As a reminder, all 4-H clothing members are required to attend the Style Revue on Monday, July 14th at 7:00 p.m. at Liberty Union High School to be eligible for county awards. For more detailed information and a map, please click here: Style Revue Info Sheet & Map
The Fashion and Nutrition Board will be hosting Style Revue Modeling Practice ahead of the event at 6:00 p.m. Monday, July 14th at Liberty Union High School.
All are welcome to support the hard work of these 4-H members!
The Ohio State Fair is just two weeks away! July 23-August 3, 2025
HOURS OF OPERATION
ADMISSION
*Online advance-sale tickets are available May 1 through July 22 only. Beginning July 23, online admission pricing will reflect on-site admission pricing. Purchase Advance-Sale Tickets
RIDES
Support Fairfield County 4-H Junior Leaders Club with Cristy’s Pizza! 🍕
Join us for our fundraiser at Cristy’s Pizza and help make a difference in our community! When you order from Cristy’s in Lancaster on Tiki Lane on July 14th & 15th, 15% of your total food purchases will be donated to our organization.
How to Support:
👉 Ordering Online? Select our organization under the “Specials & Fundraisers” tab in the online ordering menu.
👉 Ordering In-Store? Simply tell a team member you want to support our organization.
We thank you for your support in advance! Spread the word and tag a friend. PDF version of flyer: 07.14 – 07.15.25 Cristy’s Pizza
If you may know of 4-H members in need of community service hours, we have a few areas during the Honeyfest in need of volunteers! Recommended ages for these positions are ~15 and older teens. If younger and unable to work independently, the volunteer must be accompanied by a parent at all times to assist.
Sign-ups are directly via our Sign-Up Genius webpage. Once signed up, the volunteer will receive a confirmation e-mail with event details.
A few areas of potential interest:
Sign-Up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DACA72DA7FDCF8-54446649-lithopolis#/
Please note that I will be away from 7/11 through 7/23. E-mail is welcome, however I won’t be able to respond until after my return.
Thank you for sharing with the clubs!
June Queen
Lithopolis Honeyfest Volunteer Coordinator
The following awards are currently not sponsored for 2025 as of June 26, 2025. Please contact Carrie Stoneburner, Junior Fair Awards Coordinator at 740-503-7141 or by email at fairfieldcountyjrfairawards@gmail.com. Thank you in advance!
| Award Title | Award Type | Unit Price | Award Total |
| 15 Year Advisor – Pearl Award | 3 Pins | $11.50 | $34.50 |
| 20 Year Advisor – Diamond Award | 1 Pin | $30.00 | $30.00 |
| 25 Year Advisor – Emerald Award | 2 Pins | $12.50 | $25.00 |
| 30 Year Advisor – Ruby Award | 1 Pin | $15.00 | $15.00 |
| 35 Year Advisor – Sapphire Award | 2 Pins | $15.00 | $30.00 |
| 40 Year Advisor – Diamond Award | 2 Pins | $60.00 | $120.00 |
| 45 Year Advisor – Emerald Award | 1 Pin | $30.00 | $30.00 |
| 55 Year Advisor – Pearl Award | 1 Pin | $30.00 | $30.00 |
50 Ohio 4-H’ers traveled to Washington, D.C. at the beginning of June to participate in Citizenship Washington Focus, a program that gives youth the opportunity to explore, develop, and refine their civic engagement skills. They spent six days exploring the nation’s capital, participating in hands-on educational workshops, learning about our country’s history, and meeting with government leaders. Attending from Fairfield County were Henry Hoisington, Evelyn Hill, Anna Wolfe, and Alaina Bell.
Thanks to these experiences, they developed leadership, citizenship, and communication skills that will help them become leaders in their community and agents of change for the future.
Do you have teens in your program looking for their next level of involvement? Encourage them to consider applying for the Ohio 4-H Teen Leadership Council for the 2025-2026 program year!
Ohio 4-H Teen Leadership Council (TLC) applications for the 2025-26 year are now available and can be found on our website at go.osu.edu/TLC! Please let any interested individual know so they may apply. Please note, because it is only a one year term, current TLC members who wish to continue their service must re-apply. Every member will select a committee to join that is based on a program in Ohio 4-H (STEM, Healthy Living, College and Career Readiness, 4-H Promotion and Advocacy, and Animal Science) – they will be working closer with design teams to help review and provide feedback to programming as well as creating new programs and resources and advocating for that program and project area – see attached graphic for more details.
