By BECKY KISER
Hays Post

Ellis County Commission Chairwoman Barb Wasinger wanted to keep holding the Ellis County Fair Commissioner’s Cookie Jar presented at the start of Monday afternoon’s commission meeting.

It was hot and humid outside, and the glass jar was refreshingly cold to the touch.

The clear one-gallon jar, filled with nine different types of cookies brightly decorated with red, white and blue designs, was still chilled after it was removed from the freezer. That’s where it had been kept for freshness since Gloria Pfannenstiel was judged the winner of the Commissioner’s Cookie Jar in the Open Class Foods project during last week’s Ellis County Fair.

The jar itself also sported red, white and blue stars with a red, white and blue lid in keeping with the theme “All-American Flair at the Ellis County Fair.”

Pfannenstiel captured the same title five years ago.