{"id":3243,"date":"2009-06-06T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2009-06-06T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T06:36:15","slug":"the-western-weekend-livestock-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"The Western Weekend Livestock Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Western Weekend Livestock Show and Fair<\/strong> were held Saturday at the Dance Palace for the second year, having been held for more than half a century at the Red Barn (whose current owner has renamed it and repainted it green).<\/p>\n

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William Nunes’ four-year-old dry Holstein took first place in junior showmanship while Alyssa McClure’s heifer took second<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"100_2213_1\"Thoroughly enjoying the livestock show were the dogs of Lisa Patsel, who owns Tree House bed-and-breakfast inn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Because the number of ranches<\/strong> in West Marin has been steadily shrinking, the number of entries is now tiny compared with what it was back in the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

Half a dozen cows were shown this year compared to 100 in 1962, but youths in the ranching families that still remain take the competition as seriously as ever.<\/p>\n

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4-H Club members recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the 4-H pledge<\/a><\/strong> at the beginning of Saturday’s livestock show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"100_2221\"Michelle McClure took first place in senior showmanship for Holstein cows, and Nathan Hemett took second<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Kelly Hinde of Sonoma County 4-H judges rabbits during the 4-H fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"100_2230\"Freddie Genazzi’s red slider named Ozzie took first place in the turtle competition. Although his sister wasn’t present, her turtle, whom the judge dubbed Harriet, took second<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Judge Hinde inspects a pair of mice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"100_2253\"Judges Ellie Genazzi and Terry Gray compare notes during the Western Weekend Fair’s dog show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Amelia McDonald’s dog Hamlet clears a hurdle in an obstacle course during the dog show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"dumpster2\"While the obstacle course confused all the dogs that went on it, this Dumpster behind the Dance Palace confused virtually all the humans who went to use it<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Western Weekend Livestock Show and Fair were held Saturday at the Dance Palace for the second year, having been held for more than half a century at the Red Barn (whose current owner has renamed it and repainted it green). William Nunes’ four-year-old dry Holstein took first place in junior showmanship while Alyssa McClure’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-general-news","category-photography","category-point-reyes-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}