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Joyce Bnpp
“OK, Mom, where’s it at?”
Not the best grammar perhaps,
but a familiar question in this
household.
The “it” in question is the cash
register printout from my favorite
neighborhood supermarket. While
once these long, slender, strings of
paper bore little more than lists of
obscure price numbers, the institu
tion of bar code reading equipment
sends home with us shoppers a
more detailed record of our shop
ping trip acquisitions. Now, not
only the price, but a description of
each purchase, sometimes even the
brand name, is right there in com
plete digital, dot matrix, printout
glory.
Soon after bar coding
computerization became common
practice at most of our local super
markets, the offspring of the fami
ly found printouts to be invaluable
dues to what goodies might be
somewhere hiding in the
household.
For instance, if the description
“cookies” appeared on the receipt,
an outcry went up to surrender and
turn over the goods to the maraud
ing hunger pangs. It took only a
LEBANON AREA
FwDqys
• 1:00 p.m. - Rabbit &
Cavy Show
• 2:00 p.m. -Mixed
Volleyball
Tournament
• 7:00 p.m.-Vesper
Service - Music By
The Condrans
MONDAY. JULY 27
W r • 8:30 a.m.-4-H&FF A
• * Swine Show
• 3:00 p.m. - Poultry Show
• 3: 30 p.m.- Dairy Goat Show
• 6:30 p.m.-Big Wheel Races (Tractor
Pull Track)
• 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Isshinryu Karate
Show (Pavilion)
• 7:30p.m. -MagicShow (Grandstand)
• 8:00 p.m.- Tug of War (Tractor Pull
Track)
few such instances to teach this
mother to “file” the list - first
thing - before unpacking the car
load of bags.
Undeterred, the offspring took
the lack of a list as yet a greater
challenge. You see, the chief food
gatherer hereabouts had taken to
stashing the most desirable “good
ies” in obscure parts of the kitchen
cupboards. This defense play was
aimed at keeping such preferred
foods around at least until the far
side of the next meal.
Instead, it instituted what might
best be described as a “snacks
scavenge hunt.”
To appease - and throw off
track -- the snack searchers, some
■treat would occasionally be left in
what initially started as a hideout,
but instead became a snack
showcase.
“Ah, ha!,” the tallest would pro
claim, grinning car to ear, as 6 feet
of teenager unfolded from the bot
tom shelf of a cupboard, cookie
pack in hand.
But more secretive spots have
prevailed, and occasionally a pack
of granola bars, or cookies, or bag
of potato chips appears from
SUNDAY. JULY 26
• 9:00 a.m.-4-H Horse
& Pony Show
• 10:00a.m.-Craft Show
• ll:00a.m.-2:00p.m.
Ham Bar-B-Q $4.50
18:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. -
Enter All Indoor
Exhibits
nowhere - to their dismay and irri
tation that they missed a hiding
spot.
This evasiveness has heated up
at about the same pace as the temp
eratures, as I strive to keep field
food on hand, items on which they
can munch along with sandwiches,
fruit and lemonade. Fact is, when
they have something to nibble on
between meals, while spending
long hours in the fields, I worry
less. It keeps their energy levels
high and gives ‘em something to
do to alleviate hay mowing
monotony.
But, I by to hit the supermarket
a minimum of every other week.
ADAMSTOWN—Your favo
rite pork recipe may be worth
money! The third annual Pennsyl
vania Pork Fest Recipe Contest
features cash prizes and pork pro
duct awards valued at more than
$750.
The contest will be held Aug. 15
at the Bavarian Summer Festival at
Ed Stoudt’s Black Angus Restaur
ant in Adamstown, Lancaster
County. All entries must be sub
mitted by July 27.
The top prize winner will
receive $125, dinner for two at Ed
Stoudt’s Black Angus Restaurant
and $3O of Pennsylvania pork pro
ducts. Second through tenth place
winners will receive a total of $2OO
pork product awards. Cash awards
are as follows: second, $100; third,
$75; fourth, $5O; fifth, $25; and
sixth through tenth, $l5 each.
Finalists will also be reimbursed
partial travel expenses.
