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	International Sunflower Festival 2008 Grand Marshall Joseph Metzger Joe is a fourth generation farmer to live and work on the Metzger farm and he began his 4-H experience in 1952 as a 4-H member of the Kiwanis Steer Club with Dale Glass as the extension agent. He began with a single steer project until he was a high school freshman when he had pens of five steer projects and continued this throughout his high school days. Joe has been a 4-H advisor for 44 years, beginning in 1964 with Jim Starr, and continues as an advisor with the Concord Breeders and Feeders club. His 3 children were 4-H members with Joe as their advisor and they entered goat, sheep, and hog and steer projects in the Ross County Fair. They loved 4-H, as does Joe, and often talk about their experiences as 4-H members. Joe supports 4-H and the Ross County fair, not only as an advisor, but also as a buyer at the livestock project sales. Joe has bee a Farm advisor and teacher for many years. He met his wife on a blind date in 1965 at teh Yound Farmers Sweetheart Dance in Columbus. Joe's wife Pam grew up in Columbus and had never met a farmer or visited a farm before, so she was a little nervous about going on a blind date with a "farmer". Joe's sister, Mary, was a classmate of Pam's (nursing school) and assured her that it would be fine. Pam and Joe not only had a good time at the dance, but also talked about farming. Joe described a "hog parlor" which Pam envisioned as a fancy place to keep hogs but later learned on her first visit to the farm this vision was not correct! Joe and Pam have been married for 40 years and Pam continues to learn from Joe, and thanks to him, this former "city girl" love's the farm!
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International Sunflower Festival

2008 Grand Marshall
Joseph Metzger

Joe is a fourth generation farmer to live and work on the Metzger farm and he began his 4-H experience in 1952 as a 4-H member of the Kiwanis Steer Club with Dale Glass as the extension agent. He began with a single steer project until he was a high school freshman when he had pens of five steer projects and continued this throughout his high school days. Joe has been a 4-H advisor for 44 years, beginning in 1964 with Jim Starr, and continues as an advisor with the Concord Breeders and Feeders club. His 3 children were 4-H members with Joe as their advisor and they entered goat, sheep, and hog and steer projects in the Ross County Fair. They loved 4-H, as does Joe, and often talk about their experiences as 4-H members. Joe supports 4-H and the Ross County fair, not only as an advisor, but also as a buyer at the livestock project sales.

Joe has bee a Farm advisor and teacher for many years. He met his wife on a blind date in 1965 at teh Yound Farmers Sweetheart Dance in Columbus. Joe's wife Pam grew up in Columbus and had never met a farmer or visited a farm before, so she was a little nervous about going on a blind date with a "farmer". Joe's sister, Mary, was a classmate of Pam's (nursing school) and assured her that it would be fine. Pam and Joe not only had a good time at the dance, but also talked about farming. Joe described a "hog parlor" which Pam envisioned as a fancy place to keep hogs but later learned on her first visit to the farm this vision was not correct! Joe and Pam have been married for 40 years and Pam continues to learn from Joe, and thanks to him, this former "city girl" love's the farm!

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