812-Lancaater Fanning, Saturday, November 23, 1906
York Society of Farm Women officers for 1997 are, from left, Hester Hemminger,
treasurer; Arlene Keener, president; Lois Manifold, first vice president; Dolly Sutton,
secretary, and Sandy Hllty, second vice president.
York Farm Women Celebrate
Hospitality, Friends
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK (York Co.) In what
has become a tradition of the past
several years, members of the
York County Society of Farm
Women celebrated their annual
meeting with an outpouring of
support for those less fortunate
around the community.
Funds from the Farm Women’s
annual charitable fundraiser raised
about $2,400, split among three
York County charitable organiza
tions. Checks for $790 each were
presented to York White Rose
Hospice. New Life for Girls, and
New Life for Children.
The check presentations were a
highlight of die Society’s county
convention, held November 7 at
Wisehaven Hall, with a theme of
Jty.rgtt.
fruits of the Farm Women’s annual charitable fundraiser.
President Arlene Keener presented $790 checks to Karen
Porter, representing the York White Rose Hospice and
Jose Pachero, accepting for New Life for Girls. A third
check was donated to New Life for Children.
Wearing The Bag Lady’s collection of outrageous and colorful hats, several Farm
Women were “volunteered” from the audience for a chorus and hat parade.
“Hospitality and Friends.”
Helping to fulfill that theme,
members continued another tradi
tion of filling a long row of tables
inside the hall’s entrance with
donations of dry and canned food
stuffs and non-perishable house
hold supplies. Those products
were later packed and delivered
by a committee of Farm Women
members to southern York Coun
ty’s Mason-Dixon Food Bank,
and New Hope Ministries, saving
the Dover and Dillsburg areas of
northern York County.
The more than 200 Farm
Women attending the convention
wwe not quite sure what to expect
when their morning program
guest. The Bag Lady, came hob
bling up the center aisle on crutch
es.
Rita McGinty, an actress, first
played a bag lady in a theatrical
production. She was so taken with
the character that she saved cos
tuming and props and eventually
was led to begin presenting a
humorous-spiritual program on
the homeless. Her jokes, quips,
mini-skits and collection of outra
geous hats—which she plunks on
the heads of audience members
are interspersed with sobering
facts about the nation’s homeless.
It was her 181st performance and
she donates all proceeds to the
Interfaith Family Shelter, a Har
risburg center for the homeless.
Before she was through. The
Bag Lady had the Farm Women
howling with laughter, several of
them parading around the room
decked out in her hats and ulti
mately on their feet for standing
ovation.
In another tradition for the York
Farm Women’s unusual meeting,
a candle lighting ceremony
memorialized members who had
died since the 199 S convention.
York County Dairy Princess
Tanya Thoman, Dallas town, and
Dairy Miss Heather Crowl, Air
ville, spoke with the Farm Women
about milk and good nutrition,
using a cow puppet and poster.
Afternoon entertainment was a
musical program by The
Eppeihmers.
During the business meeting,
Hester Hemminger, Glen Rock,
was elected county Farm Women
treasurer. She replaced retirig
treasurer Treva Stiles. Other offic
ers are Arlene Keener, president;
Lois Manifold, Ist vice president;
Sandy Hilty, 2nd vice president;
and Delores Sutton, secretary.
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