Barbara Lawlor, Gilpin County.  For the past 21 years, Vicki Nemec of Gilpin County has been involved in the County's annual Fair, the crown jewel of events at the end of the summer. She has run the Fair for the past 17 years and says its success is due to the wonderful committee of volunteers who meet about once a month and who coordinate all the events at the Fair.

Vicki is turning the Fair over to Heather Pearce, who has been Vicki's assistant and will be the new organizer of the 2016 fair.

"I am proud to say these people work together like no other committee I have ever been on to make it the best Fair they possibly can. I could not have done it without each and every one of them.  Besides myself and Heather Pearce, the other committee members are  Roxie Morris, Linda Watson, Carol Murray, Kevin Webb, Kelli Bayne, Diane Stundon, Casey Newman, Kathi Lambert, Gigetta Nadeau, Jessie Ruhl and Mary Lorenz, and recently yourself.  And I don't want to forget all the others that volunteer under these people to make their specific event so successful.  While I will be Heather's helper as long as I am still with the County, it was kind of a sad time for me knowing that it is my last one to coordinate, but my body is grateful as it knows it is way too old to be working that hard any longer."

When Vicki and her husband  sell their  house, they hope to move to Grand Junction and settle where it's not so cold or snowy.  And then, after Vicki retires next summer, they will travel in their 5th wheel and see some of the country they have never seen.

Vicki has seen the fair grow and evolve into one of Gilpin's most well-attended family events, and she will be missed by all of the volunteers she has worked with for so long.