By Michael V. Hannigan
We recorded a podcast yesterday previewing the 54th Annual Henderson County Livestock Show, and during the podcast Jeff Weinstein asked me a question I couldn’t answer.
He asked how many kids will take part in the Livestock Show during the week.
So today, I tracked down Henderson County AgriLife Extension Agent Rick Hirsch and asked him, and Rick said there would be between 500 and 600 students participating with nearly 1,800 entries.
“That’s everything across the week,” Rick said.
That’s a lot of kids.
Rick and I both agreed that one of the neatest things about the Livestock Show is that it includes the entire county. Students from all four corners of Henderson County come to the fairgrounds for the show.
“This is every part of the county working together,” Rick said.
He pointed out that Monday is setup day and yesterday saw groups of kids from all the different schools working together, under the direction of their ag teachers and other adult leaders, to set up the fairgrounds for the show.
“It was all empty and in about five hours we were ready for animals,” said Rick. “(The students) were getting some life skills doing that.”
