Published: April 19, 2008 10:47 pm            

4-H members place at fashion contests

Garfield County 4-H Fashion Revue and Impressive Dress contests were held recently at Oakwood Mall.

The Fashion Revue contest is designed to recognize 4-H members who have sewn their own garments.

Cora Smith, of Enid Roadrunners, placed first and second in the beginning division. She was first with her apron and second with her pillow case. In the intermediate division, first place was Kristin Jackson, of Enid Roadrunners, with her skirt, and second place was Mariah Brown, of Enid Roadrunners, with her shorts.

The Impressive Dress Contest is designed to help 4-H members learn to select garments suitable for specific occasions, build a clothing wardrobe suitable to individual lifestyle and needs, and to recognize and wear properly fitted clothes. Members are asked questions on how the garments fit into their wardrobe and on the care and cleaning of their garments.

Cloverbuds doing the Impressive Contest were Morgan Messall, of Drummond, and Erin FawFaw, of Pioneer-Pleasant Vale.

Placings in the beginning division were:

• Active/casual wear, girls — first, Mckinzie McElroy, Waukomis; and second, Ricki Hess, Waukomis. Receiving blue ribbons were Kristin Jackson, Cora Smith and Mariah Brown, all of Enid Roadrunners.

• Dress wear, girls — first, Mckinzie McElroy, Waukomis; second, Ricki Hess, Waukomis; and third, Mariah Brown, Enid Roadrunners.

• Formal, girls — first, Kristin Jackson, Enid Roadrunners.

The overall grand champion was Mckinzie McElroy. Reserve grand champion was Ricki Hess.

• Active/casual wear, boys — first, Cole Hammock. Receiving blue ribbons were Taylor Neal, Aaron Gabriel, Christopher FawFaw, all of Pioneer-Pleasant Vale.

• Dress wear, boys — first, Aaron Gabriel. Receiving blue ribbons were Christopher FawFaw and Cole Hammock, both of Pioneer-Pleasant Vale.

Grand Champion was Aaron Gabriel. Reserve grand champion was Cole Hammock.

Placings in the intermediate division were:

• Active/casual, boys — first, Nicholas Denker; and Blake Gabriel, blue ribbon.

• Dress, boys — first, Blake Gabriel. Blue ribbons went to Nicholas Denker and Claye Hammock.

Grand champion was Nicholas Denker. Reserve grand champion was Blake Gabriel.

Placings in the advanced division were:

Hayley Denker, of Pioneer-Pleasant Vale, was girls grand champion in the advanced division. Derek Gabriel, of Pioneer-Pleasant Vale, was boys grand champion.



Poster contest

winners announced



The annual safety poster contest sponsored by the Garfield County 4-H was April 5 at Chisholm Trail Expo Center.

There were 149 posters entered in the contest, and all the first- and second-place posters were from students from Kremlin-Hillsdale School:

• Kindergarten — first, Taylon Roberts; and second, Angela Johnson.

• First grade — first, Taylor Parrish; and second, Calla Regier.

• Second grade — first, Austin Ellis; and second, Muddy Holt.

• Third grade — first, Corbin Lunday; and second, Mariah Blythe.

• Fourth grade — first, Rebecca Gannon; and second, Chancelor Mullins.

• Fifth grade — first, Kelsie Holt; and second, J.J. Jacobs.

• Sixth grade — first, Trev Schoenhals second, Ryan Voth.

• Seventh grade — first, Ricki Schroeder.

• Eighth grade — first, Mandy Schroeder.



4-H’ers attend Denver

Western National Roundup



A group of Oklahoma 4-Her’s took part in the 88th Denver Western National Roundup. Brian Highfill, of Chisholm 4-H, and Dani Comstock, of Pioneer-PleasantVale 4-H, were delegates from Garfield County.

Denver Western Roundup provided opportunities to take part in social and educational programs, said Cindy Conner, Garfield County 4-H youth development educator.

“Each year 4-Her’s travel to Denver to take part in hands-on learning experiences and workshops,” Conner said. “They also have the opportunity to develop greater leadership skills, discover new career ideas as well as take part in citizenship and community services.”

Dele-gates broke into groups for a variety of educational and fun workshops with topics including “Sparking the Leader In You,” “GPS Technology,” “Steps to Success,” “Re-energize Your Organi-zation” and “How to L.I.V.E Like a Real Leader.”

The group also had the opportunity to take part in an evening of “Xtreme Colorado,” which featured a variety of virtual simulators for bobsledding, kayaking, golf and hang gliding.

Highfill is the son of Greg and Misty Highfill, of North Enid, and Comstock is the daughter of Jack and Jerri Comstock, of Enid.