Charlene Rohrer wears Chester County dairy crown
WEST CHESTER - The 1981
Chester County Dairy Princess is
Charlene Rohrer, 18-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvin
Rohrer, Cochranville. Charlene
was crowned at the Russellville
Grange Hall, recently.
Charlene is a graduate of Lan
caster Mennonite High School and
is presently employed at Byler’s
Food Market in Gap. She is a
member of the “Choraleers,” a
singing gospel group which gives
programs across the state.as well
as special singing tours. She is
active in her youth group and is a
member of her church-chorus.
Charlene has also done volunteer
work at Black Rock camp.
The 1981 Chester County-
Alternate Dairy Princess is Nancy
Yamall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hoopes Yamall, Oxford. Nancy is
a graduate of Oxford Area High
School and plans on attending
Brandywine Junior College to
major in fashion merchandising.
She has been very active in her 4-H
dairy club, and her animals and
sewing garments have won her
many awards, < She is also a
member of Russellville Grange 91,
church choir and white in school
was in the senior chorus. National
Honor Society, FFA and varsity
volleyball.
When the two contestants
arrived in the afternoon, they were
interviewed one at a time by the
judges. The girls brought with
them a scrapbook including in
formation about themselves and
their family.
The evening judging was open to
the public when the contestants
appeared on stage to give
promotional presentations and
answer questions from the Master
of Ceremonies. The girls were
ushered on stage by their fathers.
The emcee for the evening was
Robert Rawlins. Public Relations
Tour Ashland's Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Ride the Steam lokie
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine
Who would ever dream that he would have an op
portunity to visit an actual coal mine 7 By now you can.
conveniently and in complete safety, at Ashland. Pa., m
the heart of Pennsylania’s famed anthracite region
Here, thanks to the efforts of a group of civic-minded
citizens who formed a nonprofit organization for the
purpose, a real honest-to-goodness coal mine managed
by real coal miners has been restored as a tourist at
traction. „
Pioneer Tunnel is what is known as a horizontal drift
mine It runs for 1200 feet straight into the side of
Mahanoy Mountain. You make the trip in comfort, riding
in open cars pulled by a battery-operated mine motor.
When you alight, deep inside Mahanoy Mountain, miner
guides tell and show you the fascinating story of an
thracite coal.
The mine temperature averages 55°, so please bring
your sweater or jacket. At times water drips from the
top of the mine and the floor planking is damp. Also,
guests ride in open cars behind the lokie, which is a coal
burning engine Visitors are advised to dress ac
cordingly
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Director for the Maryland-Virgmia
Cooperation.
The girls were each asked to give
a milk promotional skit.
Charlene’s skit involved a two
sided person, a waitress and a little
girl, discussing why one should
order milk instead of soda. Nancy
was a broadcaster with a “special
announcement” alerting the public
to milk’s good points.
The 1980 Dairy Princess Yvonne
King, crowned Charlene. Yvonne
gave her farewell comments to the
crowd and thanked them for their
support.on the county level and as
Pennsylvania first runner-up. She
summarized her county duties as
23 school programs, 36 newspaper
articles, 12 radio/television
Charlene Rohrer of Cochranville was named Chester
County’s 1981 dairy princess during ceremonies held at the
Russellville Grange Hall recently. Crowning her is the 1980
princess, Yvonne King.
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Picnic and playground facilities are
available in a park adjoining Pioneer
Tunnel Also nearby is a state-operated
museum devoted to mining technology and
geology
Moving on to the picturesque-town of
Ashland, another attraction awaits you, a
bronze replica of Whistler's famous
"Mother” painting, erected as a memorial
to the mothers of Ashland.
Geology buffs will enjoy searching for
fossils near a gigantic exposed fault. The
fossil.site is located about IVz miles from
Pioneer Tunnel, and guided tours can be
arranged at the Tunnel Office.
Pioneer tunnel was selected as one of the top ten
tourist attractions in PA in 1979, by PA Travel
Advisory Council.
Group rates available on request.
For Further Information Contact
ASHLAND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES
19th & Oak Sts., Ashland, PA 17921
Phone 717-875-3850
“Spend the day with us!”
programs, 10 super
market/shoppmg center
promotions, 6 promotions before
non-farm groups, 10 farm meeting
appearances, and 12 special
events. That super performance
entitles her to a |lOO cash award
from the Atlantic Dairy
Association for fulfilling standard
Dairy Princess requirements.
The judges, were Miss Eileen
Schull, the 1980 Pennsylvania State
Dairy Princess, Mrs. Linda
Musser, the proprietor of her own
beauty shop and consultant to the
State Princess Program, and Mr.
Robert McSparren, the President
of Interstate Milk Producers
Cooperative.
WEEKENDS SEPT. 6
THROUGH OCT. 31
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 11, 1981-CH
A big “added attraction" on your visit to Pioneer Tunnel is
an opoortunity to ride an old-fashioned, narrow-gauge, steam
locomotive (lokie), the Henry Clay. The Henry Clay, with its
string of brightly colored mine cars and of course a red
caboose, takes you on a three-quarter-mile ride around the
side of Mahanoy Mountain to show you another kind of mining
known as strip mining. The Steam Lokie will take you to
Mammoth Stripping - an area where an unusually thick seam
of anthracite known as Mammoth Vein bent up to the surface
of the earth. Here, in days gone by, monstrous steam shovels
of the Panama Canal type ripped out millions of tons of coal
from the exposed seam and left a 150-foot high man-carved
wall of solid rock extending as far westward as the eye can see.
You can look down into the gaping trenches man has left and
almost hear the crashing, clanking, rumbling coal mining
operations of yesteryear.
Nearby is a relic "bootleg” coal hole. This and others in the
area were dug by men who were willing to defy trespass laws,
brave caverns and company guards to obtain a fnw bags of coal
to sell or heat their homes
Steam Lokie