Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

4-H fair exhibits see increase

By TOM LAVENTURE

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SAXON, Wis. - A fair without 4-H is not much of a fair.

Around 41 members of 4-H will present more than 250 projects at the Iron County Fair from Friday through Sunday in Saxon, the most in recent memory, said Neil Klemme, the area 4-H director and youth development educator for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension. Members of the Hurley Lucky Clovers, the Iron County Green Team, the Saxon Emerald Knights and the Penokee Range 4-H Livestock Club will be showing their stuff all weekend.

"We just finished up judging the non-...