their chickens “scratch” from the store, as well as giving them treats of cabbage and other things like corn on the cob.“Cantaloupe is their favorite,” Brodey said.“We also need to make sure they have clean water,” adds Kane.

The boys also gather fresh eggs each morning.The Bookers said that exhibiting chickens involves more than just raising them and taking them to the fair. There is “fitting and showing” and the boys will be asked questions about their animals. They also have to help with keeping the Fur and Feathers Barn clean and tidy. On Sunday there is an auction where people can bid on their animals.Having a coop with a rooster in one’s backyard means you need to have some pretty special neighbors.“Normally he crows all day long, starting about 4:30 a.m., but we haven’t had any complaints from the neighbors,” said their dad. “The fair is a pretty cool experience for the kids, they camp at the fairgrounds and they learn additional responsibility having to clean the barn,” he adds. “They watched their two older siblings go from being scared to death in front of a huge crowd to becoming comfortable with it. I think it helps them grow.”“They also meet kids they met the previous year... they run around the fairground like they’re in their own little world,” adds mom.In addition to getting their poultry ready for the fair, the boys have been enjoying their summer swimming and golfing, as well as riding four-wheelers out at their grandparents, say their mom and dad.

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Kane and Brodey Booker and their dad and mom, Ed and Daphne, talk about the boys carrying on a family tradition of exhibiting at the Okanogan County Fair.

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TONASKET - As big family events go, it’s hard to top the Okanogan County Fair for the Bolich and Wilson cousins.Three of the four Bolich kids (with the fourth sure to join them before long) and the four Wilson kids are all experienced fair participants. Moms Angie Bolich and Jennie Wilson are sisters, and for the uninitiated it’s easy to play mix-n-match with the kids and never know it.Megan, Rachel and Lane Bolich are all showing pigs at the fair, as are Anna, Emma and Colton Wilson. Heidi Wilson will be taking a chicken.“We used to show sheep,” Megan (age 13) said of her side of the family. “This is our second year with pigs.”In the past Megan has won quite a few ribbons for showing sheep, but in her first year with a pig took Reserve Grand Champion, Feeder.“I just like going to the fair,” Megan says. “A lot of my friends are there, from Tonasket and other towns, too.”Lane (10) did particularly well showing sheep, including one year where he was Grand Champion for Fitting and Showing.“I was the first in the family to switch to pigs,” Lane says, as he goes into his third year doing so. “A couple of my friends were doing it. Last year I got two call-backs - one in Market and one in Fitting and Showing. I’m trying Hereford pigs this year.”Lane says he intends to try showing a steer when he gets big enough.“My friends take all sorts of animals,” he says. “They show sheep, horses, cows. I have friends in all the barns.”Rachel (8) is also in her second year with pigs and has been showing at the fair since she was five.“I like them better,” she says. “I got bored with sheep. It’s kind of funner showing pigs.”With sheep she took a number of ribbons in breeder and Fitting and Showing.“It’s harder to get awards with pigs,” she says.She also enjoys hopping on the rides.“I really like the one that goes up and down and around,” Rachel says. “I think it was the Ali Baba.”

On the Wilson side, Anna (9) says she’s been attending the fair since she was about two years old. This year she’s showing a pig she calls Rocksy.“He doesn’t really do anything,” she says. “So when I was trying to think of a good name, ‘Oh, Rocksy is perfect.’”This is Anna’s second year with pigs; she has shown cows and goats in the past.

“I definitely remember showing cows,” Anna says. “My first cow that I took, Hannah, was really nice and gentle, but she was huge for my size.”Anna boasts a number of ribbons,

she says, mostly from the cow barn.Emma (8) will be showing her pig Root this year.“It just likes to root around a lot,” she says.She started in the calf farm at age 3, and this year is her second year showing a pig.“Freckle won a blue ribbon last year,” Emma says. “(In an earlier year) my goat won me a Grand Champion. Mine had horns. It was

creepy, but he was very nice.”Emma said her favorite part of the fair is the pig barn.“I like both my pigs and the other pigs,” she says.Colton (6) is showing a pig that he named Skunk - thankfully, not because of his smell.“He has a skunk face,” Colton says. “His body is black and his face is part white.”He says he was the youngest of his family to start taking animals to the fair.“I did good with my calf,” he says. “I think I got second one year. He was kind of feisty.”Colton says he enjoys camping at the fair with friends, cousins, grandparents, aunts and uncles.“I really like staying in the camper,” he says.Heidi (4) will be taking a chicken this year. Last year she showed a duck.“It was huge,” Heidi says, though her sisters pointed out she spent much of her time laying on it. “My chicken’s name is Rosie,” she says. “It was Joe, but I changed it. When

I first got it was when they were in the house (incubator).”Heidi says she has a lot of fun at the fair.“My family all goes,” she says. “And there’s a magic show that I like.”

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Five-year-old Carley Pillow, three years running as a Grand Champion onion grower, shows off some of the onions she grew this year at her grandpa’s house in Oroville. These are just small potatoes compared to the nearly plate sized onions she will be entering in the Okanogan County Fair this year. In the past she has also grown onions at her grandmothers in Tonasket. This year, her sister Lily, only 18-months-old, the same age as Carley when she first started, will also be exhibiting onions in the fair.Gary DeVon/staff photo

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