The Junior Fair celebrated as their events for the week are nearly wrapped up with the Junior Fair awards ceremony and parade Thursday night.

Fair royalty was escorted in to the reviewing stand, awards were announced, and the parade began. First in the parade were animals, and their owners, in costume. Among the fan favorites was Snow White and her string of furry dwarfs.

Then 4-H clubs from around the county paraded through as info and honors about their groups were announced.

The Junior Fair this year has gone smoothly, according to Garrett Schwedt, Junior Fair king and a member of the Junior Fair board.

New this year are premier exhibitor awards that combine the skillathon, type grade and showmanship grade scores, resulting in one premier showman named in each of five categories: beef, horse, fowl, swine and sheep.

The premier showmanship awards are something Junior Fair Board members had seen being done elsewhere.

“We wanted to try something new,” Schwedt said. “It’s just some extra recognition for the kids that try the hardest.”

The winners got gift baskets that included show supplies and gift certificates, he said.

The Junior Fair has goat and dairy shows today and wraps up with market hogs and market beef being auctioned Saturday at the Junior Fair Livestock Sale.