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VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
NORTH CORNWALL (Leba
non Co.) Nelson Ebersole is
probably more widely known in his
Lebanon County community for
his Annville-based real estate and
auctioneering businesses.
What many may not know is that
he also has had a life-long interest
in Holsteins and currently has a
farm with about 30 registered
Holsteins.
Bradley Hoover holds the halter of his prize 4-H chain calf
while sponsors Elsie and Nelson Ebersole, of Ebersole
Auctioneering and Suburban Realty, present it to Hoover.
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Wins 4-H Chain Calf
On Tuesday, in conjunction with
the Lebanon Area Fair youth dairy
day activities! on behalf of his two
businesses he presented a regis
tered Holstein to the winning youth
of an essay contest Ebersole made
possible.
Judged by an independent com
mittee, the contest was set up by
Ebersole to create an opportunity
like the one he benefitted from as a
youth.
He said he wanted to return the
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favor. See, when he was young, he
won a similar contest
He said that when he was 12, he
worked all summer on an uncle’s
farm milking cows, baling hay,
hauling manure, etc., and with the
money earned, bought a Holstein
calf and enough feed for the calf.
That calf died.
Distraught but not discouraged,
he entered an essay contest for a
chain calf that was offered by the
Northern Lebanon FFA chapter.
A chain calf contest is one in
which the recipient of the chain
calf raises that calf, breeds it back
and then donates the first heifer
calf back in order to hold another
contest and continue to provide
the opportunity to own and breed
cattle.
If no heifers are bom, the bull
calves are sold and the money used
to purchase a heifer to be offered as
a contest calf.
The gift keeps on giving.
Speakers
WESTMINSTER. Md. Car
roll County recently held its annu
al 4-H public speaking contest.
A total of 112 4-H members
presented 160 speeches at the Ag
Center in Westminster.
4-H speakers received top hon
ors at the Carroll County 4-H
Public Speaking Contest in the
senior division (members ages
14-18). They are Rebecca Dowls
ley, champion radio address; Lau
ra Gibson, champion prepared
speech and radio address; Tamyra
Robrecht, champion prepared and
extemporaneous speeches; Rachel
Dyky, reserve champion prepared
speech; and Amy Davidson,
reserve champion, extempora-
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Ebersole said he contributed the
calf Tuesday because, “I wanted to
give back something to the com
munity because of how good the
Lord has been to me and I hope it
will start somebody else in the
Holstein business.”
In his own case, Ebersole won
the Northern Lebanon FFA essay
contest and the calf was an Osbom
dale Ivaphoe daughter, which
Holstein breeders know turned out
to be an excellent pedigree.
“And that’s how I got interested
in Holsteins,” he said.
After high school he worked for
Atlantic Breeders Cooperative as
an artificial insemination techni
cian and serviced more than 25,000
cows. Later his auctioneering busi
ness grew, as well as his Suburban
Realty business, both located along
Main Street in Annville.
He approached Lebanon 4-H
leaders about his plan for a contest
calf and with a go-ahead, he pur-
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neous. Reserve champions were
Jessica Fritz and Amy Petkovsek.
In the Intermediate Division,
4-H’ers ages 11-13, who partici
pated in the Carroll County 4-H
Public Speaking Contest and
received the highest awards are
Danielle Wilmsen, reserve
champion prepared speech; Sam
Chamelin, reserve champion
extemporaneous speech; Amanda
Dell, champion prepared speech;
Emily Hester, reserve champion
radio address; Sara Kopp, reserve
champion prepared speech; and
Ashley Szymanski, champion
radio address. Others were Blair
Mersinger, Emily Chamelin,
Heather Weisse, and Gary
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Ebersole raised the calf to its
current age. This one shouldn’t die.
Seven youth responded to the
contest and essays were to be about
why the youth wanted the calf, and
how they would take care of it
While a committee made the
final selection, Ebersole said he
looked at all the essays and that all
the applications were "wonderful.”
The winner was Bradley Hoov
er, son of Reid and Dianne Hoover,
Lebanon.
A broadly smiling Bradley
seemed a little too excited to talk,
though he said that in brief, he
wrote in his essay that he would
take care of the calf and that he
wanted to breed back an even bet
ter calf to pass along to the next guy
(or girl).
Honors
Brauning.
Winning honors in the Junior
Division (4-H’ers between ages 8
and 10 years) in the Carroll Coun
ty 4-H Public Speaking Contest
were Heather Withncll, champion
extemporaneous speech; Rebecca
Fouls, reserve champion radio
address; Heather Slivccky,
champion prepared speech and
reserve champion extempora
neous Kim Bosley, reserve
champion prepared speech; Sandy
Bolm, champion extemporaneous
and prepared speech; Katie Bass
ler, champion radio address;
Maryann Pctkovsek, reserve
champion extemporaneous; Whit
ney Dell, reserve champion radio
address; and Danielle Hess.
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