Hello Union County 4-H Members, Friends, and Family, Welcome back to school and a new year with Union County 4-H! Decorating a hay bale at the TN Valley Fair has become a long-standing tradition with Union County 4-H Members. This year, we have one opportunity to decorate ONE hay bale for our county. Therefore, we will have a contest among different Union County 4-H Groups to win the County Idea Contest. In many years past, we have had Honor Club, Hog Club, Horse Club, Smoky Mtn Club all want to decorate a hay bale. We encourage each group to apply, but only one will get to actually decorate. We will have a panel of judges decide which group will win!

To be clear, 4-H groups within Union County 4-H must apply to be selected to decorate a hay bale at the TN Valley Fair. The hay bale must be decorated on Sept 9th, 2017 at the Fairgrounds. Only one group will win the opportunity!

Applications (attached) are due by August 25th, 2017 to sdewitt@utk.edu or in person at the 4-H office.