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living at the fair<br />
Logan Gruhn enjoys playing with<br />
children in the neighboring campers<br />
in between spending time at the Clinton<br />
County Fair. Next year, she’ll be a Cloverkid,<br />
just like her older brother, Liam.<br />
<strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Iowa</strong> <strong>Farmer</strong> photo / Brooke Taylor<br />
campsite at the fair eight years ago<br />
(the last five at the 4-H site), the<br />
family would pack a cooler and<br />
spend the long days at the fair with<br />
daughters Averie, 19, and Irelynd,<br />
17, before going home and getting<br />
up to do it all over again, Amie<br />
said.<br />
“It made for very long days,”<br />
she said.<br />
Irelynd, a senior at Marquette<br />
High School, received first in<br />
class for her light class crossbred steer<br />
at the fair. Averie, who attends <strong>Iowa</strong><br />
State University, also showed livestock<br />
in past fairs.<br />
The Sieverdings were camping at<br />
one of 19 sites along Platt Street that<br />
are reserved for 4-H families. The fairgrounds<br />
also hosts 34 sites in the Rivers<br />
Addition east of the racetrack and about<br />
eight sites near the new horse barn, said<br />
fair manager Lanny Simpson.<br />
Maddie Klemme, a 4-H member for<br />
nine years, camps with her family at the<br />
Jackson County fairgrounds and has been<br />
doing so since she started showing. Last<br />
“Staying in the camper<br />
allows for many memories<br />
to be made. I would not<br />
have wanted to experience<br />
the fair any other way.”<br />
— MADDIE KLEMME<br />
summer, she was the second runner-up in<br />
the fair queen competition. She was able<br />
to fully enjoy the fair around the clock,<br />
hanging out after chores and having a<br />
place to go in the middle of the day to<br />
take a break from everything else going<br />
on.<br />
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