2019 Paint the Paper Pink

2019 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2019 Page 17 All three were present Thursday night and did a wonderful job of assisting auctioneer Mike Maske with the live auction. Thanks so much to Miss Logan County Fair Queen Skye Kretzinger, Junior Miss Logan County Anna Kindred and Little Miss Logan County Jolie Grisham for coming and helping out. Before the auction can happen there is a ton of work to do in the back shop area. This year, Erv and Cindy Guyett decided that they would close their shop at noon, allowing a few extra hours for cleaning and setting up. When they closed up shop for the day, the guys in the shop set to work. All the vehicles were moved out, precautions were taken to assure the safety of guests as they came into the shop, and there was a lot of floor cleaning that took place. When they were done, guests came into a spotless area with floors so clean you could probably eat off them. When it was time, the guys in the Collision shop also helped with setting up tables and chairs for the evening and at the end of the night made quick work of cleaning up and clearing out the shop so it would be ready for work the next morning. Thanks so much to the Collision Concepts crew for all they did. In 2018 the auction required about eight tables and 50 chairs that the committee borrowed from the Logan County Fair Association. Hargis, Logan, Smith and Richard Smith loaded up their cars and trucks and hauled all that to Collision and set it up for the auction night. This year, the committee determined that they would need about 20 tables and that was going to take more than a couple trips in the committee vehicles. Illinois American Water stepped up and volunteered to go to the fairground, get the tables and chairs on one of their larger vehicles. They delivered the tables and chairs Continued n