(Continued from Pag* A2O) promotional activities. Board The meeting will feature the an- winner as well as several finalists Reservations for the meeting
note address. He will discuss the Treasurer Robert Gehman, from nouncement of the 1993 “Promot- for the award. Each year, out- and buffet luncheon are required,
board’s activities and explain how Coopersburg, will offer an over- erofthe Year.” Promotions’Com- standing volunteer dairy promot- Interested persons should contact
representatives of dairy fanners view of Pennsylvania Dairy’s fi- mittee Chairman Harold Shaulis, ers are nominated and considered Jennifer Dobyns, at Pennsylvania
effectively and efficiently plan nancial statements. from Somerset, is to recognize the for this prestigious award. Dairy (717) 787-6903.
Tree Growers To Honor Family
HALIFAX (Dauphin Co.) The John Hom
mer'Family, originally from Glasgow, Cambria
County, will be honored for more than 50 years of
work on behalf of the Christmas tree industry in
the commonwealth, at the Pennsylvania Christ
mas Tree Growers Association’s (PCTGA) annu
al meeting January 14, in Carlisle.
The award will be presented by Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture Boyd E. Wolff and offic
ers of the grower’s association. Mrs. John (Gene
vieve) Hommer, New Cumberland, will accept
the award on behalf of the family.
The Hommer family joined the association in
1954 as one of the first members in the then
“infant” association which had been formed a few
years before. The Hommer’s lumber business in
Glasgow, Pa., Cambria County, had already been
going strong since 1864 when J.H. Hommer pur
chased 1,000 acres of timber.
The Hommer Family continued the lumber
business throughout several family generations
and in 1992 planted their first Christmas trees.
The first Christmas trees were sold in 1930. At
the peak of their Christmas tree business, the fam
ily had 10 farms with mdte than one million
Christmas trees planted.
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John Hommer (deceased) was elected to the
association’s board of directors in 1964 and
served two three-year terms on the board. Along
with his work for the Pennsylvania Christmas
Tree Growers. Hommer served as chairman of the
Agricultural Advisory Committee and the Pen
nsylvania State Council of Farm Organizations.
“In the family’s early years of growing Christ
mas trees, they perfected through trial and
error and much diligent work the art of grow
ing pines and other varieties for Pennsylvania
conditions and helped bring the Christmas tree
industry to its high standard of quality,” accord
ing to Melissa Nelson, PCTGA executive
secretary.
Throughout the 1950 s to the present, the fami
ly demonstrated how to grow trees on reclaimed
coal mine areas and how to fertilize Christmas
tree varieties for best growth, said Nelson.
The family shared the “how-tos” of Christmas
tree growing with many other growers from
across the state and helped make Pennsylvania
one of the leading producers of top quality trees
in the nation. The family hosted the PCTGA sum
mer meeting in 1973 and attended many National
Christmas Tree Association meetings.
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