The pork product sponsors
supplying a variety of hams, pork
hot dogs, bologna, and bacon
fULY 26 - AUGUST 1
2 Miles South of
Lebanon Plaza -
Cornwall and Evergreen Roads
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
TUESDAY. JULY 28
• 9:00a.m.-4-H&FFA
Dairy Type Show
• 3:00 p.m.-Senior
fl’ \ Citizen Bingo (Pavilion)
* • 6:00 p.m.-Dog
Obedience & Pet Show
(Horse Ring)
• 7:00 p.m. - Colored
Breed Dairy Show
(Jr. & Open) V A
• 7:30 p.m. -Battle of A
the Bands
(Grandstand) XtT JT
• 7; 30 p.m.-“Sound of
Renown” (Pavilion)
WEDNESDAY.
JULY 29
■■ • 9:00 a.m.-4-H&FF A
PP Livestock & Dairy Fitting
f Contest I FRIDAY.
• 2:30 p.m. - Beef Show JULY 31
5;30p.m.-SheepShow . 9:00a.m.-Open
• 6:30 p.m. Beef Blocking Contest Dairy Show, 4-H
• 7:00 p.m.- Country Tractor & Demonstration
4WDPulll Contest & Tractor
Pull- $2.50 Driving Contest
• 7;30p.m. • 6:30p.m.-Livestock Sale in
foot Treadl Green Bam
(spinning/ • 8:00p.m.-Square Dance in
weaving) Pavilion - Floyd Feik
• 7:3op.mA • 8:30 p.m.-Just Say No Concert,
by the Couni Julie Parker (Grandstand)
Politicos
necessitating a hefty stash of field
food brought into the house each ■
time during the heavy weeks of
planting and harvest.
“Where’s it at, Mom?” he’ll ask,
starting a cupboard by cupboard,
shelf by shelf search. Before it
ends, spots from the no-man’s land
under the kitchen sink, to ice
cream bar prone comers of the
freezer will have been checked
out.
Such diligence occasionally
pays off big time. Once, he
unearthed part of a bag of candy
bars in the dish towel drawer.
Those misplaced treasures traced
back to wrestling practice days,
Pork Fest Recipe Contest Deadline Nears
include: Alderfer Bologna Com- practicality, ease of preparation,
pany, Berks Packing Company, and low calories.
Hatfield Packing Company, Kess- 1116 Pork Fest Recipe Contest is
lers, Inc., Kunzler and Company, , sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Inc., Leidy’s Inc., and Daniel Pork Producer’s Council in coop-
Weaver’s Company. eration with the Pennsylvania
Af Pennsylvania residents who Department of Agriculture, Ed
are not professional food preparers Stoudt’s Black Angus Restaurant
may enter. Recipes serving four, and Bavarian Summer Festival,
that are specific and original, will For a complete set of Pork Fest
be judged. The top ten finalists will Recipe Contest rules, write to:
bring their prepared recipes to the PORK FEST, Room 303,2301 N.
Bavarian Summer Festival, to be Cameron Street, Hamburg, PA
judged by a panel of three judges 17110, or telephone:
on originality, appearance, taste, 717-787-5086.
THURSDAY. JULY
* • FREE ADMISSION &
PARKING
• 9:00 a.m. - Horticulture
Judging Contest
• 12:00 p.m. - Farmer’s
Tailgate Market
• 2:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Chicken B-B-Q -
$4.50
• 6:30 p.m.-Sheep
Blocking Contest
• 7:00 p.m.-County
Lawn & Garden *
Tractor Pull - $l.OO
• 7:30 p.m. -4-H
Auction
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Ju|y 18, 1987-B5
ON THE GROW
1987
when the chocolate was a handy
pre-practice, energy booster.
But the continuing pressure to
find creative and effective snack
hiding spots is beginning to take its
toll. On a recent Sunday, I went to
a cupboard for a stashed bag of
chips to round out a picnic lunch,
only to find - like Mother Hub
bard - that the cupboard was bare.
At least bare of potato chips.
Fifteen mind-bending minutes
later, I triumphantly yanked the
crackly bag from where I had hid
den it in a new spot, promptly
forgotten.
“OK, Mom, where’s it at?”
Doggoned if I know.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 1
• 7:00a.m. -FleaMarket
• 11:00 a.m. - 3-Wheel Drag Races
at track -$5.00
• 1:00 p.m. - BMX Bike Races at
Bike Track
• 7:30 p.m. - Demolition Derby -
Followed by Fireworks - $3.00
• 9:00 p.m. - Release Indoor
Exhibits "s.
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