J. Schwartz Pecans Take Top Honors
James Schwartz’ pecans took top honors at the recent Glasscock County Pecan Show, being named both Grand Champion Seeding and Grand Champion Classic. Zane Eoff won Grand Champion Commercial, Wayne Cypert won Reserve Grand Champion Commercial, and Eugene Hirt took Second Place Commercial. These winners will advance to regional competition.
In food entries, Bart Belew won Grand Champion Adult, Carol Batla won Reserve Champion Adult, Bryson Batla was named Grand Champion Youth and Blayne Batla won Reserve Grand Champion Youth. Charlene Belew won First Place Adult Cake, Vikki Garza won First Place Youth Cake, Kelsey Jones took First Place Youth Cookies, and Jessi Jones won First Place Youth Miscellaneous.
The auction raised $250 in scholarship money to be awarded to a 2005 GCHS graduate.