Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess Coronation
(Continued from Page B 12)
bestowed by the other county dairy
princesses in the pageant.
The final seven in the running
included: Bonzo; Balthaser; Ster
ner; Eisenhart; Tara Jo Harrington,
Warren County Dairy Princess;
Christine Davidson, Cumberland
County Dairy Princess; and Tanya
O’Brien, Somerset County Dairy
Princess.
Jenny Sue Bigelow, the 1988
Blair County Dairy Princess,
received the Tina M. Shultz
Award. This memorial award has
been set up in memory of the
1985-1986 Huntingdon County
Dairy Princess who served her
county dairy industry while in a
losing battle with cancer, Bigelow
traveled 7,200 miles during her
reign attending 206 schools, 28
malls and supermarkets, published
A new title for the
princess.
is’> ./ania Royalty crowned at the PA Dairy Princess Pagent. Left to right;
Tammy Sue Balthaser, Berks, first runner-up; Kimberly Bonzo, Beaver-Lawrence, PA
Dairy Princess and Laurie Steiner, Montgomery, second runner-up.
50 news articles, appeared on 46
radio and TV shows, and was
involved in SI special events dur
ing the year. Patricia Dunkleber
ger, 1988 Cumberland County
Dairy Princess, received v honor
able mention.
Harrington, Davidson and
O’Brien were selected to give their
presentations at the pageant. Tara
impersonated Santa Claus and
filled all the family stockings with
dairy products. Christine’s fairy
god cow turned everything right
for promoting dairy products. And
Tanya coached her Real Seal
basketball team into slam-dunking
points for dairy products.
The new dairy princess and Pen
ny Dale Puskarich, Washington/
Greene County Dairy Princess,
were named runner-ups in the pre
sentation awards.
Opening scene at the dairy princess coronation.
Lancaster’s Julie Greider, and
Bradford’s Terri Packard, won the
scrapbook awards. Berks’ Balthas
er, Mifflin’s Jaylene Yoder, and
Wyoming/Lackawanna’s Patty
Spadine, won honorable mention
with their scrapbooks.
Grover Gouker served as Master
of Ceremonies. Steven Crawford,
executive assistant to the Ag Sec
retary, brought greetings from the
Department of Agriculture.
Judges for the pageant were Dr.
Lee Majeski, College Park, Mary
land, chairman; Mrs. Lynn Bullen,
Middleton, Delaware; Lowell
Lindsy, Guelph, Ontario; and Mrs.
Julia Reppard, Holcomb, New
York. Ms. Trish Williams, Tow
son, Maryland; and Everett News
wanger, Lancaster, served as
scrapbook judges.
Mother gets a new
daughter.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 1, 1988-813
Royalty. Left to right: Janice Garber, National Guernsey
Queen; Deanna Demmln, New York dairy princess and Heidi
Bossasard, alternate New York dairy princess.
Annual Disaster
Relief Auction
Raises $240,000
HARRISBURG (Dauphin)
More than $240,000 was raised for
disaster relief victims around the
world through the 12th Annual
Brethren Disaster Relief Auction
held at the Lebanon County Fair
grounds on September 23 and 24.
The annual event, sponsored by
112 Church of the Brethren con
gregation in the Atlantic Northeast
and Southern Pennsylvania Dis
tricts, featured an auction of 68
head of cattle on Friday evening
which sold for over $58,000.
Over 8,500 people from 15
states attended the activities on
Saturday. Five auctions were con
ducted simultaneously on the Fair
grounds. A total of 106 quilts were
sold ranging in price from $350 to
$4,000. In attendance was 99-year
old Lizzie Longeneckcr of Man
heim who quilted an around-the
world quilt for the Auction which
sold for $1,700.
Among the other items auc
tioned were an Abner Zook three
Kimberly says hello
dimensional wooden painting,
$8,500; a Lorraine Reiff three
dimensional wood painting,
$2,200; a miniature Hershey toy
trolley, $2,000; a miniature gaso
line engine, $4,000; an antique set
of furniture donated by Mary
Grace Martin, $300; a miniature
doll house by Ben Brubaker,
$1,100; and several paintings by
local artists.
A total of 67 craft vendors dis
played and sold their items to ben
efit the auction as well as food
sales of 1,200 homemade pics, 400
loaves of bread, 60 bushels of
string beans and many other food
items.
The Auction is only one part of
the disaster response network of
the Church of die Brethren which
sends not only financial assistance
to disaster areas world-wide but
volunteer laborers to help with
rebuilding and construction, child
care and medical assistance.