Every year at this time many things tell us that a new season is upon us. The weather starts getting warmer and town celebrations are underway. Emmett has the Emmett Cherry Festival, Star has Star’s Hometown Celebration, and Meridian has the Meridian Dairy Days.
This year’s Meridian Dairy Days runs from June 14th through the 19th and has all sorts of events for the whole family.
One event is Cow Wow Art Contest that is presented by the United Dairymen of Idaho. What is the Cow Wow Art Contest you ask? Well the Cow Wow Art Contest is a contest where Meridian businesses, groups and individuals decorate plywood cows to show off their creativity and vie for prizes. Prizes are awarded for Most Creative, Theme, Best of Herd, Largest Herd, and The People’s Choice Award.
The Meridian Chamber chooses a theme each year and all the cows need to reflect this theme in some way. This year’s theme is Moo-scots, and IDADIV would like to introduce you to our very own Maribelle.
This year Maribelle will be dressed up as “Moo”Lah from Money University. Come and stop by Storey Park and vote for your favorite cow and while you’re there stop by the Kids Corral which we are pleased to announce that IDADIV is sponsoring this year!
~Chance
Here are some other pictures of “the process of creating Maribelle”
Since the contest doesn’t officially start until Monday, we don’t want to give away all our secrets just yet. Be sure to check back next week for updated pictures!