The 4-H Advisory Committee Christmas in July Craft and Vendor Show is asking for your help with the silent auction this year. We are asking clubs to donate a basket of items (theme of your choice) for the auction. Clubs will receive 25% from the sale of their basket, Also the highest selling basket will receive an additional award. The show is on July 19 at the fairgrounds from 9-3. Baskets can be drop off at the Extension office by noon Friday July 18 or at the Ed Sands building between 10 – 6. We also like to challenge you to donate a toy to the Lancaster Fire Department Toy Drive. For more information Contact Cindy Gilfillen 740-590-8845 or Mark Sharp 740-503-5918
The highest selling basket donated by a 4-H Club will receive 35% of that sale back to their club!
The objective of the Premier Exhibitor Contest is to encourage youth exhibitors to explore multiple aspects of the livestock specie project they are enrolled in, and to reward those youth that participate at the highest level. While some exhibitors may choose to only participate in a single aspect of an animal project, the reality is that all the various opportunities available for any given project are interrelated and participation can enhance the knowledge, skills, and enjoyment gained from the project.
It’s all interrelated and encouraging youth to expand their knowledge of their project by participating in a variety of opportunities while also in a competitive environment will enhance the learning experience.
Requirements
Eligible Species
Scoring
The Premier Exhibitor for each species will be the exhibitor with the highest point total from the activities listed for each specie (dropping the scores as mentioned below).
The goal is to encourage exhibitors to explore various opportunities available to them within their species and allow for lowest scores to be dropped when sufficient experiences can be offered (for example, Beef Exhibitors have far more project opportunities available to them than Pygmy Goats). The objective would be to encourage exhibitors to earn points for exhibiting animals in at least two ways at the Fairfield County Fair in addition to participating in Skillathon, showmanship, rate of gain (if applicable), and judging contests (if applicable). If exhibiting more than one animal in an activity, the highest placing animal will be used for the Premier Exhibitor scoring.
The *Fairfield County Skillathon will be a mandatory activity for participation in the respective species’ Premier Exhibitor Contest. A Skillathon is an activity to test knowledge of specific subject matter in a hands-on experiential learning model. Skillathons will take place on the assigned day and times in September, and this will be the only opportunity for participants to complete the Skillathon for their respective species and be eligible to participate in the respective Premier Exhibitor Contest. Exhibitors will earn corresponding Premier Exhibitor points based off of their raw score (out of 100 points). Skillathons will be comprised of four stations. A completed project book is required at Skillathon.
The Fairfield County Livestock Judging Contest will take place on Sunday of the Fairfield County Fair for swine, beef, sheep, and goats. Exhibitors will earn corresponding Livestock Judging Contest points based off of their raw score. Total points possible will be determined on the day of the contest. The Fairfield County Dairy Judging Contest will take place on Monday of the Fairfield County Fair for dairy cattle.
Rate of Gain will be available to all market beef, dairy steer, and dairy feeder exhibitors.
Breeding/Market/Showmanship/Rate of Gain class/heat points will be assigned according to class rankings (placing 1st through 5th, followed by participation points).
Livestock Sale: If the Premier Exhibitor has a market animal in that respective species, they will sell third in the market sale for that species following the Overall Grand and Reserve Grand Champion Market Animals. If an exhibitor chooses to take home and earns Premier Exhibitor, they will lose their sale slot. (In that case second place Premier Exhibitor will not move into that sale slot).
Ties: Exhibitors will complete a tiebreaker station at Skillathon for their respective species. Scoring from the tiebreaker station will only be used to help break ties for the overall rankings of each specie’s Premier Exhibitor.
Awards will be given for 1st place winners of each age group (Age 8/9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18), from which, overall 1st through 3rd place winners will be chosen for the Premier Exhibitor Program for each specie.
As printed in the 2025 Fairfield County Junior Fair Book.
If youth are planning to drop a project for summer judging and/or fair, it is helpful to let us know so that we can delete this off of 4-HOnline enrollment records and our data tracking for various fair requirements. If dropping a project, please notify Haley Black by email at black.768@osu.edu.
Thanks!