Darke County Fair King Colin Batten is shown making omelets for guest as part of the 2024 Darke County Junior Fair Buyer Appreciation Breakfast.
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GREENVILLE On Saturday, Sept. 7 over 150 buyers and guests attended the second annual Darke County Jr. Fair Buyer Appreciation Breakfast at the Youth Building sponsored by Darke County Jr. Fairboard and Darke Jr. Fair Sale Committee.
The buyers and guests were served made to order omelets that contained eggs, ham, cheese, onion and peppers along with sausage, yogurt, fruit, donuts, coffee cake, coffee, chocolate milk, orange juice and water. A special thank you to Weaver Eggs of Versailles for donating the eggs, Dannon of Minister for donating the yogurt, Reiter Dairy/ McVay Dairy for donating the chocolate milk and orange juice, Graves Fearon Insurance Agency for donating the delicious sausage that was served as part of the meal. Carmen Hartzell of Hartzell Flower Farm for growing and making beautiful flower arrangements that were used to decorate the tables A special thanks to Versailles MD Class and Mrs White for helping cutting up the omelet supplies and making the delicious coffee cake. In addition thank you to Darke County King Colin Batten and Queen Sophia Aultman and their court for assisting with the event.
A special thank you to the 30 plus Darke County Junior Fairboard members, Darke County 4-H and FFA members that helped cook the omelets, serve the meal and communicate with buyers.
The Darke County Sale Committee ,Junior Fairboard and Senior Board we would like to thank all the businesses, individuals and organizations that helped make the 2024 Darke County Junior Fair Sales so successful. A total of $519,371 was spent at the Celebration of Achievements and online auctions as part of the 2024 Darke County Fair. A special thank you is extended to our platinum buyers for purchasing over $10,000 dollars at the sales. Those buyers include: Dave Knapp Ford and Tire Warehouse, Superior Implement and Supply “Sisco”, Graves-Fearon Agency, Keystone Cooperative Ins and Bruns Animal Clinic. Thank you is also extended to the gold sponsors who purchased between $5,000 dollars to $10,000 dollars at the 2024 Darke County Fair. Those buyers include Spirit EMS, GNB Banking Centers, Family Health Services of Darke County, Cy Schwiterman Inc, Midwest Crop Care, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Cooper Farms, M.H. Eby Inc, Arcanum VFW Post 4161 and Sunrise Cooperative Inc.. The Darke County Junior Fair Sale Committee also thanks the Darke County Senior Fairboard, auctioneers Bill Roll and Brett Yingst who assisted with the Celebration of Achievement and Vicki Wilcox for all their assistance in making the sales successful.
