—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 17, 1974
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Nancy Jenkins and Jody Alexander
4-H Leaders
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Horses and ponies are becoming more popular than
they were a few years ago. Part of this may be due to 4-H
horse and pony clubs. One of the newest ones in Lancaster
County is the Conestoga Crusaders 4-H Horse and Pony
Club which organized last April or May. Mrs. Peter B.
(Jody) Alexander, Pequea RDI, and Mrs. Robert I.
(Nancy) Jenkins, Conestoga RD2, are the leaders. The
club has eleven or twelve members and meets once a
month at the Alexander farm.
Mrs. Jenkins says “Many children get horses and
ponies but never take care of them. Now that the club
members do, they are really enjoying their horses. I think
a parent has to get involved by helping the child saddle
and bridle their horse, hold it and work with it. That is the
main reason I’m involved in the club.”
Mrs. Alexander says “I am very enthused with the 4-H
horse club. It is a marvelous way for the children to get
involved and not have expensive equipment.”
The purpose of this club is to teach the children to take
care of and handle their animals. The children have to
discipline themselves and their horses. Mrs. Jenkins says
her children, Julie Ann and Paul who are club members,
have to feed, exercise and use their animals, groom them,
clean their hoofs and clean the stable.
All of this 4-H club’s members have attended the two
mounted meetings they had. Mrs. Jenkins says “We train
the children off the main roads and on trails. We are most
grateful to Tom Grassel and James Lydell for letting the
club members ride through their farms because many
farmers do not permit horses to cross their farms. Nine of
the members and both leaders attended the 1974 Lan
caster County 4-H Horse Show on the Columbia Pike. They
hope to get into the Lancaster County round up next year.
Officers of the Conestoga Crusaders are Margy
Alexander, president; Jackie Shopf, vice president; Gene
Eisenberger, secretary; Donna Walton, treasurer; Julie
Jenkins, news reporter; Joyce Ressler and Dale Eisen
berger, song and game leader. Each member pays 25
cents a month dues with which to build jumps and a small
ring at Alexanders to practice with.
Mrs. Jenkins, who calls her own horse a prayer horse,
wonders if anyone wants to get a good home for a pony or
small horse. A girl in her community is saving money and
wants to get one.
Alexanders’ farm has 140 acres and is located on Sand
Hill Road and Sickman’s Mill Road in Conestoga Town
ship. They breed and raise Thoroughbred racing horses.
At the present time they have four yearlings, three brood
mares, three riding horses and three ponies of their own
and are boarding a pony and a horse. They have lived on
this farm two years. They farm part of it and get it into
Mrs. Jenkins trains dogs by demonstrating with the
Doberman Pinscher on left and the English Springer
Spaniel on the right
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Helping to Get Children Involved
pasture. Another farmer has rented some of it and raises
a little com and alfalfa and has the pasture on shares.
Before coming to this farm Alexanders had a 23 acre
farm at Washington Boro for four years. They had two
horses there. Jody originally came from Virginia. Peter
grew up on a farm in Baltimore County, Md. He is
president of Fleck-MarsHalT Co., a wholesale plumbing
and heating company. This company was originally from
Williamsport but now has branches also in Harrisburg,
York, Baltimore and New Holland. They have an office in
Lancaster.
Alexanders have four children. Margy is eleven years
old, Danny six, Julie five and Suzanne two and a half
years. They attend school in Manor Township.
Mrs. Alexander formerly served as assistant leader of
the cooking club of the Penn Willow 4-H Community Club.
Her hobbies are horses, vegetable garden, lawn and
flowers.
Alexanders are members of the Cbnestoga United
Methodist Church where Mrs. Alexander teaches a
Sunday School class. She is an active member of the
Junior League of Lancaster and serves on committees.
The Jenkins family has lived on Main Street, near River
Road in Conestoga Township for two and a half years.
Before that they lived in Lancaster and near Safe Harbor.
Actually Nancy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Habecker, owned the home where Jenkinses live from the
time she was six years old until Jenkinses bought it two
and a half years ago from her mother. Nancy attended
Stone Hill School, a one room school, graduated from
Penn Manor High School and went one year to Millersville
State College.
