Kline’s Aged Cow Named Supreme Champion
BY SUZANNE KEENE
AND MARTHA GEHRINGER
LEBANON - Youthful
exhibitors led their 4-H and FFA
project animals into the showring
for junior dairy competition at
Lebanon Area Fair Tuesday.
For Sharon Kline of Myerstown
and her 9-year-old Holstein cow C
Midland Mardi Judy, the walk
around the ring was worth the
effort. Judy was first named
champion FFA Holstein and was
later selected supreme champion
of the junior show. ClassifedEX9o,
Judy was sired by Little River
Mardi Gras. She was bred by Bliss
Johnson.
“She’s got the most age to her,
and she has held together well,”
judge Dean Daubert said in
selecting the supreme champion.
A member of the Elco FFA
Chapter, Sharon also claimed the
FFA reserve champion honors
with her 3-year-old entry, C Almet
Northern Gertie. Gertie is
classifed VG 85 and has been a
member of the Kline Herd for
several years.
This year’s champion was
supreme reserve champion at the
Lebanon Fair last year.
The 4-H Holstein championship
went to four-year-old Sher-Don
Rorae Valiant Holly, owned by
KentHoffer.
“She’s dairy from one end to the
other,” judge Billy Joe Heath of
Westminster, Md., said.
Classified VG 85 as an early 3-
year-old, Holly boasts a production
record of nearly 22,000 pounds milk
and 750 fat as a three-year-old. She
was reserve grand champion at
last year’s fair.
Kent, the 16-year-old son of
Donald and Sherry Hoffer of R 4
Lebanon, is a member of the
NoSoAnn Dairy Club.
For his 4-H reserve champion,
Heath turned to a two-year-old
homebred cow owned by Kynel
Bomgardner. Sired by Birch-
Kent Hoffer, left, captured the 4-H grand champion rosette,
while the reserve championship went to Kynel Bomgardner.
The FFA junior champion belonged to Dale Weaver.
Hollow Royalty, Loving-Meadows,
Sandra was junior champion at the
Fair last year.
Kynel, the 14-year-old daughter
of John and Margaret Bomgard
ner, is a member of the Norlebco
Dairy Club.
The 4-H junior championship
belonged to Stephanie Wagner and
her homebred senior yearling
heifer, Ju-Vindale Tradition
Bobbie. Sired by Sweet-Haven
Tradition, Bobbie was first-place
senior calf at last year’s Lebanon
Fair.
Stephanie, the 12-year-old
daughter of Vincent and Juliet
Wagner of Myerstown, is a
member of the Elco 4-H Club.
Dale Weaver showed his
homebred intermediate yearling
heifer Beach Wood Starfire Sylvia
to the FFA junior championship.
Sired by Thumb-Pride Starfire,
Sylvia was first-place in
termediate calf at the Fair last
year and won a blue ribbon at
district competition.
Dale, the 20-year-old son of John
Weaver, Myerstown, is no
newcomer to the showring. He
claimed the 4-H championship at
last year’s show.
Becky Sonnen took the 4-H
reserve junior champion place
with her senior heifer calf Sonnen-
Acres Saul Cherish. Becky was
both pleased and surprised with
her placing. “I’ve never been first
here before,” she beamed.
Becky, the 16-year-old dughter of
Paul and Marilyn Sonnen,
Richland, is a member of the Elco
Dairy Club.
The FFA reserve junior
champion was air intermediate
heifer calf owned, by Sherry
Donmoyer of Annville. Sired by
Swampy-Hollow Valiant Rick-ET,
Sherry’s entry was junior
champion at FFA district com
petition last year.
Sherry said she purchased her
heifer from John Bomgardner. She
Sharon Kline garnered supreme champion honors at the conclusion of the Lebanon 4-
H and FFA shows. Earlier in the day she captured the grand champion title of the FFA
Holstein show. Dale Maulfair, left, presented the supreme champion trophy while judge
Dean Daubert looks on.
is a member of Northern Lebanon
FFA.
COLORED BREED SHOW
All four colored breeds
registered strong competition,
possibly the strongest they will
face all summer, in the 4-H and
FFA shows.
The Ayrshire show started the
Tuesday evening competition.
Wesley Harding Jr. of Lebanon
dominated the Ayrshire youth
show, stepping into eight champion
spots in both the 4-H and FFA
competitions. He claimed the 4-H
grand championship with his aged
cow, Penn-Bell King Vue’s Penny,
sired by Ardrossan King Vue.
Harding claimed the reserve
position with his Junior 2-year-old
cow, Green Brae Pudges Stancey.
Jesse Maulfair, Fredericksburg,
edged Harding’s homebred entry
for the Junior championship crown.
Maulfair showed his junior heifer
calf, Maulfair-Acres Barry Sugar,
a daughter of Burr-Ayr-Farms
H.K. Barry. Harding’s reserve
junior champion, a homebred
intermediate yearling, was sired
by Heb-Ayr Major.
During the FFA contest, Har
ding returned to the ring and stood
in the grand champion position
again, this time with his junior 2-
year-old, Chestnut Ridge Starboy
Pandora. Heather Hernley cap
tured the reserve grand position
with her dry cow, Ann Ayr Fortune
Valerie. A daughter of Oak Ridge
Flashy Fortune, she was scheduled
to freshen within the week.
Veteran showman Hernley
reversed the placings in the junior
championship claiming the
champion position with her senior
yearling, Timberlawn Squire’s
Annie. Harding stepped into the
reserve place with his senior
yearling, Palace Sunflower.
In the 4-H Brown Swiss com
petition, the grand and reserve
grand champion placings went to
Judy Mase, Lebanon. She took the
grand champion spot with her
homebred 3-year-old cow, Meadow
Hill Prospect Lauren, a daughter
of V B Great Prospect. Reserve
grand went to Mase’s aged cow,
Jessie Improver Lena.
Michael Kunkle, Jonestown,
topped the junior Swiss com
petition, winning both junior and
reserve junior champion titles.
His junior heifer, Shady-Creek
Karen Kelli-Twin, placed over his
intermediate heifer calf, Shady-
Creek Westley Betty based on an
advantage in dairy character.
Richard Wenger, Manheim, bred
both animals.
Bruce Heilinger garnered the
grand champion rosettes for the
FFA competition with a pair of
homebred entries. Heilinger’s
Stephanie Wagner, right, showed the 4-H junior champion
while Becky Sonnen, left, had the junior reserve.
junior 2-year-old entry, Nutty
Jubilation Nic-Twin, edged out his
junior yearling heifer, Blueberry
Telstar Becky, for the grand
champion position. Becky received
the junior champion ribbon earlier
in the show.
A third homebred animal owned
by Heilinger stepped into the
junior champion spot, giving him a
sweep of all the major ribbons with
the exception of the reserve senior
champion.
Judy Shade, Myerstown, copped
the reserve senior placing with her
junior 2-year-old daughter of
Meadow View Streachy Signal.
Thomas H os tetter, a second-
Both the grand and reserve grand FFA honors went to
Sharon Kline. Here she gets a hand showing them from her
husband, John.
year 4-H member, grabbed the
grand championship with his
junior yearling heifer, a Dutch Mill
Telestars Fayette daughter bred
by Jacob Smith and Son of Ann
ville. Last year this animal placed
in the reserve grand position.
Charity Hostetter stood next to
her brother with the reserve grand
champion of the show. She placed
with her junior heifer calf by
Raemelton Deacons Fashion.
The grand and reserve grand
championship of the 4-H Jersey
show went to a pair of 3-year-old
cows. Brenda Dice, Palmyra,
walked to the grand champion spot
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