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Another successful year for Tama County Fair

Siblings Violet (left) and Wyatt (right) Upah pictured at the Tama County Fair near the new Fair Play Garden on Tuesday, July 12, in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Children merrily play one of the many games set up around the Tama County fairgrounds in Gladbrook on Tuesday, July 12. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Hope Dvorak’s bottle beef calf Cupcake looks on from the show ring during the Tama County Fair Bottle Beef Show held on Saturday, July 16, in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Greenlee Forrester, a member of Clutier Clover Kids 4-H Club, smiles for a family member located just outside the show ring during the Tama County Fair Bottle Beef Show held on Saturday, July 16, in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Ryan Hosek, a member of Buckingham Boosters 4-H Club, pictured with his British breed purebred heifer during the Tama County Fair Beef Show held on Saturday, July 16, in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Ava Monat – a Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H Club member – watches the judge (not pictured) while showing her commercial heifer during the Tama County Fair Beef Show held on Saturday, July 16, in Gladbrook. Monat took second in the class. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Ava Monat – a Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H Club member – exhibits her heifer during the Tama County Fair Beef Show’s Commercial Heifer class on Saturday, July 16, in Gladbrook. Monat took second in the class. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Hope Dvorak – a member of Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H Club – guides her bottle beef calf into the show ring on Saturday, July 16, during the Tama County Fair Bottle Beef Show in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
That’s the face of a winner! Nathan Kucera’s ewe pictured during the Tama County Fair Sheep Show on Wednesday, July 13. Kucera took both Champion Commercial Ewe and and Champion Breeding Ewe in the show.–Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Chance Forrester shows his black faced market lamb during the Tama County Sheep Show on July 13 in Gladbrook. Forrester, a Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H Club member, took second in the class and third in the Overall Market Lamb competition. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Thomas Hulme (left) assists his younger sister Emily Hulme (right) with her market pair lambs during the Tama County Fair Sheep Show on Wednesday, July 13. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
North Tama High School 2022 graduate Nathan Kucera pictured during the Tama County Sheep Show on July 13 in Gladbrook. Kucera won Champion Commercial Ewe (black faced), Champion Commercial Ewe, Champion Breeding Ewe, Reserve Champion Breeding Pair Lambs, and Champion Market Lamb. This is Kucera’s final year of exhibiting at the Tama County Fair. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Lane Boldt – North Tama FFA member – pictured during the Tama County Fair Dairy Show held on Thursday, July 14, on the fairgrounds in Gladbrook. The Dairy Show made its return to the fair this year after an absence in 2021 due to zero entries. –Photo by Cyote Williams
Chance Forrester, a Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H member, pictured during the Tama County Fair Dairy Show held on Thursday, July 14, on the fairgrounds in Gladbrook. Forrester took home Supreme Champion Overall – the Mike Shope Memorial Award – as well as Junior Showmanship with his Holstein cow. The Dairy Show made its return to the fair this year after an absence in 2021 due to zero entries. –Photo by Cyote Williams
The entrance to the improved play area for youngsters, the Fair Play Garden, pictured on July 12. --Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Nash Hennings (left), Emmet Knaack (center), and Dustin Cibula (right) lounge in the sandbox that is part of the new Fair Play Garden on the Tama County fairgrounds in Gladbrook on Tuesday, July 12. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker
Neeley Hennings with the Clutier Cowboys & Cowgirls 4-H Club pictured with one of her market meat goats – an unusually patterned Boer goat named Prince – on Tuesday, July 12 in the Goat Barn in Gladbrook. –Photo by Ruby F. Bodeker

It was another successful staging of the Tama County Fair this past week from July 11-17 at the fairgrounds in Gladbrook. The multitude of events and shows were well attended. The weather stayed hot and sunny most days with only a few wet mornings interspersed. All shows were held this year including the Dairy Show which made its return to the fair on Thursday, July 14, after an absence in 2021 due to zero entries. Both this week and next week’s editions of the newspaper will feature a collection of photos taken throughout the week at the fair. Watch for a full list of livestock and non-livestock winners courtesy of the Tama County Fair Board to be published in a future edition of the North Tama Telegraph

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