BY ROBIN PHILLIPS AND SANDY MOSER READING A first-ever, Berks County Dairy Festival was held last Sunday at the Gring’s Mill Recreation Area, Reading. If the crowd was any indication of success, milk promotion received a big boost with the help of the contests, entertainment, and food advertising the merits of milk to the estimated crowd of 3,000 people. Advertised as “free family fun,” the dairy festival drew a growing crowd of families to see and participate in the ice cream eating, milk drinking, tubing, cow milking and milk carton boat racing contests. “Undoubtedly the boat races were one of the biggest attractions Leader Jerry Krone, front, and Jimmy Wagner guide their Eastern Berks 4-H Dairy Club entry to the second place for most attractive boat and first place for highest crew count The Western Berks 4-H Dairy Club milk carton boat entry, the Milky Whey, was the award winner for the high milk carton count with a total of 692 cartons. mum®,. 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Billed as one of the first milk carton boat races in the state, twelve entries representing county 4-H clubs, FFA chapters, granges, private farms, area industry and local churches participated. Cash awards were given to the most attractive, high carton count, and the largest crew to stay afloat. Claiming first place in the ap pearance category was Noah’s Ark, the entry sponsored by Hopewell Mennonite Church in Reading. The boat was made using 315 cartons, sported cardboard bears and giraffes, and was manned by a sandelled and bearded Noah. Second place went to the entry of Eastern Berks 4-H Dairy Club, Congo Cruiser, that also has the high crew count with 20 people. The Cruiser was complete with tropical flowers, camouflage spray paint, and a stuffed snake and monkey. Crew members dressed in bale-string ‘grass’ skirts, tied-on coconuts and a traditional feedbag loincloth. “We had to name this boat the Congo Cruiser II because the first one sank,” said Linda Snyder whose children helped redesign and repair the entry. A total of 431 milk cartons were used in the final boat, including two blue and pink pints dangling from the earlobes of boat captain Jerry-Krone. Meow for Milk, the 282 carton Northern Berk 4-H entry, was awarded third place. The U.S.S. Milky Whey, with a contest high 692 cartons, represented the Western Berks 4-H Club and was designed by Karen Vale, a local art teacher. Club member Doris Stump was op timistic prior to the contest. “We * stuck it in the water for the first ' • -> _ a^av t ’’StamDMid tS Itdidthen Meow tor Milk, the 282 carton Northern Berks 4-H entry, Kutetown FFA proved to have was awarded third place. The boat is manned by Amy and the fastest boat as it covered the Tracy Phillips. 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