(10/10) Blue and gold champion ribbons were earned by many in the Walkersville Feeder School District at the 79th Glade Valley Community Show, which took place on September 24–26 at Walker’s Overlook. There were 1,439 entries in all, ranging from baked goods, knitted items, photography, crafts, agricultural farm products, and garden products, all displayed by 203 exhibitors.
The first night was full of excitement, as the show kicked off with the selection of Bella Fisher as this year’s Walkersville FFA (Future Farmers of America) ambassador. Following immediately afterwards came the annual cake and baked goods auction under the watchful eye of Jimmy Summers. The junior grand champion cake was sold in memory of Mr. Meryl McLeaf, per the request of the McLeaf family. The proceeds from the sale were split three ways, supporting the Walkersville FFA Chapter National Convention Trip, the Clayton Lenhart Memorial Scholarship, and the Maryland State Grange Scholarship.
The junior grand champion cake was a pumpkin spice cake baked by Ella Eaves that was purchased for $1000 by Auburn Farms. The open grand champion cake, a chocolate cake baked by Jichaela Cutshall, was sold to Mountain Gate Family Restaurant for $608. This year’s cake auction brought in $18,000, of which $6,000 was given back to various funds and organizations within the Walkersville community.
Kids’ Day was on Thursday, with 125 5th grade students from Walkersville Elementary School learning about Agriculture and touring the show. FFA members and Leo Club members taught various lessons to the 5th graders, including how to make butter, how to make a garden in a glove, "egg-ology" and showing how much of the earth’s soil is agriculture. Students with entries in the show had the opportunity to show their friends and teachers how they did.
The return of the annual mini carnival was held Thursday evening for families to come enjoy. There were various carnival games, face painting and a petting zoo with cows, alpacas, goats and chickens. The show had a huge crowd on kids/family night.
The show ended with the 3rd annual "Shake it up" milkshake contest. We had Ella Fell, the Maryland State Dairy princess, there to emcee the contest. Our judges were local dairy farmers from Glade Haven Farms and Teabow Farms.
Organizations within the Walkersville Community had to sign up in advance to make their signature milkshake. They had to bring all their materials and ingredients. Whole milk was donated by Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers and vanilla ice cream was donated by Trout’s Market of Woodsboro. The winning youth team was the Kaleidoscope 4H Club with their "Lemon Pie" shake and the adult team was the Walkersville Library with their "Strawberry Shortcake" shake.
The Glade Valley Community Show Committee would like to thank all the exhibitors, sponsors, patrons, cake buyers and Walkers Overlook for helping to make the show such an overwhelming success!
We look forward to seeing everyone next year!
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