Jill Harnish
(Continued from Pago B 2)
Last year, she was assigned to
draw a self portrait She did a pen
cil drawing of herself as a veterina
rin featured on Time magazine as
Woman of the Year.
Since then, her dream to become
a vet has declined. The deciding
factor was the day she fainted
while watching a vet perform a
twisted stomach operation.
Jill has the distinction of begin
ning a newspaper before she
entered kindergarten. The paper,
called Nine Points News, began
when the family’s veterinarian
handed the carbon papers to Jill
when making a call.
Although Jill could not write,
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she asked her sister to write down
stories that she told her about fami
ly and neighbors. '
The neighbors enjoyed reading
Jill’s newspaper and soon she got
subscriptions from not only neigh
bors but from those at a distance.
The paper, published sporadically,
contains exaggerated articles such
as die one about a local township
official who attempted suicide
while on a family vacation, a
Brownie Bake-Off contest, direc
tions to make Christmas cards, a
dating service, ads, and other “hot”
community news.
Recendy, Jill started to breed
Border Collies. She is amazed at
the intelligence shown by Border
Collies, which are used to bring the
cows from the meadow and to herd
sheep.
In between helping on the farm,
Jill works 15 hours weekly for a
local hardware store.
Jill teaches a two-year-old Sun
day school class at Bart Mennonite
Church where she is also a member
of the youth group.
In addition to having 12 cows of
her own, Jill raises seven Suffolk
market lambs, three pigs, and one
steer.
Mother’s Duties
Arlene keeps the books on the
farm. Known as the creative idea
person, Arlene has turned a wash
house into her craft room where
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she dries flowers, weaves on a
loom, weaves baskets, and makes
crafts to sell at Christmas. She
spends hours in her flower garden
nurturing perennials and herbs and
does the yard work.
Arlene serves as a Republican
committeewoman, is a member of
Farm Women Society IS, and
helps on the farm. She has been a
4-H leader. Girl Scout leader, and
Sunday School teacher.
Ed is taking a year off from
community duties, but he had been
township supervisor for six years,
served on the Solanco Advisory
Board, was a previous president of
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 11,1992-B3
Ed’s Philosophies
IN THE
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the Solanco Young Farmers, and
this year was named Conservation
Cooperative Farmer of the Year.
While Ed still considers farming
his hobby, he said, “It’s only
enjoyable as long as we are making
a decent living. Farming isn’t as
profitable as it used to be. I used to
have money to buy toys now I
can’t.”
Ed believes that the economy
will force those who don’t enjoy
farming to get out. He said, “Dairy
farming is too much work and too
dirty work for a guy who isn’t
making money to stay in it. He
isn’t going to get up early seven
days a week and get manure on
him if he doesn’t like cows.”