Volunteers spent months restoring fairgrounds after March flooding
(World News USA)

ARLINGTON - Jason Cloudt had a trial by fire just a couple months after being named president of the Washington County Ag Society. Actually, it was a trial by flood - when water inundated the Washington County Fairgrounds in Arlington. Mid-March flooding filled 10 of the fairgrounds´ 11 buildings with 3 feet of water. Debris - corn stalks and leaves - hung from fencing on the fairgrounds. Mud volleyball pits were under about 5 feet of water. Cloudt had served on the fair board for 14 years, but even with the long tenure, he couldn´t have anticipated this. It was admittedly overwhelming. `You take what you´re handed, but we were handed a pretty big basket,`...