Whiteside County Livestock Feeders enjoy their new pavilion, and so do visitors. It offers plenty of comfortable seating, views, shade–and rain cover–and a spacious serving center. Additionally, the building is accessible to everyone. This makes a convenient gathering/resting place for fair goers.
The Morrison Athletic Boosters grill meat on the north side; the Whiteside County Farm Bureau has more interior space to sell dairy treats. A small set of risers affords outside seating facing the grandstand. Landscaping completes the setting. The same great food is available.
This “Most Unusual Cake” (with some non-edible decorations) included whimsy in the recipe. It was entered in the Open Culinary Department on Tuesday, August 18, 2015. Heavy equipment earth movers are the perfect scale and are actively excavating. Those boulders are plastic, permanent ice cubes with a gray paint finish. How would you serve it? Slices will not do. Dig in!
If you crave a personalized, spray-painted t-shirt, ball cap, or fairy princess hair adornment, this vendor has you covered.
This richly detailed model log cabin was entered in the Hobby Show. Look at the ladder; wood-grained coffee table; pie slices; mounted fish and deer; pebbled fireplace. It was so enticing, but not available for play this week.
At the east side of the fairgrounds on Tuesday, law enforcement personnel sheltered from preliminary sprinkles (which later became a long downpour) under the tent of the Whiteside Count Sheriff’s Office. Safety information, bumper stickers, and shiny gold badges, ie. stickers, were distributed by Sheriff Kelly Wilhelmi.
Morrison Chief of Police Brian Melton chatted with the Sheriff, Chief Deputy Andy Henson, and Deputies John Booker and Jim Miller. A tornado warning was sent to phones, using the new Everbridge warning system. Behind Chief Melton, the Fulton Fired Department displayed the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) vehicle. It responds to assist area Fire Departments with fires, “robust” emergencies, and search-and-rescue. Below left-to-right are Sheriff Kelly Wilhelmi, Deputy Booker, and Chief Deputy Henson. Deputy Miller will be featured in a separate article to showcase the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department Mounted Patrol.
