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Mother Lode Fair 2019
Sonora, California
Head, Heart, Hands and Health Hayley Hansen started with 4-H at age 11 and with FFA at 16. She’s also a Class of 2019 gradu- ate of Sonora High. She starts at Columbia College in August and plans to focus on kinesiology, the study of joint movement in sports medicine. Kennedy Hansen is in sixth grade at Columbia Elementary. Nicole Hansen starts her junior year at Sonora High in August, and she plans to join the Air Force or some other military service after high school. The other day while she worked with her steer, Charlie, she wore a shiny silver belt buckle her great-grandfather won at the 1973 Pony Express Rodeo at the Mother Lode Fair. The Mother Lode Fair’s Junior Livestock and Small Livestock auctions are touted as a high point and conclusion of a year’s activity for many Tuolumne County 4-H, FFA and Independent exhibitors. Today’s 4-H programs are rooted in ag clubs that began more than 100 years ago, and each H stands for Head, Heart, Hands and Health. Today, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agri- culture administers and runs 4-H nationwide. Contact Guy McCarthy at gmccarthy@uniondemocrat.com or 588-4585. Follow him on Twitter at @GuyMcCarthy.
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Montano, a Tuolumne County 4-H’er, is raising three of her auction rabbits in a meat pen, so they have to be matched by body weight. Two other rabbits will be up for auction as single fryers. For the three sold together, she reckons she might get anywhere from $150 to $250. “That would be good, and that money would help me pay for college, so that would be awe- some,” Montano said. At Colum- bia College, Montano hopes to study social work or something in law. She’s been raising rabbits for four years, since she was 13, and this is her last year doing it. She has 21 rabbits altogether, includ- ing her first pet rabbit, Oliver Rocket. Oliver Rocket is not go- ing to auction or exhibit at this year’s Mother Lode Fair.
processes broiler chickens at her family’s Lazy JH Farm off Old Jacksonville Road. She and her family also raise American Guinea hogs for meat year-round at the Lazy JH. That’s why she’s doing an exhibit on the hog piglets, to teach people about the breed. After high school, Hampton said she hopes to go to Modesto Jr. College and live on campus and take care of animals and poultry there. She did some job-shadowing this year at Mono Way Veterinary Hospital and said she’s going to volunteer this summer at Mono Way Vet because she wants to be a veterinarian when she finishes school.
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Nicole Henson, 16 (top left), is raising a 12-month-old, 1,100-pound steer named Charlie, and she hopes to see her ani- mal sold at this year’s Junior Livestock Auction on July 6. Kenne- dy Henson, 10 (top right) , tends to her 210-pound Hampshire pig named Oreo. Mary Montano, 17 (above), a Class of 2019 graduate of Sonora High School, is raising Californian rabbits for the Small Livestock Auction at the Mother Lode Fair.
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