With the Greene County Fair done for the year, one organization is helping to supplement funds for the area 4-H’ers.

Friends of the Fair raised money in their first year with the goal of providing equal funds to Greene County 4-H’ers that participated in the Junior Fair Premium Auction on the last final day of the Greene County Fair. Member Ashley Johnston says they raised $6,700 through 22 donations with three fair-related categories, including purple ribbon at $500, blue at $250 and $100 for the red ribbon level.

“We’re very excited with the participation we had. Our goal again was the $5,000, we exceeded that by $1,700. So a big thank you to our community members that participated this year.”

Johnston notes there were 101 4-H’ers at this year’s premium auction and so each will receive an additional $67 on top of the total they had from the auction. Johnston encourages any person, organization or business that would like to be involved for next year to contact her or Jackie Cunningham at Home State Bank to be added to the list of donors.