Check out the meat and the fancy new digs at today’s Junior Livestock Auction

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The Junior Livestock Auction (JLA) is well underway at the Fair today!  It is the day that all the hard work 4-H and FFA kids put into raising a farm animal ready for your table finally pays off…literally. Even if you aren’t interested in participating, the fast talkin’ and secret signals and mostly-friendly bidding wars are super fun to watch.

If you head that direction (behind the Grandstands), be sure to pause to take a look at a new building out there.  It is the new office for the JLA.  Until just a day or two before this year’s Fair started, the JLA’s office was a small, unsecured, relatively sparse space right next to the auction ring.

Thanks to some hefty donations of time, money, and talent, the JLA has a new place to call home. And it is gorgeous!

The building itself was generously donated by 3 Kings of Battle Ground,  The interior was then beautifully retrofitted and finished by a number of remodeling companies throughout Clark County via the local Building Industry Association.  So yes, lots of people with big hearts and expertise were involved.

I got a chance to peek inside the new office and I think I might want to move in.  There’s nice cabinetry, air conditioning, loft storage, a really cool-looking rusty corrugated metal roof, old barn roof beams, and old fashioned pendant lights that would make any Portland hipster drool.  Oh, and apparently there are about a half-dozen data ports and lots of room to expand technologically.  So it might look delightfully vintage but it is far from it.

Great job, generous remodeler people!!