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Show 4-H members clean up mess When 4-H members entered the livestock barn Monday, to get ready for their annual Uintah Basin Junior Livestock Show and Sale, which began Tuesday ana ends on Friday, they were greeted by manure and sawdust that was left after the Vernal Race Meet. 4-H youngsters and adults worked Monday Mon-day and Tuesday to get the barn ready. Jerry Pope, a member of the Vernal Racing Association, Fair Board representative and member of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin Livestock Show and Sale committee, remarked, "The Vernal Race Meet Association was allowed to use our livestock barn if they cleaned it up. Horses were kept in the livestock barn right up to Saturday." Leo Snow, a committee member of the Uintah Basin Junior Livestock Show and Sale, and one of the barn managers stated, "About three stalls were clean, but the rest were dirty. Some stalls were two feet deep in manure. We wanted to set things up Monday, but we had to clean up the mess on Monday and Tuesday. We cleaned the building after last year's show and then cleaned it Monday and Tuesday of this week. This is the first I - r-:..- :, v ;- .s--' 1 1 'iff 1 t -.. - ' " . s - - !f J I - "'-r y - n.' J. 'C ?V A MANURE AND SAWDUST MESS is cleaned up by Ronnie Shanks, Kam Pope, Glen Albers, Shelly Shanks, left to right, and other members time the barn has been cleaned since June 1979. Some horse trailers weren't removed until Tuesday. " Snow added, "The young kids have to clean the barn spotless after the show before they can get their money out of their animals. If -we expect the young kids to clean up and take care of our barn, then the adults should set the example." A meeting will be held soon to solve the problem. of the 4-H Clubs. 4-H memDers spent Monday and Tuesday cleaning up the livestock barns. |