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🐰🎉 Champaign County Fair Spotlight 🎉🐷

WL-S 4th grader Adelyn Whitt had a fantastic first year in Junior Fair and absolutely shined in multiple arenas! 🌟

🐷 Livestock
🥉 3rd in class with her breeding gilt

🐇 Rabbits
🥉 3rd in variety with her Black Dutch rabbit
🏅 Best of Variety, Best of Breed, and 🥈 Reserve Champion Fancy Rabbit with her Steel Dutch rabbit
📊 6th in Level 1 Rabbit Poster
🧠 8th in Level 1 Rabbit Skillathon
🐇 5th in Level 1 Rabbit Showmanship

🌿 Girl Scout Projects
♻️ 3rd in Recyclable Crafts
👗 2nd in Clothing
🍃 1st with her Nature project
🎀 1st with her Girl Scout Traditions project — which also earned Best in Brownie Level Show!

Way to go, Adelyn! Your hard work and dedication truly paid off — we’re so proud of your amazing first year! 💚👏 #WLSProud #ChampaignCountyFair #JuniorFairSuccess

🐐 Champaign County Fair Spotlight – Ashlee VonDeylen 🐐 Fair week is almost complete, and Ashlee has had an outstanding run in the goat shows! This year’s focus was on showcasing livestock bred, birthed, and raised right at her home — and her hard work paid off with some impressive results: 🏆 Grand Champion Mother/Daughter 🏆 Reserve Champion Senior Doe 🏆 Reserve Champion Senior Breeding Showman 🏆 5th Overall Breeding Showman 🥈 One 2nd Place Class Ribbon 🥉 Four 3rd Place Class Ribbons 🎖 Three 4th Place Class Ribbons 🎖 Two 5th Place Class Ribbons Ashlee would like to thank the Daggers, McClinticks, Detwillers, and all the friends and family who helped get the goats ready and in the ring throughout the week. Great job, Ashlee! 🧡🖤

👗🐄✨ Champaign County Fair Spotlight ✨🐄👗 What a fantastic week for Kenzie Underwood, 8th grader! 🏆 🧵 1st Place – Sew for Others Division & selected as a State Fair Representative with a beautiful dress she made for her sister, Lexie Underwood, 3rd grader 🧡🖤 🏅 Championship Market Heifer Amazing talent both in the sewing room and the show ring, Kenzie! We’re so proud of you! 👏 #TigerPride #CCF2025 #HardWorkPaysOff

🐹✨ Champaign County Fair Spotlight ✨🐹 Congratulations to Sunny McConnell for an outstanding week in the Cavy competitions! 🏆🍀 🍀 2nd Place – Cavy Skillathon 🍀 2nd Place – Cavy Poster Contest 🍀 1st Place – Cavy Showmanship 🍀 4th Place – Cavy Presentation 🐹 1st – Broken Teddy Intermediate Division 🐹 1st & 2nd – Broken American Senior Sow What an incredible achievement across so many events—your dedication and skill truly shine, Sunny! 👏💚 #TigerPride #CCF2025 #HardWorkPaysOff

🐖✨ Champaign County Fair Spotlight ✨🐖 A big congratulations to Solly Warye for an incredible showing in the open class swine competition! 🏆 🏅 3rd Overall Market Gilt 🏅 5th Overall Market Barrow Way to go, Solly! Your hard work and dedication in the show ring paid off, and we’re proud to cheer you on! 👏💪🐷 #TigerPride #CCF2025 #HardWorkPaysOff

🐰🎉 Champaign County Fair Spotlight! 🎉🐰 Give it up for 7th grader Morgan Maurice, who had an incredible showing at the Champaign County Fair! Morgan brought home a full lineup of champion titles in the rabbit barn! 🏆 🏅 Grand Champion Meat Pen 🏅 Grand Champion Single Fryer 🏅 Grand Champion Born & Raised And it doesn’t stop there… Morgan also earned: 🐇 Best of Breed Flemish Giant 🐇 Best of Breed Czech Frosty 🐇 Best of Breed Mini Lop 🐇 Best of Breed Argente Brun Way to go, Morgan! Your hard work, dedication, and passion for your animals truly shine! 🌟👏 #CCFSpotlight #ChampaignCountyFair #RabbitShowChampion #TigerPride

“New this school year is a two step process when applying for Free & Reduced Services."

Step 1:
Log in to your students FinalForms account and navigate to the Free & Reduced section. If you answer “Yes” that you will be applying for Free & Reduced Services, you will then need to click on the PaySchools link to access the application and proceed to step 2. If you answer “No” there is no additional steps required.

Step 2:
Once you have clicked on the PaySchools link, you will need to create an account if you have not previously done so. Then you MUST complete the Free & Reduced Application in PaySchools. We will also have a paper application available in our Front Office for those who prefer to complete it that way.

For those who have already completed the Free & Reduced application through FinalForms and answered “YES” to applying for those Services, you will need to go back into FinalForms to complete the application through PaySchools. This MUST be done to be eligible for Free & Reduced Services.

Please note that to be eligible for Free & Reduced Services, the application MUST be completed through PaySchools or by completing the paper application that is available in our Front Office.”

📚☀️ Don't forget!! High School Summer Reading 📖✏️

📘 Students will be required to read an assigned book over the summer for their CP/CCP English Class. These books will be used during the first few weeks of class for tests, projects, and papers—so be sure to read them carefully and come prepared!

