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Chelsea Community Fair: livestock auction one week away

I hope you decide this will be the year you attend the 62nd annual Chelsea Community Fair livestock auction on Thursday, Aug. 22 beginning at 7 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Building.

Selling their animals to the highest bidder is the culmination of all the hard work the more than 80 youth have put into the care for their animals before fair. It’s a way for them to start a college fund, add to a college fund, pay for this year’s or next year’s animals or put money away for the future. Please consider supporting whatever their goals might be with the money they receive from this sale.

The members of the Chelsea-Dexter-Grass Lake Community Fair Livestock Club members count on your generosity each year.

There is a pre-auction buyer’s light buffet beginning at 6 p.m. where you will see folks perhaps you haven’t had a chance to reconnect with until this event.

Each year, the order of animal sales changes. This year, it will be chickens, lambs, rabbits, beef, turkeys, feeder calves, goats and hogs.

In the case of the meat rabbits, chickens, turkeys and goats, you’ll be bidding on just the grand champions and reserve grand champions. You’ll have an opportunity to bid on the grand champion individual and reserve grand champion individual as well as the grand champion pair and reserve grand champion pair of lambs and pigs. Then the bidding on the remainder of the animals begins.

If you’ve not gone before, when you arrive, you sign up with the nice folks from Chelsea State Bank, who handle the money from the sales, and grab something to eat before the auction begins. Once you’ve purchased an animal, you go back to the table to pay for it. Processing is a separate charge and what you’ll pay depends on how you want the animal processed. Shipping to the processing plants or stockyards is free. 

So, clean out your freezer, talk to your friends and share the cost of an animal that will provide you with meat for the cooler months ahead. More than one person can purchase an animal. And if you would like to bid but are unable to attend, you can also make arrangements ahead of time.

If you have questions, the folks from Chelsea State Bank, the Livestock Committee — Chad Trinkle, Dan Grau, Eric McCalla, Danny Trinkle and Mike VanRiper — or other bidders at the auction will be glad to help.

 

 

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