4-H, FFA and Grange Quality Assurance Program in Plymouth April 3 and May 14

2011 Amador County Fair Quality Assurance

Two Programs for all 4-H, FFA and Grange Livestock Exhibitors

Sunday, April 3 at 5pm Pokerville Hall

Saturday, May 14 at 1pm Pokerville Hall

If you will have an animal* at the Amador County Fair this year it is highly recommended that you plan on attending one of these trainings.

This program also qualifies you to exhibit at the California Exhibition and State Fair.

These trainings are free to the members, leaders & parents.

They will go over management techniques, safety issues and sportsmanship conduct.

*Rabbit, Cavy, Poultry, Swine, Sheep, Goat, Horse, Beef,

Amador County Fair recognized with top industry honors for 'It's a Jungle Out There'

The 2010 Amador County Fair has been recognized in eight categories in the annual Western Fair Association Achievement Awards competition.

As reported in the Ledger Dispatch the Amador County Fair chalked up three first- and a third- place winners the fair's marketing and communication pieces for the Amador County Fair's 2010 "It's A Jungle Out There" theme. WFA is composed of member fairs and large special events in the western United States, plus major shows in Canada. The Amador County Fair competed against other fairs of similar size.

Top honors went to poster art by Rand Huggett, and the KSEG radio commercial. Other awards were for newspaper ads, display advertising and direct mail, plus the fair's recreational vehicles policies handbook and the Junior Livestock Auction Policy Handbook.

CEO Troy Bowers and board members Robert Manassero, Frank Halvorson, Ciro Toma, Marilyn Hoopes, Chuck Simmons, Jeannie Deaver, Mike Boitano and Jan Howard were on hand at the annual achievement awards dinner to receive the awards, all decked out with purple hats and boas, the favorite color of former CEO Susan Clark, who was inducted into the WFA Hall of Fame.

Looking forward to another award-winning fair, the 2011 event will aim to catch the eye of the judges in the next competition. "Dancing with the Steers" is the new theme.

The Amador County Fair will be held July 28 through 31. For more information, visit www.AmadorCountyFair.com, and follow them on Facebook.