ODDLY ENOUGH, IT WASN'T THE BALLET BOX THAT WAS STUFFED.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Repeat winner Tracey Scott of Quartz Hill won another Best of Show in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair's scarecrow Scarecrow goes to Wizard of Oz to get brains. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ignorance Scarecrow can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. contest with a scarecrow doing a handstand for the fair theme of ``Ewe Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.'' Other prize winners included a vampire cow and sheep scarecrow that won first place in the individual category for Pat Stevenson. ``I had fun doing this,'' Stevenson said. ``This is fun. People should know about this.'' Scarecrow entries were judged on originality, humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was or fright and suitability to the fair theme. The Judge's Choice award and first place in the youth category went to a Hawaiian-shirted scarecrow made by Westside 4-H Club members. Leslie Farrell of Palmdale's robot Scarecrow of the Future was awarded second, and the Quartz Hill Future Farmers of America received honorable mention. Larry Coates' scarecrow was awarded third place in the family or group category. HomeTown Buffet HomeTown Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States. Its wide selection of food include pizza, hot dogs, hot wings, sliced ham among many others. won first place in the mechanical category, Antique Asylum won first place in the business category and Felder Ranch of Lancaster received a second place for its scarecrow made of alfalfa alfalfa (ălfăl`fə) or lucern (l  sûn`), perennial leguminous plant (Medicago sativa .
Taylor Trude of Lancaster received an honorable mention. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1) A Hawaiian-shirted scarecrow, left, from the Westside 4-H Club won the Judge's Choice award at the Antelope Valley Fair during the scarecrow contest. (2 -- 4) Larry Coates of Quartz Hill got third place in the family or group category for his entry, left, while the figure from HomeTown Buffet, center, won in the mechanical category. Taylor Trude of Lancaster received an honorable mention for this wolf in sheep's clothing, while the black sheep black sheep n. 1. A sheep with black fleece. 2. A member of a family or other group who is considered undesirable or disreputable. next to it whon a first in the business category for Antique Asylum. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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