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Going once! Going twice! Sold to the highest bidder: another successful junior livestock auction at the Union County Fairgrounds.

With 38 young sellers making laps around the auction pen before a large crowd of enthusiastic buyers Friday afternoon, the 34th Annual Junior Livestock Show and Sale, sponsored by the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce and Lion Oil, generated more than $76,000 in premiums, beating last year’s sale by over $6,000.

For almost two hours, area companies battled each other to issue the winning bids on fine livestock raised by local youths ...