Nancy named her horse “Pegasus” for the Greek
mythology winged horse. Besides her interest in the 4-H
horse and pony club and her household duties she has
interesting side lines which take a lot of time. She took
training at the Lancaster Dog Training School which is
held at the baseball park in Mountville in summer and at
“The Hut” in Columbia in winter. She trained her own
German Shepherd dog six years ago, then trained her
doctor’s dog. Her husband bought and showed a Dober
man pinscher. This dog died but she trained her Dober
man pinscher dog “Elsa” which is now a AKC certified
companion dog. She has trained her English Spaniel dog
“Muffin” but this dog is not finished training for a degree.
Nancy useslfiese dogs for demonstration dogs in con
nection with her work at the Country Club Kennels on
Stony Lane, Pequea Township. The kennels are owned by
Walter & Sara Lefever & son Charlie who have a boarding
kennel for dogs and cats. They have enough pens and
outside runs for fifty dogs. They don’t breed and sell dogs,
but keep the animals when people are on vacation and
keep some just to be trained. Nancy works two hours
every day but Sunday training any breed dogs. The most
she will train in a three week training period is a half hour
for each dog each day. She also has an obedience class
Tuesday nights to teach dog owners how to train their
dogs. It is a basic obedience class which includes heeling,
sit stay exercise, down stay, stand stay, recall, and finish.
She teaches for ten weeks, one hour each evening.
Mrs. Jenkins helps Carroll and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Herr, near Rawlinsville, plant pumpkin seed, tomatoes
and with eggs. Herrs grow regular crops, pumpkins and
tomatoes, keep 31000 chickens, 25 to 30 steers and 25 to 30
hogs. She helps Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Heller of the Berry
Dale Farm near Conestoga to pick strawberries, cherries
and raspberries. Nancy also worked on friends’ nearby
farm with tobacco.
Robert drives 40 foot tractor trailers for Yellow Freight
System whose mam terminal is on the Manheim Pike, just
north of Lancaster. He has driven a tractor trailer for six
years. He served on the Lancaster city police force from
1960 to 1966.
They have three children. Russell, 14, will be in tenth
grade at Penn Manor this fall. He wants to go to the
Willow Street Vo-Tech School to become a motorcycle
mechanic and probably go to a mechanic school. His
hobby is keeping a large motorcycle scrapbook. He helps
his uncle on a farm near Rawlinsville. Russell has been a
member of Boy Scout Trooj) 146, which meets at
Conestoga Elementary School, for two years.
Julie Ann, eleven years old, is in seventh grade at
Marticville Middle School. She is active in the horse 4-H
club. Her half Shetland pony and half Arabian horse’s
name is “Pnnce.” She has had him for two years. She
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Mrs. Robert Jenkins and her horse Pegasus, Julie
and her horse Prince and Paul with his pony, Pixie.
took some flute lessons.
Paul, 9, has a Shetland pony named “Pixie” in the 4-H
club. Paul is in fourth grade at Conestoga Elementary
School.
Jenkinses are members of Safe Harbor United
Methodist Church. Nancy taught Junior class in DVBS.
She is in a prayer group that meets from 1 to 3 P.M. on
Wednesdays and a Bible study group that meets in the
homes every other Thursday night. She, Russell and Julie
used to sing in the choir.
Mrs. Jenkins was president of Stevens Elementary
School PTA in Lancaster and later became a member of
Conestoga Association of Parent Teachers.
She has a collection of miniature kerosine lamps.
Here are some of her favorite recipes as well as recipes
for a zucchini squash casserole and,a peach short cake of
Mrs. Alexander’s.
% medium or large firm eggplant
¥« can (29 oz.) tomato sauce
1 pound pack Motzerella cheese (wrapped & sliced)
1 can grated Parmesan cheese
Dried bread crumbs
2 or 3 eggs
Peel eggplant, slice into pieces about V* inch thick. In
separate pans have beaten eggs and bread crumbs. Dip
slices of eggplant alternately in eggs then bread crumbs,
covering completely. Then place eggplant slices, in sheet
pan, under broiler to golden brown on both sides.
Now use about Vi or a little more of tomato sauce to
cover eggplant, then Motzerella cheese, the rest of the
tomato sauce and sprinkle on grated Parmesan cheese.
Turn oven to 325 degrees for about hour or more until
cheese and tomato sauce meet and blend together.
Boiled sliced zucchini squash covered with a cheese
sauce made from a little milk mixed with cheddar cheese
soup.
SERVING TREAT FOR WEIGHT-WATCHERS
rey toast crackers
Julie, Paul and Mrs. Jenkins pose with their hobby
collections - horses, motorcycle scrapbook and
miniature kerosene lamps.
EGG PLANT PARMESAN
VEGETABLE DISH
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