Braford Youth Camp Wandoan
Once again it is a pleasure to give a youth report for the year.
January started off with the preparations for our annual youth camp. Unfortunately due to the weather conditions this was postponed. A lot of dates were tossed around to find a time that suited most people and it was decided to hold it in the September school holidays.
I must congratulate both Maddie Hale from Wild Ash Brafords and Macca Kenny from Abernethy Brafords for winning the youth participation awards from the previous year. Both of these young people were given the chance to attend the camp at no cost to them.
Beef Australia was held at the beginning of May and it was a pleasure to see so many of our young people being involved in the showing of the Braford cattle. I am sure if any one travelled around to the many local agricultural shows they would have found many of these kids busy and involved with their own families as well as helping out any one else who was around.
By the time the camp did come around we had already had the Riverina National Bull Sale where some of the little people washed brushed and polished their cattle for sale.
The camp was well supported with a total of thirty six children attending the camp. These were split into age groups with 13 being in the 13 to 17 year olds , 13 in the 7 to 12 age group and 10 six and under. I feel that this is a good indication of the number of young Braford Children coming on and we need to continue to support these children and encourage them .
I want to sincerely thank the sponsors of the weekend. These were the Meek Family, Larry and Beth Acton, the Galloway Family, Amor Family, Penny Vohland, Hoffmann Family, Australian Braford Society, Elders Wandoan and Miles, Riverina Stock feeds Tim McNamara, Malcolm and Sandy Kenny and Western Downs Regional Council, and Russell and Donna Kenny.
The cattle donors were the Wilson Family, Hansen Family , Hoffmann Family , McNamara Family, Rhonda Ryan, Galloway Family, and Noel James and Family.
Once again it is time for the next round of nominations to come in for our youth achievers so I do hope there are plenty of people out there who think some of our kids are worthy of these nominations. Over all it has been a good year for our youth
