McCrumb Wears Umb/Wool Crown
BY BARBARA RADER
Staff Correspondent
NEW CASTLE Lawrence
County Sheep/Wool Growers will
be represented by 17-year-old
Peggy McCrumb in November at
the Keystone International
Livestock Exposition during the
state Lamb/Wool Queen com
petition. She was crowned county
queen by Carol Shuler the 1982
Lawrence county queen filling in
for the absence of 1963 queen Mary
Jo Shick, who is attending college
and was unable to get away.
Runner-up Janet Shick, 16-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Shick, New Castle, is a
junior in school and is active with
the family’s flock of 60 registered
Shropshire, Hampshires and a few
grades. Sewing with wool is one of
her favorite past times.
Peggy, a senior at Mars Area
High School, stated that she’s been
involved with sheep since she was
two-years-old and has been in 4-H
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ever since she’s been old enough,
making this her 10th year She’s
presently a member of the Butler
County 4-H & FFA Livestock Club
which formed two years ago.
Peggy’s flock of sheep on their
Poverty Point Farm consists of 30
registered Southdown ewes among
the rest of the family’s Merinos.
Shropshires, Homed and Polled
Dorsets of 225 sheep, excluding this
years lambing. Along with her
parents, one brother and three
sisters, they enjoy showing their
sheep at the county fair and farm
show and surrounding county area
fairs.
She is an active member of the
Mars Presbyterian Church where
her father '<? the minister. She is
also active in the youth group. A
past member of the Business Club
in school, she presently is in the
Deca Club and works with the
school newspaper “Planet Dust”.
Her favorite past time when not
showing her sheep is rug hooking
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Peggy’s duties as queen include
participating at the Butler, Beaver
and Lawrence County fairs and
working with school children
promoting the sheep and wool
industry.
Although Peggy is being spon
sored by the Lawrence County
Wool Growers group, surrounding
counties and part of Ohio are in
cluded in the queen contest.
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In New Castle County, Chad
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Junior division winners were
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Torra Delano-Nuttal, Wilmington,
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