B2o— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 9, 1982
Personalities *pull 9
LANCASTER —Last Friday and
Saturday, downtown Lancaster
had all the sights and sounds of the
county’s agri-industries.
A ewe with two lambs, a couple
market hogs and a few head of
Holsteins had pedestrians lined-up
three-deep on Penn Square.
The country had moved in for a
couple days thanks to the second
annual Downtown Harvest
Festival, sponsored by the
Agriculture Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce.
“This is really a county-wide
effort,” explained committee
chairman John Barley. The intent
of the two-day festival, he said, is
to provide focus on Lancaster
County products to the non
farming public.
While the number of exhibitions
and pieces of machinery grew so
did the attendance, especially
among the school-age crowd.
The festival attracted more than
1,100 school children who filed in
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Commonwealth Bank's Agri-Loan chief Bob Bucher has his _
omlet creations surveyed by Lancaster County Poultry"**'”
Princess Darlene Musser.
Of course no contest is complete without highly respected officials. Lancaster County agents
Jay Irwin, left, and Glenn Shirk, check for uniform weights on the milking pails.
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Lancaster County Dairy Princess LuAnn Brenneman milked her way to a ChaUenge Round
Championship when she squared off with the Harvest Festival milking a P.
McElhinny, chairman of the board, Hamilton Bank.
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went on to win his round with a
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Lancaster County Commissioner Jean Mowery offers a few
encouraging words to her milking contest partner, while
Michelle Dean of Lampeter-Strasburg looks on.
The Harvest Festival attracted more than 1,100 school
children, who seemed to keep Pen Supreme dippers, Joe
Gray, left, and Rodney Spangler busy ail day. Gray estimated
that more than 600 free ice cream cones were passed out by
noon.
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