824-Umcaster Farming, Saturday, July 1, 1995 NORTH CORNWALL (Leb anon Co.) Three Lebanon County 4-H members were award ed $l,OOO scholarships during a recent meeting of the county’s 4-H Board of Directors. Allison Martin, Lebanon, Amy Tshudy, Annville, and Joyce Wat son, Newmanslown, were the first 4-H members to receive the newly established scholarship. Martha Gregory, County 4-H Extension Agent, said funds for the scholarships came from inter est derived from a county 4-H trust fund. t Gregory said the scholarship winners were chosen based on their 4-H participation, communi ty involvement and academic achievement. She said they also had to complete an application and an essay question regarding their 4-H experience. Allison Martin is the daughter of Gene and Kathy Martin, Leb anon. She will be a sophomore biology and secondary education major at Lebanon Valley College. A member of the NoSoAnn 4-H Dairy Club, Allison owns Hol stein dairy cattle that she shows in the type, fitting and showmanship classes as part of her 4-H project. She is currently president of her 4-H club and a member of the county’s board of directors. -In 1993, she was Lebanon Area Kutztown Folk Festival KUTZTOWN (Berks Co.) From Saturday, July 1. through Sunday, July 9, the annual Kutz town Folk Festival will be held at the same location in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, where it has been held for the past 45 years and everyone in Kutztown is busy pre paring for the event At this sum mer’s 9-day Pennsylvania Dutch celebration, visitors will be trans ported back to life as it was in 19th century Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Food has always been an im portant part of Pennsylvania Dutch life and, at the Kutztown Folk Festival, visitors will find plenty of it. Zion’s United Church of Christ’s Women’s Guild will again present their all-you-can eat, family-style meal and Saint Michael’s Church will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so that visitors may join them any time. For those who want to sam ple everything, eat-as-you-go foods such as ox-roast and sau sage sandwiches. Dutch fries, and funnel cake are plentiful. From 10 a.m., when the Heidel berg Polka Band will kick things off, visitors will find information and entertainment on the stage. Seminars on the Mennonite Peo ple and Life Among the Amish will show visitors the differences between the “Plain and Fancy” Pennsylvania Dutch. The Heidel berg Polka Band, Jakey Budder schnip, and Leroy Heffentrager and his band will provide enter tainment. Programs on quilts and quilting, metal and woodworking. YoUßsei.f o URse i.f Lebanon 4-H’ers Receive Scholarships Fair queen and was a member of the county Dairy Bowl Team. A Cedar Crest High School graduate, she was active with Spe cial Olympics, chorus, the pep club and the track and field team in high school and currently tutors Chem 111 at LVC. She also teaches line dancing at the Lebanon Expo Center. Al though this is her final year as a 4-H member, she said she is look ing forward to being a 4-H leader in the future. Amy Tshudy is the daughter of John and Dianne Tshudy, Ann ville RD 2. She will be a sopho more pre-veterinary science major at Penn State’s main campus. A member of the Hoof & Homs 4-H Horse Club, she is enrolled in both horse performance and pro duction 4-H projects. Currently president of her 4-H Club, she has participated in county, district and state 4-H horse shows. An Annville-Cleona High School graduate, she helped with its therapeutic riding program and was a member of Students Against Drunk Driving and the high school chorus. At Penn State, she belongs to the pre-vet club and plays intra mural volleyball and soccer. Amy said she considers herself a shy person and credits 4-H with helping her to become more out going and taking an assertive role farm and home handicrafts, and stitchery will complete the day and allow visitors to rest in the shade. More than 200 craftsmen, each demonstrating a skill, will take visitors back to a time when all of life’s essentials were made by hand. The iron worker, fraktur art ist, gunsmith, redware potter, weaver, dyer, soap maker, and candle maker recreate the skills and products that brought beauty and function together in the 19th century. Quilts are another example of function and beauty combining to create something special and, at the Kutztown Folk Festival, visi tors will find 1,000 examples of this exciting combination. All the quilts are for sale, but visitors are welcome just to come and look, as the 35 prize-winners remain on display throughout the Folk Festi val’s run. Prize-winners receive more than $5,000 in prize money, but most quilters do it for love of the art rather than prize money. The Kutztown Folk Festival is located in Kutztown, which is halfway between Allentown and Reading, on Route 222 and is open from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. dai ly. Proceeds benefit Ursinus Col lege, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. For more information, call; (610) 683-8707; or write: Kutz town Folk Festival, 461 Vine Lane, Kutztown, PA 19530. The brochure gives lodging informa tion, directions to Kutztown, a map of the Folk Festival Grounds, and schedules of activities and stage programs. From the left, Lebanon County 4-H scholarship recipients are Joyce Watson, Amy Tshudy, and Allison Martin receive recognition from Nancy Hoke, chairperson for the county 4-H Board of Directors. in group discussion. Joyce Watson is the daughter of Jeffrey and Laura-Jean Watson, Newmanstown RD 2. She is a senior who has been home school ed since 10th grade and plans td study communications at Indiana Wesleyan University in the fall Barbara Strawser demonstrates furniture graining. She Is one of 200 persons who will demonstrate 19th Century crafts at the Kutztown Folk Festival on Saturday, July 1-July - 9. The nine-day Pennsylvania Dutch celebration will also feature 1,000 hand-quilted, American-made quilts, 20 dally scheduled activities, stage programs, and lots of delicious Pennsylvania Dutch food. President of the 4-H Busy Bees Community Club, she is enrolled in crafts, clothing and foods and nutrition projects as well as teen leadership. A member of the county 4-H Board of Directors for three years, Joyce has participated in the State . 4 / : / ** *■ t Capital Days and Ambassador programs. In 1993, Watson was named Outstanding Lebanon County 4-H’er. In 1994, she was chosen as one of the state’s Outstanding 4-H’ers and attended the National 4-H Congress in Orlando Fla. I i
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