The Russell County Conservation District has awarded Bobby
Grider the 2019 Master Conservationist for Russell County, Bethany Garmon as
the Russell County Woman in Agriculture award winner and Grayson Blankenship as
the Conservation College Scholarship recipient. Grider not only is recognized
as one of the top purebred sheep breeders in the county and state, but also in
the U.S. Garmon is an agriculture educator, FFA sponsor at Russell County High
School and a farmer, and Blankenship is currently a sophomore at Eastern
Kentucky University majoring in Animal Science.
