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Vol. 41 No. 33
Teen Challenge Helps Addicts Turn Their Lives Around
Strawberries were planted for the first time two years ago at Teen Challenge. This
year, four acres of strawberries formed the backbone of a lot of early morning work for
about 90 at the center, from left? Ralph Chapin, building, grounds, and vocational
administrator; Eric Hole, famrtvianager; and Art Gibson, assistant farm manager.
ADC, Dairy Partnership Network Use Bay Trip To Discuss Strategy
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
ANNAPOLIS, Md. The
Cheasapeake Bay Foundation’s
educational oysterboat, a 1902-era
skipjack sailboat called the Stanley
Norman, is moored at City Dock in
Annapolis, Md., just off of the
intersection of Compromise and
Main streets.
Dairy Knowledge, Eye For Cattle Marketing
At Cornerstone Of Farm’s Success
JOANNE E. MORVAY
Maryland Correspondent
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
In a 10-stall, Virginia-style flat
bam that’s as clean as the show
rings they’re used to working in.
Dale and Deanna Bendig are build
ing their future. While other
producers opt out of the dairy busi
ness and the small, family farm
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It set sail Tuesday with a manif
est that included members of the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
(CBF), Pennsylvania State Uni
versity Extension personnel, the
Rodale Institute, the Pennsylvania
Association for Sustainable Agri
culture (PASA), the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Pro
tection (DEP), the U.S. Environ-
appears to many to be a slowly
dying tradition, the Bendigs are
creating an operation that has at its
loundation the hard work and man
agement practices that have made
dairy (arming one of the nations’s
oldest and best-loved professions.
Both third-generation farmers
who couldn’t imagine doing any
thing else, the couple is hoping that
their mix of labor and knowledge
along with a keen eye for cattle
marketing will allow their farm
to survive.
Their basic tenet is a simple one:
“The cows come first, because
they’re the ones that gotta pay the
bills,” Dale explained.
A friendly man with a shock of
curly brown hair who’s always
ready with a joke even when it
means laughing at himself—Dale
said he enjoys the challenge of
“making that little milk check pay
for a big box of bills every month.”
Even more satisfying is “taking a
cow and making her better,” he
said.
Deanna’s love of dairying is
similar, but her interest is moti
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 22, 1996
mental Protection Agency (EPA),
staff and board members of die
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative,
USDA Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education Program,
a representative of the aritificial
insemination industry, and a rep
resentative of the USDA Natural
Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS).
vatcd at its heart by a love of cows
and other animals.
“It’s in your blood,” she
explained. “If you get out of it,
most of the time you go back. And
I’vc been working in the bam since
I was wee little.” Married for just
three years, the couple met show
ing cattle. The six years between
their ages made a difference then
since Deanna, as a teenager, had no
interest in going anywhere with
Dale, who kept asking her out after
shows.
Comfortable in the show ring
since his earliest days in 4-H, Dale
was 21 when he started fitting and
showing professionally for other
cattlemen. Lured by the travel,
independence and of course
the fun, he spent nearly eight years
on the Show circuit going from
slate convention to state conven
tion and working the myriad sales
and nationalxxpos between. Dean
na was 21 before she finally gave
in to one of Dale’s endless dinner'
invitations. When it looked like
there was more to him than she
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ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
REHRERSBURG (Berks Co.)
—Kevin Clancy realized long ago
that to survive he needed to make
drastic changes in his life.
Early in 1987, Clancy, in his late
twenties, was living in Upper Dar
by, married with three kids. He
was a drug addict, he admitted,
was very violent and full of pride
and selfishness.
With the constant support of his
wife Donna, Clancy served a few
months in a Germantown induc
tion center for troubled youth.
After the induction center, Clan
cy came to Teen Challenge in
March 1987. But after having
adjusted to the stringent work ethic
imposed on all who are registered
at the Teen Challenge Training
Center, after having survived a
rigorous program that brought him
to the rank of an intern . . , Clancy
found himself demoted because he
broke a rule. Instead of going to a
seminar, as he was ordered, he
went to a graduation.
After the demotion, Clancy
remembered walking back from
the dairy farm, wanting to quit the
Teen Challenge pro’grtlh
altogether. But as he admitted.
The purpose of the trip was two
fold, but the tenor of the day trip
was perhaps best reflected by the
crossroads at City Dock an
intersection of compromise and
“main street” thinking.
The primary reason for the trip
on the Stanley Norman was to
demonstrate and educate about the
bay and the effects of sedimenta
As a member of the National 4-H Sheep Judging Team,
Lisa Relff captured the attention'of a Midwestern college
well known fdr its livestock Judging team. The college
recruited Lisa and awarded her a full scholarship. To read
more about Lisa and the scholarship, considered the first
offered to a Pennsylvanian, turn to page 818 for article and
pictures by Lou Ann Good.
Four Sections
while standing in a Held, “God
grabbed a hold of me and told me
my entire life is centered on this
time. Would I submit to the discip
linary action and be a man, or con
tinue to be a baby and quit the
program?”
Clancy said, ‘ ‘I chose what God
wanted me to do.”
As a result, he went back on a
track that would eventually lead to
him graduating from the Teen
Challenge Training Center prog
ram in 1988 and back on the track
of a positive lifestyle. He worked
for three different dairy farms in
Lebanon County, in training to be
a herds manager. But, while work
ing part-time on youth ministry
programs, it wasn’t long before
Clancy was asked to be full-time
associate director of inner-city
ministries at the Lebanon Valley
Youth For Christ.
Clancy now works with about
300 elementary school students as
part of the inner-city missions with
the multidenominational program
to keep kids from drugs and alco
hol. He speaks openly about the
challenges he faced.
Clancy said that he “tells it like
■ft is” and is very blunt about
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lion, nullification, massive resi
dential and industrial develop
ment, forest and stream buffer
removal and minimal or non
concern with earthmoving activi
ties, and the loss of practically all
ot the filter feeding oysters.
The second reason for the trip
was to present a concept proposal
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