Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 4.1970
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Pond to Beautify, Give Recreation
Calvin Baker, (foreground) Manheim excavator, marks
out the water line for a new farm pond on the Lester Grein
er farm, Manheim RD4.
What does a faimei do with a
couple of acres of swampy and
vn tualh useless ground neai his
home" 7
Well, build a pond, says Lestei
G einei, Manheim RD4
Thats what Gieinei is doing
with a piece of watei-logged land
neai his home
The land is a natuial site foi
a pond, with plenty ol spi mgs to
feed it
Besides eliminating the un
sightly and lelatively useless
mess that was theie befoie,
G>einei figuies he will have top
notch iccieation light close to
home
His wife had wanted him to
build the pond foi the past sev
eial veais, he said
Giemei expects to enjoy it,
too He’s going to stock it with
fish
The pond was built by Calvin
Baker, Manheim excavator, and
Howaid Shenk was the machine
opeiatoi foi Baker. This week,
the work ciew was putting stone
along the water-line at the spill
New Christy Minstrels
To Appear at Long Park
New Holland Division of
Speiry Rand Coipoiation will
piesent The New Chusty Min
sliels in conceit at the Long Paik
Amphitheatei, Lancaster, Sun
day evening, July 12, at 7 30 p m
The piogiam, fiee to the pub
lic, is being piesented by New
Holland foi the community as
pai t of the company’s 75th An
mveisaiy celebiation
This peifoimance at Long Paik
will cap off a weekend of 75th
Anniveisaiy festivities for New
Holland and its emplojees On
Satin day, July 11, employees and
then families will attend the
company’s 30lh annual employee
picnic at the New Holland Com
munity Park
The New Chustv Minstiels, five
guj'S and thiee gills, made their
initial appeal ance as the NEW
Chusty Minstiels in 1961 in Los
Angeles, have sold millions of
jecoids, done dozens of TV
shows and have made peisonal
appeal ances all ovei the woild
Then single lecoidmg of “Gieen
Giecn” sold ovei thiee million
lecoids and was a haibinger of
thiee Columbia gold albums to
follow “Ramblin’, ’ “Today,” and
“The New Chusty Minstiels’
GieatestHits ’
way to discourage muskiats and
were getting leadj to put the
topsoil back along the wateihne
Gieinei estimates the new
pond is 525 feet long and about
half that wide, with a bteast 100
feet wide at the bottom anu
tapenng to 12 feet at the top
duvewaj The pond will be 15
leet deep at the bieast and will
covei moie than two acies,
Gieinei estimates
Aheady looking to the time
when he will have a beautiful
pond that will net him and his
family a lot of enjovment,
Giemer said, “You should have
seen this befoie we staited It
v\ as awful ’
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Lester Greiner, (left front) watches home and farm buildings are in the back
workmen put the finishing touches on his ground,
new two acre-plus farm pond The Greiner
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