810-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9, 1991
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Lebanon County LI’I Miss Dairy Princess Katie Lentz
sings her favorite song that tells about God who makes
dairy cows to make chocolate shakes.
Fiesty and Fluffy get a squeeze from Katie and Dustin.
“Katrina’s tame so I can milk her," Katie said about her favorite cow. She and her
brother like to use Katrina for a sliding board.
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Li’l Miss Dairy Princess
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LEBANON (Lebanon County)
“Drink milk to make your mus
cles strong,” Katie Lentz tells
people.
Although only six years old,
Katie has a job to do. She is the Li’l
Miss Dairy Princess for Lebanon
County.
She wears a crown and a banner
when she works at her job. That
job is to tell others how good milk,
cheese, ice cream, and other dairy
products are to taste. Sometimes
she goes to stores and hands out
samples of cheese or milkshakes.
Sometimes she rides in parades
and waves to the crowd.
Katie said that* her favorite
things to eat are macaroni and
cheese, yogurt, muenster cheese,
milkshakes, and teaberry ice
cream.
Each of her favorite dishes have
milk in them.
“Milk makes my teeth strong,
too,” Katie said.
To become the Li’l Miss Dairy
Princess, Katie had to attend a con
test and answer questions. She
took a poster to the contest. The
poster had cow pictures on it with
her and her brother, Dustin, who
live on a dairy farm with their
parents, Gary and Barbara Lentz.
Katie told the man who inter
viewed her that she wanted to sing
a song for the audience.
Katie sang her favorite song
called God’s Love. She sang, “God
made puppy dogs, and kitty cats.
He made dairy cows, dairy cows,
to make chocolate shakes, and dish
rags to clean the mess we make.”
The audience loved the song.
They clapped and clapped.
The song was written many
years ago by Mauri Macy. It is a
song that Katie’s mother said
changed Katie’s life.
Before Katie learned that song,
she was very shy. She did not like
to talk with strangers or go places
without her parents. But she liked
to sing so she started singing in the
children’s choir at her church.
When the choir director taught the
children the song about God’s
Love, Katie loved it so much. It
reminded her of the things she
loved on her farm puppy dogs,
kitty cats, cows, and milkshakes. *
Soon she wanted to sing it for
other people. When she entered the
Li’l Miss Dairy contest, she knew
the other people would like it too.
“I don’t get nervous when I sing
it,” Katie said.
Now she likes to talk to stran
gers too. Sometimes when Katie
goes with the grownup dairy prin
cesses to places such as a nursing
home, Katie sings her song for the
people.
Katie goes to school and plays at
home like other girls her age. She
is a good helper by watching her
brother when her parents milk the
80 Holsteins they raise on their
Lebanon farm that has 130 acres.
While the parents work in the to*
bam the children sometimes make
a house with the pillows on their
sofa or they watch Sesame Street. v*
But usually they ride their toys
around the bam. Most of all they
like to play with Katrina.
“Katrina is my favorite cow. f
She is very tame,” Katie said. “We V
sit on her back and slide down.” '
Because Katrina is so tame,
Katie likes to hook up the milker to
her. Katrina is actually Katie’s
cousin’s cow. When her cousin
went to college, he asked Katie to
take care of her because he knew
Katie would love Katrina.
Kaue goes to the Fredericksburg Lebanon County U’l Miss
Elementary School in Northern Dairy Princess Katie Lentz
Lebanon School District.
Sunshine encouraged Katie and Dustin play outside on
Monday.
Katie exercises on the gymnastic set in her back yard.
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