HILLSBOROUGH -- Springtime is here and one of the community's rural traditions continues. The 63rd Central Piedmont Junior Livestock Show and Sale will be April 16-17 at the Holstein Barn on Orange Grove Road about seven miles south of Hillsborough.

The show offers an opportunity for 4-H and FFA youth to display their livestock project animals including steers, heifers, lambs, goats and pigs. Approximately 140 youth from Orange, Durham and surrounding counties will show their animals. The first show was held in Durham in 1946 and sponsored by the Durham Kiwanis Club. In 1988, the show moved to Orange County and is put on by the local Livestock Show Steering Committee. Local businesses, civic clubs and individuals help sponsor the show by financial donations.

The April 16 show begins at 1 p.m. with market hogs, lambs at 3:30 p.m. and market steers at 7 p.m. The next day, dairy goats begin showing at 8:45 a.m., followed by heifers at 11 a.m. and meat goats at 1 p.m. The annual Orange FFA Alumni BBQ supper will take place at 5 p.m. and the auction sale of animals begins at 6:30 p.m.

For information about the Junior Livestock Show, contact Karen McAdams at the Cooperative Extension Office in Hillsborough at 245-2050.