The Angus are coming! The Angus are coming! Echoes that remind us of Paul Revere's alert about the British. Angus are a British breed and they are coming up for sale in South Carolina in February and March. The month of February is dominated by bull sales each Saturday. Look for ads for the Clemson Bull Sale on Feb. 5; Black Crest Angus and Tokeena Angus on Feb. 12; Yon Family Farms on Feb. 19; Sarratt Angus Ranch on March 12; Carolina Angus Futurity on March 19. Results will be reported as they are available.

Historically the Carolina Angus Futurity is the big annual event for the South Carolina Angus Association. This event includes the sale of selected Angus females from the top breeders who are members of the SCAA. The sale begins at noon on the third Saturday in March at Clemson's Cattle Complex next to the T. ED Garrison Arena.

The Angus festivities will begin on the Friday night preceding the sale. South Carolina Angus members gather for the SCAA annual meeting and banquet. Here they will visit with old friends and meet new ones, new to the Angus business. Some come with a youth looking for a show heifer. Many of our present breeders began as a South Carolina Junior Angus. Celebrities who may be spotted there are Sally Yon, Miss American Angus 2010; Cory Watt, the South Carolina Junior Angus president; Jeremy Haag , Angus Hall of Fame; David Gazda, American Angus Association representative and Kevin Yon, newly elected member to the American Angus Association Board of Directors.

40th Carolina Angus Futurity

This year the 40th Carolina Angus Futurity takes place on Saturday, March 19, 2011 again at Clemson's Cattle Complex. Frankie Mullikin, as SCAA vice-president, serves as the sales chairman (864-506-1282). Only SCAA members are eligible to enter their Angus in the sale and only the best of the breed is allowed.

SCAA Annual Meeting and Banquet Date, Place, and Time

The South Carolina Angus Association annual meeting and banquet will be held on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:00 for Social Hour and 7:00 for the dinner and annual meeting at Tucker's Restaurant in Anderson, SC. The new directors will be introduced. The Futurity will be dedicated to a member who has contributed to the Angus breed and the SCAA by unselfish service. Walter Shealy, Evelyn Edmunds and Billy McLeod will announce the inductees into the SC Angus Hall of Fame.

The new SCAA Directory: It is time to publish a new directory for SCAA. Paid-up members will be included in the new directory. Ad pages will be auctioned off at the banquet. SCAA dues are only $20 and may be sent to Windy Bartee, 1717 St. Paul Church Road, Clover, SC 29710 with your contact information.

Locations and Reservations:

Tucker's Restaurant is located at 3501 Clemson Blvd., Anderson, SC, Tel: 864-844-2452. The cost will be $25 per person. Children 10 and under are $10. Social hour is 6:00. The dinner will begin at 7:00. (Directions: Take Exit 19 A from I-85 onto Clemson Blvd. (Hwy 76) Tuckers will be a few miles down on your right.) Notify Windy at 803-222-7533 or tumblet8@bellsouth.net to reserve a spot for dinner.

Hotel rooms for March 18th have been blocked off at Comfort Suites. Mention the South Carolina Angus Association for the rate. Comfort Suites, 118 Interstate Blvd., Anderson, SC 29621, Exit 19 off I-85 @ $75.99 plus tax. Call (864-622-1200) before March 17th.

Many of you know Cory Watt as the president of the South Carolina Junior Angus Association and a junior showing Angus. While Cory was a high school, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had it removed. He was able to finish high school and continue to show his Angus. The cancer was gone. Then in 2010 as he was a freshman at Clemson, the tumor was detected again in his brain. Many family, friends and Angus breeders were notified about Cory. Cory bravely continued with his showing and studies while the doctors decided how to attack his cancer. Cory was in Louisville in November to show his heifer at the NAILE. In January Cory sent the following message:

Windy,

I haven't talked to you since Louisville and just wanted to let you know that I had Radiation Surgery on January 5th in Emory and everything went good. The Dr was speechless when the planning MRI he did on the 4th showed that everything was clean and there was no sign of any tumor there. (Guess he doesn't know about the great Physician.) I am still taking a Chemo pill called Temodar for 5 days every 28 days for a year just for precaution. I am back at Clemson and everything is getting back to normal for everyone. I would like to thank everyone in the SCAA, SCJAA, and all Angus breeders for all their calls, cards and most of all their prayers.

Thanks Again,
Cory

Thankfully we can be involved with youth like Cory and with other Angus breeders in a country whose freedom was made possible by our forefathers like Paul Revere.

Feb 2011 Cory Watt, president of SCJAA and freshman at Clemson, Corry and Jody Watt showing his Angus at the NAILE in Louisville, November 20, 2010.

Sally Yon as Miss American Angus 2010.

Cory Watt graduated from high school posed here with Uncle Mark Duffell from Whitestone Angus.

Bubba Bamberg and Walter Shealy checking out the lots before the Carolina Futurity.

Registering at the SCAA annual banquet and meeting. before the Carolina Futurity Paul Wilkie, Ted Bartee, and Gwen McPhail.

Angus for sale at the Carolina Angus Futurity.

Sandi and Bobby Mullikin family with Steve McPhail II enjoying a previous SCAA banquet and meeting.

Taking the bids at the Carolina Angus Futurity.

(If you have news for SCAA, please send to Windy Bartee at 803-222-7533 or tumblet8@bellsouth.net. The SCAA has a web site at www.scangus.org. SCAA members receive a copy of Angus Topics. A new SCAA directory will be printed this year. Ads are $150 for a full page or $100 for one-half page. Prime pages will be auctioned at the meeting on March 18th.)