CONTESTS & FUN
Reggie the Rooster, eight feet tall and 400 lbs, found his way back to the 104th Annual Priddis & Millarville Fair where he was won by a veteran, local farm family in our raffle . . . . .. and now graces their driveway. Reggie was also subject of a Long Journey Home Art & Essay Contest, with results below.
Reggie's Long Journey Home Contest
Winners and Participants
Thanks to the following for having fun with Reggie and the "Long Journey Home" Art & Essay contest at the 104th Annual Priddis & Millarville Fair
Pre-School Story - Gabriel Anderson - "The Story Of Reggie
Reggie is not a real rooster, except for Christmas. He was made by someone who makes things from wood . . . . a carpenter. Teachers asked him to make Reggie along time ago for the people. The people wanted to see Reggie.
Reggie lives in a barn with lots and lots and lots of doors. It is really, really tall. There is even an elevator that has no buttons, it is an automatic elevator. The teachers and the people can use it if they want to see Reggie. He could not leave though because of his paint. The paint comes off in the rain. Reggie will be at the Fair this year because he now has special sticky paint. It will not come off in the rain.
The End
Grade 3 Story
1) Finn Blatz - Reggie The Travelling Rooster
2) Thomas Bakoway - My Adventure To The Millarville Fair
3) Mayla Melnechenko & Marissa Smith - Reggie's Marvelous Journey
4) Reed Gresing & Will Jamieson - Reggie The Rooster In The Jungle
Grade 3 Art
1) Nicolette Kendall
2) Amara Fugala
3) Samuel Simard
4) Finn Blatz
Grade 3 - Other Participants - Signe Goplen & Mackenzie Dopf, Kayla Dopf, Sarah Levine, Becky Levine, Owen Easson, Jessie White & Nicolette Kendall, Darion Fisher, Brenen French, Jose Ignacio Sedano Robles
Grade 5 Art
1) Kai Lowe
Adult Story
1) Barb Castell - The Autobiography of Reggie The Rooster
2) Lorne & Diae Maull - Reggie The Millarville Rooster
3) Donna Kendall - Reggie's Story
4) John Lockhart - Rounding Up 104 Years of Reggie's Life
Adult Art
1) Donna Kendall
2) Barb Castell
Thanks again to all participants who allowed their imaginations help bring Reggie to life.
Old Farmer's Advice
“Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.”
“Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.”
“Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.”
“A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.”
“Words that soak into your ears are whispered…....not yelled.”
“Meanness don't just happen overnight.”
“Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.”
“Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.”
“It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.”
“You cannot unsay a cruel word.”
“Every path has a few puddles.”
“When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.”
“The best sermons are lived, not preached.”
“Most of the stuff people worry about, ain't never gonna happen anyway.”
“Don 't judge folks by their relatives.
“Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.”
“Live a good and honorable life, then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.”
“Don 't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.”
“Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.”
“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.”
“Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
“The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.”
“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.”
“Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.”
“If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.”
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and leave the rest to God.”
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
ABOUT THE MILLARVILLE RACING & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AND THE PRIDDIS & MILLARVILLE FAIR
The Millarville Racing & Agricultural Society was born in early 1905, before the Province of Alberta, when the Race Club bought land to stage the first Races, running next summer for the 107th time in a row. In 1907, the first Priddis & Millarville Fair was staged and in 1951, the Hall Association joined with the Race Club and Fair to incorporate as MRAS.