Over $3000 raised as sheep shorn for school

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Mon, 17 Sep 2012
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Leslie Beattie (Mahinerangi) shows his shearing prowess. Toby Hope (Deep Stream) tests his make-up applying skills on Anna Duncan (Outram) during the mystery teams event. Ben Young (Lawrence) shows the form that won him the Cocky Classic. Women's event winner Jessie Toole competes under the watchful eye of Leslie Beattie. Larry Langley relieves "Fiona" the sheep of her heavy 15.8kg fleece, watched by Leslie Beattie. Blake Young, of West Otago, was third in the open section. Catching up at the Lee Stream Clarks Junction community speed shear event were Murray Laing (Mosgiel) and Russell Beattie (Mahinerangi).
 

More than $3000 was raised for Lee Stream School at the recent Lee Stream-Clarks Junction community speed shear event.

About 250 people attended the event, held at Gavin and Cheryl Nichol's woolshed, with shearers coming from as far afield as Napier.

The open section was won by Sam Lewis, of Milton, with Bruce Thomas second and Blake Young third.

The Cocky Classic was won by Lawrence sheep farmer Ben Young, who received the Alan Nichol Memorial Trophy. Larry Langley was second and Grant Bezett third.

In the women's event, Jessie Toole, of Taieri, was the winner, followed by Anne Beattie and Anna Duncan.

The crowd-pleasing teams event involved the first team member applying lipstick to the second team member while standing behind them.

The third team member had to eat a sour-tasting lolly and then drink a fizzy drink through a straw about one-metre long, before the shearer in the team shore a sheep.

Another highlight was a guess-the-weight-of-the-fleece competition, with Princess Fiona, dubbed "Shrek's wife", relieved of a 4-year-old fleece weighing 15.8kg.

 

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