Six-month old Lily Hiesel and her mother, Rina, won the drawing for the baby quilt at the Sioux Empire Fair. They were presented their prize at the showing of the movie What Babies Want that was held at the Oakview Public Library on August 14th. The quilt was made and donated by Judy Wurtz. SDSCO set up booths at two fairs this summer. On June 7th and 8th, SDSCO families educated attendees of the Black Hills Wholistic Health Expo which was held in the Rapid City Civic Center. As well as having a booth at this fair, Chandelle Brink was able to share information during a 50 minute presentation on the History of Midwives in South Dakota. On August 5th-10th, we ran another booth, this time at the Sioux Empire Fair in Sioux Falls. We handed out a 1000 rulers with our website and the message “Midwives Measure Up” along with many bookmarks containing a recommended reading list and a list of licensed midwives in the state providing birth services. As a result of having the booth, Debbie Pease was invited to participate in a 30 minute radio interview with Jon Michaels on his KELO AM/FM Forum show which aired at 7:30 am on August 10th. It was amazing the way volunteers came forward to finance and man these two booths. The networking we were able to accomplish during these projects will go a long way to helping us during the legislative session. Between the two fairs we added over 60 new families to our mailing list, visited with about 15 legislative candidates and got our message out to the general public in a big way. Thank you so much to all of you who helped with either of these projects!