—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 8,1979 36 Woodsmen Festival today MILTON GROVE-The Greentree Wooodsmen Festival will be today, Saturday, September 8. The events for the day are as follows: Saturday - 10 a.m. amateur woodsmen * com petition (all winners receive trophies); 1:30 p.m. Pro or Advanced Lumberjack Competition, |I,OGO in prize money given away. Wood smen events are: Standard Chopping, Standing Block Chopping, Log Rolling (team event), 2-man Cross Cut Sawing (team event), Jack & Jill Cross Cut Sawing (team event), Stock Chain Sawing, Modified Chain Sawing, Axe Throwing. Trophies will be awarded to the winners of the following events: Pole Climbing, Log Jousting, Southeastern Tobacco Spitting Contest, Ladies’ Nail Driving Con test. At 5 p.m. the Woodhick Ephrata Fair will open for 61st season The Ephrata Fair kicks off its 61st year on Tuesday, September 25th and con tinues through Saturday, September 29th. A tradition, originally celebrating the homecoming of World War I veterans, has grown into Pennsylvania’s largest street fair drawing over 200,000 persons each year. The annual parade, highlighting the five day affair, steps through the streets of Ephrata at seven o’clock on Wednesday evening, September 26th. (Ram date - September Working women seminar slated MEDIA - “Women and the Work Decision” is the title of a senes of 2 meetings for Delaware County women facmg the decision to enter the work force. The program is sponsored by tne Penn State Cooperative Extension Service. Greta C. Vairo, Extension Home Economist explains that the goal of the senes of meetings to be held in the Toal Building Auditonum, comer of 2nd and Orange Sts., Media, on Thursday, September 20 and 20 at 10:00 A.M. -12:00 noon, is to help women explore their feelings and attitudes Costume Contest will be held with the best costume of 1800’s lumbering era At 5:30 p.m. Falling Star Parachute Team; 6:30 p.m. New Life Quartet Gospel Show; and at 8:30 p.m. Shorty Long and the Santa Fe Rangers will present their 50th an niversary show. Anyone may enter the cake decorating contest. Cakes must be in the building by Friday evening at 9 p.m. the first two win ners will receive a $2O bill and a $lO bill. Cakes must be woodsmen oriented in decorating. Features mclude big fair ndes from Scranton plus exhibits, demonstrations, and games. The “Order of the Arrow” will be at the festival on Friday and Saturday. Plenty of parking is available with space for 27th). Over 65,000 viewers turn out to enjoy the talented high school bands, the marching and special in terest groups, the beautiful array of floats and the Miss Lancaster County Pageant contestants. ELCO High School, 1979 Honor Band, will be last in line of march and at the dose of the parade will present a concert m front of the viewing stand on Lake Street. Featured throughout the week are various displays to be found at specific locations within the fair grounds. towards employment as well as to teach effective decision-making skills to use when considering working outside the home. Employment outside the home for women is on the increase and The reasons for it are economic, personal and social, explains Mrs. Vairo. But while more women are choosing to work outside the home, especially those with small children, traditional values in society are often in direct opposition to this trend. “Just a housewife” used to be woman’s only occupation. overnight camping for self contained units The competitors will be present from West Virginia, Virginia, New Hampshire, New York, Northern Penn sylvania, Ohio. This will be one of the biggest competitions in the eastern part of Pennsylvania ever held. It will take m the northeastern United States Championship Lum berjacks. There will be plenty of food for everyone. The Greentree Woodsmen Festival will be held 1% miles north of the Rheems exit of Pennsylvania 1-283 (follow the signs), 22 miles south of Harrisburg, and 15 miles west of Lancaster For more information phone 717-653-2130. Buck Young and his wild animals will be there and also a petting zoo for the children. Housing the baked, canned, dried goods, jelbes, flowers, and crafts will be the basement of the J.J. Newberry Store. The former Reading Company Station on East Mam Street will exhibit needlework, 4-H clothing, etc. The Texgas Corp. Showroom, 11 South State Street, will display art work. Finally, vegetables, fruits, nuts and sunflowers will be found in the large tent on the borough parking lot. The agricultural portion of the fair, Tent City, is located But today, as more and more women enter the work force that term is seen by some as a degrading and unam bitious occupation. Labor statistics show that the majority of all women are engagmg in some form of gainful employment and these figures are increasing, especially for mothers of school age children. The public is invited to attend. Parking is available at the county garage at 3rd and Olive Sts. Zv^QCLCS Landis purchases champion 4-H iamb NORRISTOWN - T M. Landis of Mainland outbid all other contenders to bring home the grand champion Montgomery County 4-H lamb at the sale held recently in Perkiomenville. Landis paid $1.29 per pound for the animal belonging to Jim Rittenhouse of Harleysville. The animals was selected champion by judge Glen Keane of Penn State at the 1979 4-H Fair held earlier in Lansdale. Hennings Market of Harleysville purchased the reserve champion for $1.24 per pound from Scott Rit tenhouse of Harleysville. Joe Benzak of Benzak’s Wholesale Meats of Bristol bought the third place lamb owned by Irene Landis of Souderton for $.BB per pound. Additional buyers included in the Ephrata Community Park. Serving as a tem porary host to the baby beef, cattle, swme, sheep and poultry, becomes a bustling center of activity during the judging of the livestock. Also exhibited for public viewing will be tobacco, gram, forage, various farm displays and mini displays by youth groups. 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