814-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, October 12, 1991
First Class Show Of Fashions
And Sheep Modeled At KILE
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LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
In a classy show combining
fashion, modeling, shepherding
ability and yearling ewes, 35 con
testants put on a four-hour display
at Keystone International Live
stock Exposition held in Harris
burg last Saturday.
The contest was divided into
junior, intermediate, and senior
competition. The top three plac
ings in each class went to Kelly
Glaser, junior division; Rachael
Lawrence, intermediate division;
and Gayle Clyde, senior division.
Junior winner Kelly Glaser, 10,
entered the Lead Line contest at
Kile last year, but did not place.
She credits this year’s win to a
better sheep, a better fit of her own
wool outfit, and a smile. She wore
wool plaid knickers, a white turt
leneck under a maroon sweater,
which her grandmother had knit
ted from wool from Kelly’s flock
of sheep. She wore gold hand
made sheep earrings and gold flats
with bows.
Kelly’s Corriedale ewe wore a
maroon wool scarf that Kelly knit
from the same wool as her swea
ter. Kelly said that she has 17 Cor
riedales and is responsible for
their care. She is in the fourth
grade and wants to become a vet.
Second place winner in the
junior division, Laura Clabaugh,
is the daughter of Robert and
Mary Louise Clabaugh of Sabil
lasville, Md. The family raises
Hampshires on their small farm.
Laura made the two-piece suit of
Pendleton wool with pewter sheep
buttons that she modeled. Laura’s
registered Hampshire ewe is from
the Clabaugh’s flock. Laura has
been raising sheep for four years
and has been in 4-H for three. She
helps with the fleeces at the Mary
land lamb and wool festival.
Meagan Hayes, daughter of
Beverly and Daniel Hayes from
Red Lion, helped wash, dye, card,
and spin the wool for her model
ing outfit The Scottish classic
handmade plaid kilt and argyle V
neck vest was from the family’s
Rambouillet wool. The wool was
dyed in blueberry, turquoise, and
magenta colors then woven into
an intricate Fair Isle design. She
wore a white parochial blouse,
blue knee highs, a black leather
English riding shoes. Meg is a
fifth grade student and has 45
Rambouillets, 15 Suffolks and a
pony. She plans to become a vet.
Intermediate winner Rachael
Lawrence said that she usually
places second in the Lead Line
competitions she enters. The
daughter of Richard and Ruth
Lawrence of White Hall, Mary
land, showed a Suffolk ewe
named Splash.
Rachael enjoys using her sew
ing and modeling skills in Lead
Line competitions. She wore a 100
percent Pendleton wool dropped
waist jumper with box pleated
skin It was complemented by a
white long sleeve blouse, gold
jewelry, blue shoes and a match
ing fabric bow tied in her hair and
used as a scarf for Splash.
Rachael is active in 4-H and
FFA. She intends to do something
with animals for the rest of her
life.
Jennifer Weber and her Shrop
shire Lucky placed second in
intermediate competition. The
13-year-old daughter of Paul and
Deborah Weber is from Hydes,
(Turn to Pago BIS)
Gayle Clyde, first place In the senior division, credits her
Cheviot sheep for her Jump from fifth last year to first place
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Lead Line competition at KILE.
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Poised and fashionable are these contestants In the
junior division.
place In the Intermediate
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