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Through the Friendship Force, a group of poultry ambassadors from Russia stayed
with local families who had visited Russia last year. The group is shown here with host
family members that Included Frank and Ellen Baber, Lancaster; Alan and Sally Bair,
Columbia; Harold and Ruby Esbenshade, Manhelm; Mel and Ann Gehman, AnnvlHe;
Dick and Linda Peacock, Lancaster; Paul and Karen Wolgemuth, Elizabethtown; and
Robert and Regina Zimmerman, Relnholds.
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
REAMSTOWN (Lancaster Co.)
—For the final lOdaysof April, 13
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examined the area’s poultry indus
try. It was a reciprocal visit for the
Russians, who stayed in host fami
lys* homes and absorbed American
culture while studying the intrica-
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cies of successful poultry
operations.
The group, traveling under the
auspices of the Friendship Force,
expressed fervent praise of the
poultry farms and industries that
they toured.
According to Yuri Solomin,
deputy director of a large poultry
farm in Russia, the poultry opera
is in the county are not similar
those in Russia, where large
ite farms are operated.
He foresees that the state hums
ill continue in his country
use it is too difficult to break
sm into smaller farms. But the
issian's hope to see smaller
imily-run farms being built.
The ambassadors were inter
in learning how family-run
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Solomin was especially
intriqued with visiting Shady Brae
Farms, operated by his host family,
Harold and Ruby Esbenshade of
Manheim. The large poultry com
plex offered Solomin ideas that
could be applied to those in Russia.
A lot of cammeradie was evident
between the visitors and their host
families as they discussed the lifes
tyles of Americans.
“The way American people live
is more than I expected. It seems
the right pace,” said Maya Dons
kikh, chief personnel. “I liked the
land, enjoy the standard of living,
and all the people they are
friendly and hospitable.”
The enviromental side did not go
unnoticed. “I admire the way the
people treat the land, their houses,
and their heritage,” said Eugeni
Artemyev, chief engineer. He stay
ed with Alan and Sally Bair of Col
umbia. He mentioned that he was
impressed that children are taught
to be independent from their early
years.
The visitors vehemently shook
their heads in agreement with this
observation. In Russia, they said,
the children never leave. They
almost always stay living with their
parents because of their country’s
housing shortages.
It was the third time that Galina
Gorislavskaya spent time with
Robert and Regina Zimmerman,
broiler producers in Reinholds.
“We are very close, like family,”
she said.
The Zimmermans had accom
panied the poultry to exchange to
Russia last year and stayed in the
Gorislavskaya home. Later, the
Zimmermans went with the
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to give medical supplies and equip
ment to Russian children’s orphan
ages. When Galina heard about it.
she insisted the Zimmermans stay
in her home again.
The visitors accompanied their
host families Unchurch services on
Sunday. Ulyana Trusova, an
accountant, said that she accom
panied Paul and Karen Wolgemuth
of Elizabethtown to a local Mcnno
nite church.
‘They keep a belief that makes
(he people more in community and
closer to each other,” she said.
The visitors said that although
they came to see the poultry indus
try, they did not consider that the
most important benefit of the visit
“The poultry industry is every
where it’s the friendships with
Americans that is the most impor
tant part of our visit,” said Vladi
mir Stepantsov, deputy director.
He and his wife Vera stayed with
Mel and Ann Gehman of Annville.
Vera said the she observed that
American housewives do not have
as much to do in the kitchen as Rus
sian housewives.
“Americans have dishwashers,
microwaves, and many appliances
to do the work for them, TTicy can
buy meals ready to cook we
don’t have that,” she said.
Many of the foods were unusual
to the Russians, who said that they
liked it all, especially the tapioca
pudding, someone remarked.
Stepantsov said that his people
felt that their host families have
given them food that is “too much
and too tasty.”
The host families said that they
were only trying to feed them as
much as they had been fed when
they had visited their homes.
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