< ir £ A \ tn Vo). 41 No. 46 Hundreds Gather For Dairy Princess Celebration Tonight LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Tonight is the 40th anniversary celebration of the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess and Promotion Ser vices, Inc. (PDPPS). Hundreds of people will gather at the Sheraton hm-East in Harrisburg to recap the program’s accomplishments and to crown a new state dairy princess from the 31 contestants. Among the crowd will be past dairy princesses, PDPPS board members, and dedicated commit tee members who serve on county dairy promotion boards. These ate die people who have brought sue- 33rd All-American Is Dairy Enthusiasts’ Gala VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Fanning Staff HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The 33rd Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show (PAADS) unofficially starts today in the state Farm Show Complex, and is officially open to the general public Monday, Sept. 23 through Thursday, Sept. 26. Over the years, PAADS has grown in scope and size and com petition for those dairy cattle breeders wishing to improve the visibility of their cattle and breed PennAg Industries Approves Bylaws Changes VERNON ACHENBACH JR. Lancaster Farming Staff HERSEHY (Dauphin Co.) Members of the Penn Ag Industries Association, a trade group of agribusinesses conduct ing business in Pennsylvania, on Tuesday approved amendments to Chris Helsler, Lampeter Fire Company lieutenant, warns FFA students about the hazards of farming. This demonstration was staged as part of a $2,500 grant from the Pennsylvania Agriculture and Rural Youth Grant Program through the state depart ment Of agriculture. See story page B-12. Photo byEyarattNawswangar, managing editor. Four Sections cess to the grassroots dairy promo tion efforts. It’s the only dairy promotion organization in the state that con centrates on the personal touch by using county dairy princesses, alternates, ambassadors, and dairy darlings to hand out samples, recipes, and information to indivi duals at fairs and special events. According to Jan Harding, director of PDPPS, these dairy spokcspeoplc contacted 953,418 people last year. But it’s difficult to measure the success of PDPPS’s promotional efforts in numbers. (Turn to Pago A2O) ing programs. To an extent, the PAADS has been considered the dairy cattle breeder’s farm show. The oldest and largest dairy showjn the East, it is the region’s premier dairy cattle showcase, attracting cattle breeders from many states and Canada. Show organizers have increas ingly worked to widen the spec trum of audience for whom the event has value especially commercial dairy farmers and (Turn to Pago A 32) its bylaws that permits the estab lishment of industry-specific councils within the organization. During the group’s 118th annual convention business meeting, held Tuesday at the Hotel Hershey, members approved amendments that would allow councils to be Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 21, 1886 formed within its ranks to focus on specific aspects of agribusiness in order to help the organization be more knowlegdeable and suppor tive of all specific aspects of agri business now represented broadly These people play a vital role In dairy promotion and win help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the PDPPS held tonight at the Sheraton Inn-East in Harrisburg. In the front row from left are Kelly Rohrbach, Berks County Dairy Princess; Heather Brubak er, Lancaster County dairy ambassador; and Kelly Rohrbach, Berks County Lil Miss. Back from left, are Charlene Ranck, a former state dairy princess and now a board member for PDPPS; Pat Miller, former PDPPS coordinator; Deb Brubaker, former state dairy princess, the daughter of Pat Miller and mother of Heather; and Becky Son nen Bube, former state dairy princess and program director for MAMMA.Phofo by Lou Ann Good. . (Turn to Pago A 22) $27.50 Per Year Dr. Larry Specht Media Handling Of SE Facts Under Gun At Poultry Show ANDY ANDREWS ‘ Lancaster Fanning Staff LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) Producers of Tuesday night’s NBC TV ’’Dateline” Show on Sal monella cntcritidis (SE) in eggs were given a chance to review the facts about SE and to contact the Northeast Egg Promotion Coalition. And they didn’t even bother to get in touch with the coalition, according to Christine Bushway, coalition director. 601 Per Copy Specht Is All-American Image Winner HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) Dr. Larry Specht, retired Penn State Dairy Specialist, has been nam&) the recipient of the 1996 Pennsylvania All-American Dairy Show Image Award Presented at the AU-American buffet on Wed nesday, September 25, the award will recognize Specht’s diligent worjc with the show since its in ception in 1964. He has served as breed chair man for several breeds, adviser to (Turn to Page A 25) Bush way, of CMB Victory Company in North Hampton, N.H., spoke to about 60 producers Wednesday morning during the egg producers' segment of the two-day Northeast Poultry Show at the Holiday Inn Lancaster Host. Bushway said that the coalition faxed all the information available about the successful Pennsylvania Egg Quality Assurance Ftalgram (PEQAP), what some call the “ Cadillac*’ of egg quality assurance (turn to Pag* A 23)
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