Executive Experience part 2

The top story in today's Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown paper:

Pilfered piglet returned
By Victoria NaegeleFor the FrontiersmanPublished on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:01 AM AKDT
PALMER — It took the intervention of a Good Samaritan midday Sunday to prevent a man from stealing a young mother’s newborn at the Alaska State Fair.Strawberry, a Duroc-Yorkshire gilt hog owned by Bob Shumaker, gave birth to her first litter early Sunday morning. It took her about five hours to deliver the piglets, which weigh about 3 to 4 pounds apiece.Only a few hours later, about noon, Alaska State Fair herdsman Rita Bequette heard shouting. “I heard someone yelling, ‘They’re picking up the pigs,’” Bequette said Monday, recalling the events of the previous day. “I was two lanes over when I heard the original yell. I dropped my broom and came.”Before she could get to the pen, she heard someone shouting, “He’s taken one. He’s taken one.”Bequette said people were pointing toward the main door of the barn, which leads onto the crowded paths near Raven Hall. “I was fighting through the crowds to get there,” Bequette said. Before she could reach the door, someone else had saved the piglet.“I saw a girl coming back toward me with the pig in her hands,” Bequette said.The man who had stolen the $100 pig, who Bequette described as in his late 30s or early 40s, was swallowed up in the crowd and disappeared. Bequette took the pig from the unidentified young woman and returned the baby to its mother and 10 siblings.