
Rita is a 15-year leader with the Grover Guys & Gals 4-H club. She is a project leader for a variety of projects, and has helped at the county level with Self-Development Night, Style Review, and Interview Judging. Her husband, Donald Johnston, is also a 15-year leader with the Grover Guys & Gals 4-H. Donald is a leader for Goats, Sheep, and Gardening. He served for eight years on the Weld County Fair Board, and for 13 years as superintendent of the Goat show.
Rita says it’s a wonderful thing to watch 4-H members grow into confident leaders in their club, school, and community, and to feel that she helped them in that process in a small way. Her hobbies include traveling, singing with the Prairie Songbirds choir, showing goats, and various crafts. Rita has been employed in the information technology industry for 33 years. Presently she is a self-employed software application developer and consultant, while also serving as the Secretary of the Weld County Meat Goat Breeders.
Donald says 4-H is all about the kids to him, and he wants to help every kid have the very best 4-H experience possible. He includes showing Boer goats and helping with 4-H and FFA activities as his hobbies. He has been the Director of Maintenance and Transportation at Pawnee High School for the past seven years. Donald is one of the organizers of the Briggsdale Classic Livestock Show, a member of the American Boer Goat Association, and President of the Weld County Meat Goat Breeders since 2010. He and Rita operate a ranch, raising cattle & goats, south of Grover.