A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Novamber 8,1980 BY DEBBIE KOONTZ HERSHEY - Chocolate town, U.S.A. will be the center of tempting events next week and it’s not due to candy. American Agri-Women from across the country will meet for their annual con vention, November 10 to 13, at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center and will feature numerous workshops with broadcast personalities and farm women. Penn’s Agri-Women, the only affiliate in the east is hosting the event which is being held for the first time in this region and probably the last tune for quite awhile, according to Emilie Welsh, publicity chairman. This is due to the fact that Agri-Women members are located in 35 states across the country. According to Gail Mc- Pherson, state president of Agn-Women, AAW is a coalition of 20 affiliates and individual members representing 22,000 mem bers located throughout the country. “It is a completely volunteer organization with no professional staff; only dedicated women who take tune from their busy farm and family lives to do the job that needs doing so badly.” American Agri-Women hope to be the voice for farmers because “they’re so busy working to produce the best and most food in the world to speak up for themselves ” At the convention, a Media Communication Workshop lasting from 8 a.m. till 5 p.m. will be presented all three days. Monday’s opening session will be on the Incredible Bread Machine. On the panel will be Hiram Dracbey and Susan Sechler. The af Calves average $645 at Piedmont FREDERICK, Md. The first Piedmont Invitational Club Calf Sale met a strong demand as 51 calves averaged an impressive $645. The sale was held November 1 here at the fairgrounds, and featured top consignments from breeders throughout Penn sylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Topping the sale was a black Limousin crossbred consigned by Russell C. Bennett & Sons of Woodbine Maryland. Bidding stopped when the calf’s price tag reached $lOOO. It sold to W. A. Shearer of Avonmore. Nittany Farms of State College, consigned a top Chiaiuna cross, bringing a $9OO bid from Brady Gillmore of Bellefonte. Pigeon Hill Farms of Abbottstown received $375 from Richard Klair of temoon session will include Peg Rogers, director of food advisory board, talking on critical food issues. Tuesday’s opening session will be Washington On The Line and will include an international panel of foreign agricultural attaches representing Australia, Brazil, and the Netherlands. Moderator will be Larry Waterfield, Washington, editor of the Packer. Land use, importing and exporting, fruit and vegetable trade will be discussed. Following a luncheon, Eileen Nutting, Agriculture Advisory Committee, Michigan Department of Agriculture, will talk on The Double Burden of Soviet Farm Women. The af ternoon session Tuesday will include a debate, Should Food Be Used as a Foreign Policy Tool? Wednesday there will be a convention tour to Donegal Mills Plantation, Groff’s Restaurant for lunch and to Sperry New Holland’s plant. Thursday morning Lilly Vincent, director of Con sumer Information, USDA will be speaking on People on the Farm. Puppetry will be utilized throughout the program at various occassions as a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and meats come to life. Then on Tuesday evening a puppet show will be shown for pediatrics at the Hershey Medical Center. American Agri-Women, who follow the motto “We can do it together,” have nine members sitting on federal commodity boards and twelve on national trade advisory boards. These farm women have testified at pesticide, farm labor, land use, labeling and mechanization hearings, and Hockession, Delaware, on their Hereford calf con signment. John Hausner of JDH Polled Herefords topped the Hereford Division with a $550 bid from Scott Kesslmg of Lovettsville, Virginia. John Bassler of Hayland Farms in Elhcott City, Maryland, sold a black Limousin for $B5O to Rick Morrall of Everett. E & K Club Calves of Lancaster sold a top sim mental crossbred calf to Jeff Greider, Lancaster, for $BOO. Brown’s Ranch, located m Gettysburg, consigned a Limousin crossbred which sold to Mike Catnno of Sykesville, Maryland for $625. The sale was jointly managed by Ollie Bennett of Woodbine, Maryland, and Ken Brubaker of Lancaster Brubaker also auctioneered .the sale ivol-Success in the ’Bo’s have spoken out in promotion of agriculture, the free enterprise system and against excessive govern ment regulation. Penn’s Agn-Women was formed m October of 1977 as an affiliate of AAW. 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