East Washingtonian - Your Hometown News Source

By: Elizabeth Ruchert

My senior project I completed on my own; it consisted of taking down the tack room in the swine barn at the Garfield County Fairgrounds and replacing them with eight more pigpens to allow more entries for our fair and jackpots. This project played an effective role in helping the community; it allowed more kids to enter their pigs, and create more space in the barn. Taking down the tack room allowed the barn to be more organized and easier to walk around in, especially with pigs. The swine barn was also in need of cleaning and this came with taking down to the tack room. Once the new pens were built, I added boards to hang up ribbons and banners above them to match the exiting pens. I did not complete this project on my own, I had major help from the superintendents of the swine barn and I am very grateful for their help. I have learned many things that involve construction and how to make a plane and follow through with it. The project was a lot of physical work, but I am happy that I not only completed it, but enjoyed it as well.