2025 Fair, 4-H & Festival Contest Winners
2025 Contest Winner - Crystal Cleveland
Photographed are sisters Isabel (6) and Charlotte (8). They are first generation farmers who joined 4H to grow their skills and confidence. The Jane Rose Farmstead began with raising two dozen 4H pullet run chicks. The girls now care for 125 hens, sell around 15 dozen colorful eggs a week, and are working on a top line Salmon Favorelles conservation breeding project.
Isabel and Charlotte love making art and crafts and playing together outdoors. They completed their first 4H season this year showing Silverbells and Zebra (Orpington and Marans hens), and Holland Lop rabbits Butterscotch and Oreo, pictured here. Isabel and Charlotte plan on using their winnings to replace coops and runs destroyed during Hurricane Helene. Photo was taken by their mother Crystal at the Piedmont Interstate Fair 4H competition in South Carolina.
2025 Honorable Mention - Susan Condlin
Zofia Pogozelska, an exchange student from Czestochowa, Poland, is spending her junior year of high school at Southern Lee High School in Sanford, NC. She began creating her self-portrait digital art in the airport and on the plane while coming to America. Not only did Zofia win the Best in Show Youth Artwork at the Lee Regional Fair, her artwork was submitted to the NC Association of Agricultural Fair’s Best In Show competition at the NC State Fair where she also won first place. The premiums earned through these competitions are being saved for her college fund in which she will study art animation at the university.
2025 Honorable Mention - Rachel Andrews Damon
Alex Taylor, 26, of Taylor Logging, Porter, Maine, is the youngest of three generations working in the family business. Alex is a champion logger. He took first place in skidder and grapple equipment operator categories at Fryeburg Fair's Woodsmen's Field Day 2024. Photo by Rachel Andrews Damon.
2025 Honorable Mention - Amy Caldwell
Pictured is stained glass artwork by Natasha Mullins. She was the Best of Show winner in the Amateur Art division at the 2024 Guest River Rally Art & Photo Show. She is also a member of the Center Stage Cloggers which performed at the Guest River Rally. The festival occurs Labor Day weekend in downtown Coeburn, Virginia. The Art & Photo Show is open to all ages with divisions from preschool to professional. Photo by host Amy Caldwell.
2025 Honorable Mention - Abigail Phillips
This photo features Chyanne Jordan, a Junior South Carolina 4-H member. She is proudly showing off her ribbon after competing with her dairy goat, Janie, and riding her horse, Kassie, in pole bending, stakes, and barrel racing. Hard work and dedication pay off. Photo was taken by Abigail Phillips.
2025 Honorable Mention - Michelle Mitchell
Pictured are Gymkhana High Point winners from the San Luis Obispo County 4-H Horse Project. L to R: Hailey, Lacey, Annie, Lexi, Brooklynn D., Elsa, and Brooklynn A. These young riders, who range in age from 9 to 18, train and compete on their 4-H project horses throughout the year. Through 4-H they learn horsemanship, Western & English riding skills, creating a bond with their animals and developing skills and knowledge that will last them a lifetime. Hodges Badge rosettes are fantastic awards and are a part of all our 4-H events.
2025 Honorable Mention - Autumn Portell
Autumn is 13 years old she loves showing lambs with all her heart, she works so hard to train them and she continues to grow and improve each year. The 2025 season will be Autumn's 5th year showing lambs. She pours a lot of hard work into her lambs and their bond shows the work she puts in.
She will use the money towards her 2025 showing season to purchase their grain and other products. Autumn said, "it's such a great environment, I've met some incredible people along the way, we give a lending hand when we can and the support system truly is one of a kind."
Winning this contest means a lot to Autumn, she said "the connection I have with my lambs means so much to me, I really do love showing and seeing how far we come and how much we can improve and grow together. Showing is my sport, my passion and most of all, my happy place."