FFA “Meating” Out Rewards
BY LISA RISSGR
WILLOW STREET (Lancas- see a few during the hunting sea
tcr) While most people seeking son, Brian Weldy has seen enough
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to be cured. Brian stuffs bologna, sausage, and pepper
sticks and cures hams, bacon, and bologna.
THE CHECKERBOARD OF
HESS MILLS
6 S. Vintage Rd.
Paradise, PA 17562
(717)442-4183
(717)768-3301
deer consider themselves lucky to
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deer in the past two weeks to last a
lifetime.
Of course the difference for
Weldy is that the deer he sees are
the carcasses brought to the butch
er shop where he works.
Weldy, a junior at Lampeter-
Strasburg High School, has work
ed at Hess’s Butcher Shop for
about four years and has made his
job there an FFA project.
It all began when “one summer I
didn’t have much to do (around
home), so I came around the shop
and they gave me odds and ends to
do,” explained Weldy, the son of
Shirley and John Singleton. That
led to a clean-up job, which he did
for three years.
Now Weldy can cut meat, hang
meat in the smokehouse, cure ham,
bacon, and bologna, and stuff
bologna, sausage, and pepper
sticks. He works on hog, steer,
deer, and bear carcasses.
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“I like boning meat best,” Wcl
dy related. Boning meat involves
readying it for hamburger or put
ting it into a product such as bolog
na. “Boning meat takes skill; you
have to learn where each bone is
located and how to take the meat
off of it.”
“Brian’s a management
oriented worker,” said his boss
Lloyd Hess, co-owner of the shop.
“You put him on a job and he
doesn’t have to be watched.”
Because his butchering serves
as an FFA project, Wcldy must
record the hours he works and
what he does each day in a project
book. In addition, he must note the
money he receives.
Last year Weldy’s project book
won him second-place honors in eighth grader. “We had clubs to
the school contest. This year he choose from that met on Tuesdays
hopes to earn the top spot. and Thursdays during the last per-
During busy times, such as deer iod of the day,” he explained. “I
season, Weldy uses farm days— wanted to see what junior FFA was
days the school allows FFA slu- like, so I joined it. I learned a lot of
dents to work on their projects in stuff after I got in, so I joined the
place of school attendance. high school chapter.”
Weldy, who doesn’t live on a Weldy is active in the Garden
farm or have a farm background, Spot FFA chapter and has been
became interested in FFA as an (Turn to Pago A 25)
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Decamber 10, 1988-Al9
Using a sllcer, Brian cuts deer steaks.