07/21/2025
🐔🎶 Wingin’ in the Rain 🎶🐔
Despite the weather, you all proved you’re the toughest birds in the barnyard—waiting it out til the real party hatched! We couldn’t have asked for a better flock. 🐓♥️
🎖️🐓 Here are this year’s feathered favorites:
• 👑 SMTA Cock-A-Doodle Crown: Jacob's Meats
• 🥩 Keith Grimm Golden Cleaver – People’s Choice: Iron Horse
• 🐥 Kuhn Brothers Cluckin’ Choice Award (car show): Dan Brown’s 1934 Model A
• 🎟️ 50/50 Raffle Winner: Rick from SMTA—who generously donated back to help 2026 soar even higher! 🐣💛
A huge cluck-out to our egg-spert judges Rep. Craig Riedel, Rep. Roy Klopfenstein, and Rep. Jim Hoops — for lending your bok-bok-beaks and peckin’ out the best of the best!
To our egg-ceptional vendors— Maverick Smokehouse, Fat Pig Smokehouse, Pink Penguin Premium Ice Cream, Emerson’s Cigar Lounge, Sherwood VFW Post 5665, La Michoacana Foods, Two Bandits Brewing Co. and our 2025 champions Jacob's Meats & Iron Horse —thanks for keeping our bellies full and spirits high! 🌮 🐷💨
To Matt and Joe, Shane Jackson, The Wannabees and Paulding County Economic stage for keeping us ‘Wingin’ in the Rain.” 🎶🐔
And a big wing-flap of gratitude to those who kept the little chicks chirping with joy: LifeWise Academy & Justin The Clown at the kids zone, and Sherwood Branch Library with the Friends of the Sherwood Library’s book sale! 📚🎈
THANK YOU to all of our volunteers at this year’s event. It takes a cluckin’ Village! 💪🐔
THANK YOU to Coach Rakes and the Fairview Apaches Football Team (Central Local Schools) for setting things up. THANK YOU to Jeff Hange and Fairview Young Farmers for helping tear down. “Many Beaks Make Light Work.” 💪🐔
We’re already hatching plans for Sher’Wing Thing 2026 — because this bird just keeps evolving. 🐤✨
Thank you to our 2025 Super Chickens and Mother Hens:
SMTA, Sherwood State Bank, Headquarters Barbershop, Iron Horse Brews, Apache Dairy Bar, Kuhn Truck and RV, Kuhn Brothers Service Center, Crystal Fountain Park, and East Vine.
Thank you to our 2025 Little Roosters and Baby Chicks:
Straley Insurance, Small Town Windows,LLC., Spatial Ag Systems, and Schroeder Farms & Excavating.