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July 22, 2008

By DUANE NOLLEN The Oskaloosa Herald Tue Jul 22, 2008, 10:11 AM CDT

OSKALOOSA — Cody Adams and Ashley Kinkade were crowned the 2008 Southern Iowa Fair King and Queen Monday evening.

While Adams ran unopposed, Kinkade was in a field of five candidates for fair queen. Kinkade competed against Jackie Veenstra, Nakeesha Van Wyk, Devan Voss and Jaime Williams.

The panel of three judges took their time to select the winners, and besides Kinkade as queen, Veenstra was named first runner-up and Van Wyk was named second runner-up.

Master of Ceremonies Scott Rogers asked the candidates two questions in a non-formal question-and-answer session on stage.

Rogers asked Adams about his experience with the William Penn Concert Band.

Adams said he has played with the university band for a year. University officials asked high school students to join, and he took them up on the offer. Adams plays trombone.

Rogers asked Veenstra about her church mission trip to Jewel, Kan., to help people cleanup after a tornado devastated their community.

Veenstra said that while she was walking through a wheat field, she had found a woman’s diamond necklace that was very dear to the woman.

“It was a great experience. I’d love to go back and do it again,” Veenstra said.

Rogers also asked Van Wyk about a church mission trip she took to Kentucky and Mississippi.

Van Wyk said in Kentucky she had helped a man whose roof had collapsed on his house and, in Mississippi, she helped clean up in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She said her group spent a week in both places, and besides helping clean up damage, her group discussed religion with the people they helped.

Rogers asked Williams about her TeenServe mission trip.

Williams said her group stayed at a school and then worked on houses for those who were unable to do the work themselves during the day and then worshiped with everyone at night.

Rogers asked Kinkade about her work with the Country Life Center.

The Country Life Center is a local care center and the Teen Council visits the center and helps the residents with crafts and exhibits that are shown at the fair, Kinkade said. The residents said that no kids or animals had visited them, so Kinkade said she brought her dog for the residents to play with.

Rogers asked Voss about her experiences sandbagging during this year’s flood.

Voss said that she and others helped people move away from flood waters during the day and sandbagged at night. Voss said she liked sandbagging as a way to help the community.

Rogers then asked contestants the question: “If you could host a foreign exchange student, where in the U.S. would you take them and why?’

Adams replied: “to a farm in the middle of Iowa and show them how it is done.”

Veenstra said she’d take the student to Wyoming. “The people there are very kind,” she said. Her family has vacationed in the state, she added.

Van Wyk said Seattle. She said her family had vacationed there and she’d take the student to see sights like the Space Needle. Also, they’d visit California and go to a beach, she added.

Williams said the Iowa State Fair. The state fair has “a bunch of opportunities they’ve never experienced before,” she said.

Kinkade also said the Iowa State Fair for the full two weeks. The state fair is “a major thing in Iowa. ... They’d have a very wonderful time there,” she said.

Voss said she’d take the student around Iowa to visit cities such as Des Moines and Iowa City. But, she’d also take the student to visit farms in the state.

During the deliberation for fair king and queen, other royalty were also crowed on stage.

Duane and Vivian Jager, of rural Eddyville, were crowed the 2008 Southern Iowa Fair Senior King and Queen.

Also, Misty Scanlon was named the 2008 Southern Iowa Fair Mom.

Herald Editor Duane Nollen can be reached by email at oskynews@oskyherald.com

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