Btt-Umcaster Fanning, Saturday, August 4 1990 JUDY PATTON Centre Co. Correspondent SELINSGROVE (Snyder Co.) Culminating Dairy Week at the Susquehanna Valley Mall in Sclinsgrovc was the June 23rd crowning of the new SUN Area Dairy Princess Shawn Hoffman. Raised on a dairy farm which has 150 Holstcms, Shawn does daily bam chores and shows cows m 4-H. She is a student at Middle burg High School in Snyder County, where she is in chorus, student council, and S.A.D.D. Her hobbies arc playing the piano, vol leyball, jogging, swimming, and bowling. She is the daughter of Sidney and Susan Hoffman. Alternate Dairy Princess for 1990-91 is Kelly Joan Reich. She was also selected Miss Congenial ity by the other princess candi dates. Also from Snyder County, Kelly is a graduate of West Snyder High School. Her parents, Gerald and Linda Reich, have 80 Hols tems on the family dairy farm. Kelly plays trumpet, piano, and accordion, and she hopes to become a florist. 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The judges this year were Jane Marhefka, a retired home economics extension agent from Mifflintown; Donald Cook, a dairy farmer from Drums and a member of the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Board; and Judy Patton, a correspondent for Lan caster Farming from Centre County. 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She Is flanked by Michelle Dugan, left, of Montour County; Franclne Martz, second from right, Northumber land County; and Alternate Kelly Reich, right, Snyder County. supported by several contributors. Janet Reynolds was the pageant chairman for the SUN Area Dairy Promotion Board, which includes representatives from Snyder, Union, Northumberland, and Montour counties. A 120-gallon ice cream sundae put together by Turkey Hill Dairy at the Susquehanna Valley Mall the night before the pageant was distributed to shoppers by the dairy princess candidates and B RE-NEW”KIT B New vented auger gear box includes new features such as three bolt flange design and easy fill piping New flex line shaft connection is also shown 1989-90 Dairy Princess Jody Klinger. A petting zoo with dairy heifers, exhibits in the mall, and a huge cow in the parking lot also highlighted June dairy month. 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