10 Years Ago

Herald of Aug. 20, 2009

The Blair County Junior Livestock Sale went well Tuesday evening at Morrisons Cove Memorial Park, according to Brian Glick, auctioneer, despite a bad national economy.

Mr. Glick said he thought the crowd attending the sale was about the same in size as in past years, and more importantly, those attending were buying. Glick has been calling the sale for about six years, and assisted his uncle at the sale for about five years before that.

In comparing Tuesday’s sale of market animals to recent sales at the Huntingdon and Mifflin county fairs, he found that the market...