News: Granton - Livestock Exhibitors (Top Awards - 1982)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Garbisch, Rollins, Spaete, Eibergen, Hasz, Coyle, Lindow, Fleischman, Steiner

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 8/26/1982

Granton-Livestock Exhibitors (Top Awards - 1982)

Clark County exhibitors walked away with top honors in the hog show at the Northwest Junior Livestock Show held at Eau Claire last week. Cheryl Garbisch, a member of the Granton FFA and the present Miss Clark County, was named the recipient of the Eau Claire Leader award for being the top swine exhibitor over the past four years. She received a check.

Dave Rollins and Doug Spaete, both members of the Granton FFA, took first and second place trophies for rate of gain in the swine show.

In the carcass contest following the show, all top five places went to the Granton exhibitors. Grand Champion went to Eric Eibergen with reserve grand champion going to Darryl Hasz. Third place went to Eric Eibergen, fourth to Ollie Coyle, and fifth to Dawn Eibergen. Of the top ten pigs at the show, five were exhibited by the Eibergen children.

Kim Lindow, a member of the Chili 4-H, exhibited the reserve grand champion barrow in the live show. Class champions were exhibited by Dawn and Eric Eibergen of the Romadka 4-H at Granton; Darryl Hasz and Ollie Coyle of the Granton FFA; and Wayne Fleischman of the Pleasant Ridge 4-H of Granton.

There were 62 hogs exhibited at the show and over half came from the Granton community. The Granton group was under the supervision of Francis Steiner, vocational agricultural instructor at Granton High School.