{"id":252222,"date":"2020-02-05T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T08:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=252222"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T01:04:56","slug":"school-shines-at-angus-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/02\/05\/school-shines-at-angus-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"School Shines At Angus Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abby Nowland (Year 11), Bonnie Brunner (Year 10) and Byron Brunner (Year 12) were congratulated at the KSHS Assembly on Tuesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

February 5, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy State High School’s ag team had a strong presence at the annual Angus Youth Roundup over the school holidays, bringing several ribbons back home.<\/p>\n

Four students – Abby Nowland, Bonnie Brunner, Byron Brunner and Amity Campbell – accompanied by a teacher and the school’s show heifers attended the camp which was held in Toowoomba from January 16-19.<\/p>\n

Abby returned with the Matthew George Citizenship Award while Byron was Intermediate champion in the\u00a0Mort & Co Meat Judging competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Citizenship Award takes the form of a $500 bursary towards educational expenses and is presented in memory of a young Victorian cattleman killed in a car crash in 2007.<\/p>\n

The Angus Youth Roundup is for young people aged 8-25; novices as well as experienced competitors.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Toowoomba camp – held in Queensland for the first time in six years – attracted more than 130 participants and 150 cattle from all the States and Territories.<\/p>\n

The program included educational sessions and demonstrations, the Barnyard Olympics, meat judging and commercial junior judging, cattle classes and parader classes.<\/p>\n

Other South Burnett prize winners included\u00a0Chloe Plowman, from Kingaroy, who took out the\u00a0EJ Angus Encouragement Award, Champion Intermediate Parader and Reserve Champion Intermediate meat judging.<\/p>\n

Bowenfels Angus was named Best Maintained Stall and was Champion in the Cattle Shop Fitting competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Darcy Graham, from Kingaroy, was Champion Peewee Herdsperson and Mikaela Ross,\u00a0 Booubyjan, was Reserve Champion Senior Parader.<\/p>\n

The 2021 roundup will be held in Wodonga, Victoria.<\/p>\n