📌 CP English Sophomores: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
📌 CCP English Juniors: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
📌 CCP English Seniors: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
📌 CP English Freshmen (Choose one): Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Revenant by Michael Punke

Questions? Contact your WLS English teacher listed on the flyer.

#WLSSummerReading #WLSHighSchool #CollegePrep

🌟 Champaign County Fair Spotlight! 🌟 Shoutout to WLS sophomore Savannah McClintick and recent graduate Shyanne for representing West Liberty-Salem with excellence in the FFA goat showmanship divisions! 🐐 Shyanne impressed in the market goat FFA showmanship, taking home: 🏆 Grand Champion – FFA Senior Division 🏆 5th Overall – Market Showmanship 🐐 Savannah shined in the breeding goat FFA showmanship, earning: 🏆 Reserve Champion – Breeding Doe FFA Showmanship 🏆 3rd Overall – Breeding Showmanship Way to go, ladies! Your hard work and dedication paid off in a big way at the Champaign County Fair! 🎉🧡🖤 #TigerPride #CCFSpotlight #WLSTigers #FFAstrong

👏🐑 CCF Spotlight! 🐑👏 Congratulations to Reagan Winters, who took home the FFA Division Showmanship Champion title with her lamb today at the Champaign County Fair! 🌟 Way to represent your chapter and show off all your hard work and dedication, Reagan! We’re proud of you! 💪💚 #CCFSpotlight #FFAChampion #ChampaignCountyFair #TigerPride

🎉 More big news from the Champaign County Fair! 🎉 On Sunday night, Cooper Titus was named Champaign County 4-H Boy of the Year — an honor awarded to just one outstanding 4-H boy and girl each year since 1949! 👏 Cooper received: 🏆 A Clock Trophy sponsored by The Merlin D. Woodruff Family 🤠 A custom buckle from 106.9 The Bull 🎓 A $500 scholarship from the Champaign County 4-H Youth Board Congratulations, Cooper, on this well-deserved recognition! Your hard work and dedication to 4-H truly shines!🌟🐾 #CCFSpotlight #4HStrong #ChampaignCountyFair

🌟 CCF Spotlight: Carly Crawford 🌟

Help us congratulate Carly Crawford, who is the FFA Division Champion AND Overall Showman Champion, at the Champaign County Fair! 🏆🐄🐖💪

Carly will compete in the King of the Ring on Thursday at 2:30 PM. We are cheering for you, Carly! 👑🔥
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#CCFSpotlight #TigerPride #WLSTigers #FFAChampion #KingOfTheRing #ChampaignCountyFair

🎟️⛳️ WLS Golf Team Gift Card Raffle! ⛳️🎟️

Support our West Liberty-Salem Golf Team by grabbing a ticket for their Gift Card Raffle! Tickets are only $5 each, and one lucky winner will take home over $500 in assorted gift cards—restaurants, coffee shops, sweet treats, movie nights, groceries, and more! 🍕🍿🛍️☕️

100% of the proceeds go directly to help with golf memberships, uniforms, and equipment. ⛳️💪

📅 Drawing will be held September 25 and the winner will be contacted by phone or email.
🎟️ Contact any golfer or coach to get your tickets!

Let’s rally behind our Tigers and help them have an amazing season! 🧡🖤 #TigerPride #WLSGolf #SupportOurStudents #WLSRaffle

🎉 Way to go, Liam Baldwin! ⚾️ 8th grader Liam Baldwin and his travel baseball team, the Gem City Bandits, brought home the championship this weekend and have the rings to prove it! 🏆 In an impressive finish, the Bandits defeated the #1 seed in the title game — and Liam represented West Liberty proudly as the only Tiger on the team! 🧡🖤 Great job, Liam! WL-S is proud of you! 👏 #TigerPride #TravelBallSuccess #WLSStrong

🐐 Another Fair Highlight🐐 Harper Hess, an incoming preschooler, won 4 year old pee wee showman champion with Ashlee VonDeylen's goat! We love to see our older students getting involved with our youth! Congratulations, Harper!

🌾CCF Highlight🌾 Reagan Tilson, incoming kindergartener, got penned in Swine Pee-Wee Showmanship in her very first year! Great work, Reagan! 🐷✨

Bentley Sullivan had an outstanding week at the Ohio State Fair! She won the Intermediate Showmanship class at the Buckeye Blowout on Wednesday, placed 2nd in her class with her yearling ewe in the Junior Show on Thursday, and finished 5th in her class at the Open Show on Friday! 🐑🏅 Now it’s on to the County Fair — best of luck, Bentley! 🧡🖤 #TigerPride #WLSAgStrong #StateFairSuccess

🐑 The Darling & Henry Tunis show kids spent three days at the State Fair showing their breeding sheep for Mrs D! Elias Henry from BL, Carter Pratt, Bentley Sullivan, and Avery Brown did a fantastic job, learned a lot and proudly represented our community! Keep up the great work!!🎉

🐐👏 Day one of the Champaign County Fair, and Junior Ashlee VonDeylen is off to an incredible star! Ashlee was named Champaign County Senior Goat Ambassador, earned Reserve Division Champion in Breeding Showmanship, and placed 5th Overall Breeding Showman! 🎉 Way to represent, Ashlee! We’re proud of your hard work and dedication—what a way to kick off the week! 🧡🖤 Don't forget to message us with all your fair news to share! We love to see it and share it! #TigerPride #ChampaignCountyFair #WLSAgStrong