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How do you enter? This is just as easy. Load up your items ABOUT N.C. COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
and bring them to the fairgrounds September 25-28. Please N.C. Cooperative Extension is a strategic partnership of NC
check the website for the specific times each day. When you State University, N.C. A&T State University, USDA’s Na-
get there, someone will make sure you have an exhibitor num- tional Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), and
ber and there will be loads of volunteers on hand to help get local governments statewide. Extension professionals in all
you registered. Each item will be tagged and logged. You 100 counties, and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,
will get a receipt for each item tagged. Then you go home and connect millions of North Carolinians with research-based in-
wait. The judges will come in before the fair and judge every formation and technology from NC State and N.C. A&T. Edu-
item, awarding placings in each category. Along with the blue cational programs specialize in agriculture, food and nutrition,
and red ribbon goes a little bit of prize money that you will be 4-H youth development, community development and the en-
able to pick up, along with your item, the Sunday afternoon vironment. Find your local center at www.ces.ncsu.edu/local-
after the fair closes (October 11). It’s nice to be able to say “I county-center.
took a blue-ribbon photo,” or “My jam won a blue ribbon at
the county fair,” or maybe “My fern was the best in show of
all items at the fair.” You never know what might happen. So,
start planning and setting
aside items now to enter in
what will surely be the best
fair Robeson County and
surrounding counties have
ever seen.

For more information,
contact Shea Ann DeJar-
nette, Extension 4-H Youth
Development Agent with
North Carolina Cooperative
Extension, Robeson County
Center, at 671-3276, or by
E-mail at Shea_Ann_DeJar-
[email protected].