810-Lanca«ter Farming, Saturday, October 12, 1996
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KILE Provides Fun For Youth
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Along with the beef cattle,
swine, sheep and horse shows, the
Pennsylvania Keystone Interna
tional Livestock Exposition
(KILE) provides a lot of opportun
ities for youth to have fun.
For some kids, of course, bring
ing a show animal and helping to
prepare it for the show ring and
meeting other kids with similar
interests is plenty of fun.
But even for those with plenty to
do to have fun, there are different
ways to have fun at KILE, such as
throwing a part of a bale of straw,
pushing a small wheelbarrow with
in it, or competing in a
John Brigich shows his trophy and ribbon for winning
age class in the KILE tractor pedal pull.
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John Brlglch shows his winning KILE tractor pedal pull*
ing technique. He and his father are both tractor pulling
champions this year.
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pedal tractor pulling contest.
There are lots of different ani
mals to see at KILE and while it
would be nice to be able to pet
them, most are not for touching,
since they are supposed to be busy
getting ready for the show ring.
But at KILE, there is a petting zoo,
with small pigs, a calf, baby lambs,
and ducklings walking up a ramp
to eat food and jump in the water.
There are also chicks hatching
under a heat lamp.
In the annual tractor pedal pull
contest, there were six different
ages in competition, from age 3 to
age 8.
John Brigich, 8, son of Mark and
Andra Brigich, of Canonsburg,
tried his hand at the tractor pedal
contest for the first time this year
and won!
Brigich was at KILE, along with
his parents who said they wanted
to visit the show to see how the
sheep shows were done. They have
some Shropshire sheep, along with
200 grade Holsteins they milk on
their 800-acre farm. John’s father
Mark said that next year they are
going to show sheep at KILE.
While they were walking
around, looking at all the animals,
John was able to enter the tractor
pulling contest, which is open to
any youth aged 8 or less.
It was the first time John entered
a pedal tractor pulling contest, but
he has one at home and rides it all
the time. Sometimes at home, he
rides on the big tractor with his
father, but mostly he rides his own
pedal tractor, and he has lots of
hills to ride up and down.
His father competes in tractor
pulling contests sometimes, and in
August he won the stock tractor
pulling contest at the Washington
County Fairgrounds. The Erst time
he tried it, he pulled the weight the
entire length of the course. The
second time, he didn’t get quite as
far, but ended up 90 feet beyond
the second place finisher.
John had an equally good pull
with the pedal tractor, taking it the
entire length of the course.
Katie Nolt, 7, daughter of Gene
and Charlene Nolt, of New Hol
land, tried the pedal pull for the
first time too, and she went 44 feet,
also winning.
But mostly, just being able to
have fun at KILE was the most
important thing. There is always
an official “winner” for every con
test, but everyone who participates
wins because they have fun.
KILE TRACTOR
PEDAL PULL
AGE 3: 1 .Brandon Carr; 2.Freddle Fray.
AGE 4:1 .Abby Benninghoff; 2.Angel Bol
linger; 3.Kara Kingsley.
AGE S; I.Ben Bard; 2.Tyler Yost; S.Ben
Weinbrecht.
AGE 6-1 .Ronnie Ferguson; 2 Chad Wal
tersdofl; 3.Any Matlock.
AGE 7: I.Katie Nolt; 2.Cari Rudy.
AGE 8: I.John Brigich; 2.Jeff Askey;
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Katie Molt, daughter of Gene and Charlene Non, of New Holland, pedals her way to
victory.
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Cassadaga, N.Y., throws a bale of straw in the KILE Ag
Andy Matlock, son of Tim and Ellen Matlock, of Ohio,
shows his trophy and ribbon he receives from John Eaton,
with Lebanon Valley National Bank, for winning his age
class in the KILE Ag Of ics hr ' bale toss contest.
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