The Fair breakfast has become a favorite fair event of many in the community and it shows with over 90 people in attendance for the 2023 event. This event is a joint partnership with Lion’s Club, County Extension Council and 4-H Council. The breakfast serves a profitable fundraiser for the county’s 4-H Council to help with youth programming efforts throughout the year and be helps youth be recognized for their hard work with the projects they enter in the fair. This event has great buy in from our elected officials, local school system, business community including Chamber of Commerce, as well as family and friends of 4-H’ers. This year we had seven local elected officials, the city administrator and both of our state legislators were in attendance. During the breakfast, fair awards are handed out along with Lion’s Club awards.  This year’s 4-H fair exhibitors were up by 37% from 27 youth in 2022 to 37 youth in 2023 and fair entries increasing by 59% from 177 entries in 2022 and 281 entries this past year. Kentucky 4-H State Reporter, Kailyn Stokes brought greetings to the crowd by delivering a remarkable speech highlighting her journey to receiving and earning the coveted “green jacket”. Kailyn is a 4-H’er in Crittenden County and has grown up in the 4-H program and has big a big part of entering her own projects in the County and State Fair, so it was very special for our community to see her journey through the eyes of one of very own local 4-H youth. A special part of the morning is when the newest member of the Crittenden County Agriculture/ Rural Leadership Hall of Fame is recognized. The hall of fame is managed by the fair breakfast committee.  The fair breakfast has become a big part of the county fair and a day that we all look forward to during fair week.