MISQUAH — The last Misquah trailer came back Labor Day evening. The extension office has posted the delegation’s results, and they are, as results at that level usually are, respectable and unspectacular. Nobody brought home a purple. Nobody expected to.

In the general project divisions: Mable Anderson, 10, took a blue on food preservation for dill pickles, in a class she reports had “way more people than the whole fair at home.” Kyliegh Braaten, 14, took a red in photography and has already identified what she thinks the problem was, which is the sky in one corner. Victoria Vang, 9, on her first trip, took a blue on the jumper she made and has worn it twice since, once to school.

Christopher Jonson, 17, took a blue on the rebuilt two-stroke and spent, by his own count, twenty-two minutes with a judge who asked about the notebook and not the engine. “The notebook is the project,” he said. “They tell you that when you’re nine and you don’t believe it until somebody spends twenty-two minutes on it.”

Jonson ages out this year. Asked whether he would come back as a helper, he said he supposed he would, and that somebody has to hold the halters.

In the animal classes: Maren Vekved fourth of thirty-one in dairy calf; Greta Vekved eleventh with Bernice; Liv Vekved mid-class with the dairy steer that stood still on purpose. Callie Tho, 15, placed ninth in market beef in a class of forty-four, which her father describes as “ninth in the state, and she is fifteen, and I would like people to hear it that way.” Owen Bergstrom, 18, took a red with the market hog in his last year of eligibility. Halen Patrick’s pen of broilers took a blue.

David Ruud, 13, placed sixth in market lamb and reports it is the best he has ever done at anything, a statement his mother asked this newspaper to print exactly as he said it.

Club advisor records show the eleven members logged 214 project hours between the county fair and Labor Day, not counting driving. The 2027 project sign-up opens in November.