“Jenny” the gentle donkey and her two-month-old Jack
“Eeyore” got lots of attention at the York 4-H Fair’s pet
parade for Raymond Stough, Jr. Jenny is a veteran of
numerous community Palm Sunday parades. Her baby
already shows the marking of a cross on Its tiny shoulders,
classic identification of a Sicilian donkey, the type which
legend says carried Christ Into Jerusalem.
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
BAIR (York Co.) From bak
ing to baby-sitting to beef, the
York County 4-H Fair had a little
something for everyone.
Visitors could ooh and aah over
the pet parade, enjoy a tug of war
or rocketry demonstration, leant
how rabbits and beef arc judged,
enjoy tasty barbecue sandwiches,
even compete in a contest to
match up 4-H staffers and adult
volunteers to their baby pictures.
A highlight of many of the
county’s annual club programs,
the August 6 and 7 fair has blos
Tiinl Gore’s 200-plus Silky chickens she raised for 4-H
this year Inspired her project poster on “What Do Chickens
Do?” The 4-H poultry growers with all-dark-meat bjrds, like
Silkies, pool their project birds when mature for nlche
market sales to-the oriental food trade.
York 4-H Fair Celebrates 20-Year History
somed in 20 years from a roundup
of projects at the fairgrounds to a
two-day expo, with fun and educa
tional events and a fund-raiser at
the expanded 4-H Center near
Bair.
Hundreds of project displays
took center stage in the Center’s
main exhibition hall, culmination
of dozens of learning efforts by
both rural and urban youth around
the county. Judges evaluated and
awarded ribbons to participants,
with the project displays then
open for public inspection.
Projects ranged from insect col
lection to leathercraft, from dn-
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Keeping one eye on Judge Jesse Romberger at all times, rabbltry competitors
switch, handle, and evaluate one another’s entires In the senior showmanship
runoffs. From left are rabbit exhibitors Lillian Eddinger, Rljelle Kraft and Lucas Kraft.
Rijelle Kraft won the championship.
punch to candlemaking, from
baby-sitting to ceramics. Tradi
tional cooking and sewing, main
stays of the historic beginnings of
the rural 4-H program, are still
popular as evidenced by displays
of handmade garments and a vari
ety of foods projects. Gardening
and animal projects likewise arc
still in demand among 4-H
participants.
Sepcial events of the annual
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youth project fair included the 4-H
Olympics, goat, rabbit and cavy,
beef and lamb shows, fashion and
talent shows, and demonstrations
by the poultry and seeing-eye pup
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