Wilson County Fair won a number of awards at the Tennessee Association of Fairs Convention held recently in Nashville. There were 526 exhibits from 40 county fairs on display. The fair received Merit Awards in the following categories: First Place in Showbill (Promotional Advertisement), Power Point Presentation, Other Fair Promotional Merchandise, Fair Display (Tabletop), Pieced Quilt (Machine pieced and machine quilted), Pieced Quilt (Hand pieced and hand quilted), Poster (John Deere) and Premium Tabloid; Second Place for Recycled Product; and Third Place for Fair Hat (Embroidered Theme), Creative Fair Idea (Agricultural), Decorative Gourd and Scrapbook. Shown here with the awards are, from left, front row, Tommy Bradley, Joy Barber, Phyllis Webb and Randall Clemons. On the back row are Melanie Quinn, Tom Quinn, Hale Moss, Felicia Hale, Wanda Bates and Helen McPeak.

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