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Dairy Fun Night
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Pennsylvania’s dairy industry
was in the spotlight at the PA
Farm Show’s “Dairy Fun Night,”
held Tuesday evening.
Crowds stormed the small arena
of the Farm Show Complex to wit
ness a variety of interesting activi
ties from ice cream taking to cow
pie dodging. The events were an
amusing tribute to the common
wealth’s number one agricultural
industry.
Ice cream chunters opened the
evening by creating their own
homemade ice cream. Contest
judges Phiuli Keeney Jr., from
Hershey Creamery, and Tim
Bums and Sue Campbell from
WNNK-FM, Harrisburg, sampled
the recipes and selected three.
Elsie Smith, from Roaring Spring,
Blair County, retained her title,
winning first place and $3OO for
her “Rocky Road” ice cream. For
mer champions Jim and Faye Rei
singer from Loysville, Perry
County, and John Hess, from
Manheim, Lancaster County,
received second, $l5O, and third
Contestants do highstepping, clean-stepping and
quickstepping to avoid cow patties during a portion of the
Farm Show Dairy Fun Night Obstacle Course.
Vernon and Ben Schriver are interviewed by a news crew from Channel 27 while
they make their homemade Ice cream, a wintergreen flavor.
place, $125, respectively.
The “Dairy Obstacle Contest”
followed with teams stacking
bales, dodging cow-pies, and bot
tling fresh milk in a timed compet
ition that pitted strength against
dexterity.
Eight hay bales had to be neatly
stacked in a short period of time,
while “pudding-like” cow-pies
demanded skipping skill to miss
the sticky mixtures.
The milk bottling required skill
and patience in pouring milk from
a large milk can into small bottles.
Judges Peggy Wolff, wife of
Secretary of Agriculture Boyd
Wolff, and Amy Mearkle and
Marci Hamish, the state’s alter
nate dairy princess selected the
winners.
A team from Greenwood FFA,
composed of Matt Byers. Chris
Seiber, and Tara Kerr, took the top
prize of $75 in the 13-19 age divi
sion of the obstacle contest The
second place team, Armstrong
4-H comprised, of Matt Ewing,
Ben McDivitt, and John Walker,
took home a $5O cash prize. In the
Brings Farm Show Del r ‘
From the left, state Rep. Arthur Hershey. Rep. Ed Krebbs, and Rep. John Gordner
contemplate the question posed in a Dairy Fun Night game-show styled contest, while
Rep. Paul Semmel attempts to answer game host Chris Fickes.
19 plus category, the Armstrong
4-H leaders - Jeff Burke, Mark
Ewing, and Diane Ewing had the
quickest time, while the Rader
team- Harold Rader Jr„ John
Kennedy, and Barabra Rader from
Connoquenessing, Butler County
- took the second prize.
While the “Obstacle Contest”
continued, Chris Fickes, the even
ing’s Master of Ceremonies,
announced that “it was time to
play the feud,” “Dairy Feud” that
is.
This was an event that required
knowledge of the dairy industry
and dairy products. Questions
were based upon responses given
by 100 people - dairy farmers or
consumers. State Rep. Bill Lloyd,
from Somerset County, and his
team - Rep. Daniel Surra, Rep.
Ruth Rudy, and Pat Carone, won
the “Feud” and the bonus award.
They competed against a team
captained by Rep. Arthur Her
shey. Hershey’s team included
Rep. John Gordner, from Colum
bia County, Rep. Edward Krebs,
and Rep. Paul Semmel.
Jennifer Grimes, the state Dairy
Princess and the “Fun Night’s”
Mistress of Ceremonies, followed
this event with the “Milk Musta
che Contest.”
Over 15 youngsters entered the
arena to participate in this special
activity. Each took a glass of milk
and created their best milk musta
che. Patrick Jenkins, from Hum
melstown, was the selected win
ner by judges Tod Jeffers and
Nancy Ryan form WWKL-FM,
Harrisburg. Jerica Fetzer, from
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A contestant attempt to fill small bottles with milk from a
milk can in a specified time, while a cameraman from News
Channel 8, gets a closer look.
El«i» Smith It tht returning winntr of the homemade ice
cream making contest at the state Farm Show Dairy Fun
Night. She aleo won this pest year at Ag Progress Days. Her
mother never wrote down a recipe, but said to use one
tableepoon of oomstarch and one egg per quart of ice
cream. Smith said.