Logan County Fair 2022

2022 LOGAN COUNTY FAIR LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JULY / AUGUST 2022 Page 15 event. The auction isn’t the biggest show for the fair, which is admittedly a nice bonus. It’s not as crowded as a concert or a race or a tractor pull. But it has a lot of heart, and I think that’s pretty special. From Nila Smith Nila Smith, a farm girl at heart. You can take the girl off the farm, but you can’t take the farm out of her: All the staff at Lincoln Daily News knows that when the Logan County Fair comes around, they will find Nila in the livestock show barn. I have a passion for the beef and swine shows because those are the animals I grew up with and know from nose to tail. I also enjoy the small animal shows and the demo derby, which is always a MUST-SEE for me. But I struggle to single out a particularly good memory because I have so many, almost all of them revolving around the kids in the show barn with their animals. I remember with fondness watching those young men and women grow up. When I first met him, Troy Rawlings was just a youngster with a mischievous grin on his face. Today he is a grown man, still involved with the beef shows at the Logan County Fair. I was probably as proud as her parents when Molly Schempp was chosen as a Logan County Fair Queen. I had watched her, and her brother Cavit grow up at the fair. The two always made a point of coming to visit with me in the show barn, and I was touched when their mom Cindy told me that there was a photo of me in every fair scrapbook the kids made. I remember with fondness the late Wayne Coffey, the superintendent of the 4-H rabbit shows. He showed such care for the young people and offered them his wisdom and guidance. Continued p