Toy show chairman
Toy Show Chairman Ron Hensel, at left, and his chairman-in-training assistant William Gregory, at right, with Boyd Sparks, winner of the show’s big prize, a model 2014 pulling contest tractor contest champion valued at about $300. Moments before Sparks, a Methodist pastor, won, he had offered a prayer for safe travels for the show vendors’ homeword travel in wintry weather, but he was teased with questions about whether he had also prayed about the prize.