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Kimley attended a long list of events as queen, both at the fair and after it ended. Her reign also helped her meet one of her best friends.
Kimley, 19, met Pickaway County’s fair queen when she visited the Clark County Fair, and then again at the state fair. They unexpectedly ran into each other again on the first day of college.
“Make the most of the fair week,” the 2016 graduate of Southeastern High School from South Charleston advised the next queen.
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Kimley, whose family runs Kimley Show Pigs, was also named the 2015 Pork Queen and has won showmanship in pigs every year since she was 8. Showing pigs has taken her throughout the country and even helped determine her course of study. She’s now an agricultural communication major who will be at Ohio State University this fall after spending a year at Ohio State’s Agricultural Technical Institute.
“My involvement with pigs has really sparked an interest in that,” said Kimley, who will be showing pigs through FFA at this year’s Clark County Fair.
Kimley has a passion for agriculture and has done a great job representing the Clark County Fair, said Debbie Corbitt, the fair’s queen contest coordinator and a former Clark County Fair queen herself.
“She is going to do wonderful things outside of the fair,” she said.
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