826-Lancast«r Farming, Saturday, Octobar 11,1986
Myiin Sisters An Manheim Leadline Winners
BYJACK HURLEY
MANHEIM The woman had
just picked up her dessert at the
Manheim Fair’s funnel cake stand
when she noticed the flock of
immaculately fitted sheep and
their equally stunning owners
parading around the fair’s
baseball diamond during the
leadline competition. “Did you
realize sheep were so beautiful?”
she exclaimed to her husband.
Of all the fair season’s livestock
events, the leadline competition is
the hands-down winner when it
comes to head-turning pageantry.
Unlike the type judging shows,
both the animals’ and their
owners’ appearance count in
leadline. Participants at Manheim
must wear outfits composed of at
Twin Valley FFA members
received numerous awards at the
recent Reading Fair. Leading was
the list of senior division winners
was Rick Hicks, who placed first in
the livestock judging contest. Rick
also led the chapter’s senior team
to a first place award.
Other Twin Valley students
placing in the senior livestock
contest were Tom Morgan, fourth,
Dwight Stoltzfus, seventh, Rich
Slonaker, ninth, and Robert Bell,
tenth. The junior division contest
was won by Hamburg, with Twin
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least 75 percent wool and are
judged on their own appearance
and poise, as well as the ap
pearance and behavior of their
sheep.
This year’s event was a family
affair, with Michelle Mylin and her
sister Andrea winning the senior
and junior divisions, respectively.
Michelle’s yearling Hampshire
ewe named Elizabeth was forced
to do double duty in Tuesday
night’s show, since 10-year-old
Andrea’s four-legged partner was
under the weather. A showring
veteran in her own right, Elizabeth
had taken top honors in the
Elizabethtown Fair’s sheep show
before going on' to be named
supreme champion over all breeds
of livestock.
Twin Valley FFA
Valley placing second. Bunny
Hicks placed second, Mike
Stoltzfus, fourth, Troy Gieringer,
sixth, and Eric Marshall, tenth.
In dairy judging competition
Scott Ritchie placed third in the
junior division contest, Eric
Marshall, fourth, and Troy
Geringer, seventh. The junior
division team placed second, as did
the senior division team.
In senior division dairy judging
Duane Stoltzfus placed second,
Tom Morgan, fourth, Dwight
ITATE
This has been quite a year for 17-
year-old Michelle, as well. The
night before her leadline victory
she was named the Queen of the
Manheim Fair, and last Saturday
she topped the leadline contest at
Keystone International Livestock
Exposition in Harrisburg.
Other placings in the leadline
event were as follows:
Junior Division
2.Diane Musser, Elizabethtown
S.Arlisa Snavely, Lancaster
4.Joelle 8011, Mount Joy S.Carrie
Groff, Elizabethtown B.Lorie 8011,
Mount Joy
Senior Division
2.Lisa Sadler, Elizabethtown S.Deb
Martin, Conestoga 4.Ellen Lewis,
Mount Joy S.Carey Donches,
Manheim fi.Tricia Musser,
Elizabethtown
Stoltzfus, fifth, Rich Slonackdr,
seventh, Bob Bell, eighth, Kim
Brossman, ninth, and John
Keenan, tenth.
The Twin Valley chapter exhibit
“Not all Insects are out to Bug
You” placed first. Individual
student exhibits placed as follows
- Bob Amey, first, Dawn Mc-
Vaugh, second, Tom Morgan,
second, Scott Risbon, third, and
Drew Baldwin, third. Fourth went
to Rich Slonacker, Denny Charron,
and Bob Carlson. Ann Kline,
placed fifth.
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A Hampshire ewe named Elizabeth escorted Andrea Mylin
(left) and her sister Michelle to top honors in the junior and
senior divisions of Manheim’s leadline competition on
Tuesday.
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