Paws & Tails
At the last meeting before the
fair, on Aug. 11, the club members
walked their dogs in circles, prac
ticing commands and routines
they’ve been working on: heel, sit,
stay, left-about turns, about turns,
recalls, finishes, sil/down, and im
mediate down which is a life
saving command.
Irish Hill Shamrocks
A club meeting was held Aug. 8
at Forest Lake Township Hall.
The pledge was led by Seth Ever
itt, roll and dues were taken, and
Megan Fetterman read the min
utes and a card from the Red
Cross.
Leader Fran Small asked the
members to tell their age and what
projects they were taking to the
fair. Demonstrations were pre
sented by Chantal and Shaloam
Birchard, Jake and Justin Smith,
Chris Stanis, and Jaime and Liz
Holbert.
4-H’ers Win
At Two Horse Shows
Twenty-three Dauphin County
4-H’ers won ribbons at the Dis
trict Six 4-H Horse and Pony
Show held at the Lebanon County
Fairgrounds on Aug. 16 and four
4-H’ers placed at the District
Horse Production Show on Aug.
21 at the Shippensburg Fair
grounds.
Participants in the Horse and
Pony Show were evaluated on
how well the rider and horse per
form together. Depending on the
division, the top two or three place
finishers at the Horse and Pony
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Show will go on to compete in the
Pennsylvania State Horse Show
on Oct 24-26 at the Farm Show
Complex in Harrisburg.
At the Horse Production Show
in Shippensburg, youth competed
in their raising and breeding proj
ects. Judging was based on the
horse’s confirmation. At the pro
duction show, only blue ribbon
winners are eligible to compete in
the State Horse Show in October.
At the Horse and Pony show the
combination of Christie Laudens
lager, Lykens, Jason Kramer,
Dauphin, and Megan Deveney,
Enola captured first place honors
in the county team competition.
Laudenslagaer was a double win
ner, taking her second blue ribbon
in pleasure horse driving.
Allison Reigle, Halifax, led a
Dauphin County sweep of indivi
dual competition in saddle seat
equitation senior division with
Reigle; Amy Klinger, Dauphin;
and Kristin Brown, Harrisburg
taking one - two - three, respec
tively, Reigle was also a double
winner, taking an additional blue
ribbon in saddle seat pleasure.
Ashley Shiffler of Hummels
town was also a double winner,
taking blue ribbons in hunter seat
equitation and senior English
grooming and showmanship. A
fourth double winner for Dauphin
County was Christie Berchok of
Dauphin who took blue ribbons in
hunter seat equitation over jumps
and- hunter under saddle horses.
Melissa Peters of Harrisburg won
the working hunter horse division.
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In the Pleasure Pairs category,
Tasha Wagner, Hummelstown
and Jason Kramer, Dauphin
teamed up to place second, while
Kate Proctor, Harrisburg and Jes
sica O’Neal, Hummelstown
paired up to take third.
At the District Horse Produc
tion Show held at the Shippens
burg Fairgrounds Dauphin County
4-H’ers also were top place
finishers. Kristin Showers, Hali
fax, took the blue ribbon in hunter
type yearling gelding, and Kaitlin
Showers took first in Morgan
yearling colt. Amy Cave of Gran
ville won hunter type filly of the
year. Jennifer Rudy, Halifax,
placed 2nd in stock type yearling
gelding.
Kristin and Kaitlin Showers and
Amy Cave qualified to compete in
the production divisions at the
State Horse Show in October. Ber
chok, Reigle, Shiffler, Laudens
lager, Kramer, Devaney, Peters,
Amy Klinger, Beth Klinger, Wag
ner and Todd all qualified to com
pete in the horse and pony divi
sions at the state show at the Farm
Show Complex.
Garrett County representatives
from Western Maryland were new
challengers for championship
honors in the 4-H “Learn to Earn”
compact tractor contest held Aug.
23 on opening day of the Mary
land State Fair in Timonium.
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neighboring Carroll and Haiti-
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more counties shared top honors
in the 4-H small engine contest. A
Montgomery County resident won
top honors in the state 4-H elec-
Iric/energy contest for the fifth
consecutive time.
Shawn Bender, 14, of Accident
(Garrett County) was the senior
champion among six contestants
in the compact tractor event. Jus
tin Watt, 15, of Middleburg (Car
roll County) placed second. Justin
won the junior championship last
year.
Christopher Dixon, 13, of
Shawsville (Harford County) won
championship honors among eight
contestants in the junior age cate
gory. Jeremiah Guard, 14, of
Friendsville (Garrett County) was
runner-up for the second consecu
tive year.
Jason Sellman, 16, of Wards
Chapel (Baltimore County) won
the senior 4-H small engine
championship after placing a close
second in this category last year.
Brian Owings, 15, of New Wind
sor (Carroll County) placed
second.
Adam Brower, 13, of Taney
town (Carroll County) won the
intermediate-age championship in
4-H small engine competition. Ja
son Fringer, 9, of Smallwood
(Carroll County) received junior
second-place honors.
Sam Evans, 11, of Griffith Park
(Montgomery County) won the
junior 4-H electric/energy contest.
His brother, Ben Evans, was the
1996 winner in this event.
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Lancaster Pamtlrtg; Saturday, September ivi997»m7
The club held its meeting on
July 21. The members started with
heeling and a few stays, then had
some fun with the tire jump, bar
jump, and the broad jump. They
did more heeling and then went
into figure eights.
The day was finished by doing
an exercise with the agility equip
ment They had to go through the
tire jump, bar jump, broad jump,
weave around boxes, and do a sit
stay on a card table.
At the July 28 meeting, mem
bers and dogs started out with
heeling, then did sit down-stays,
and stand-stays. They also did
heeling tests. Heeling tests are
when the dog is put on a sit-stay,
takes two or three steps in any
direction, and then is told to heel.
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Twelve-year-old Lloyd Hardman
111 of Cumberland (Allegany
County) placed second for the sec
ond year in a row. There were no
senior contestants.
Senior division winners in last
week’s state fair compact tractor
and engineering contests are eligi
ble to represent Maryland in the
National 4-H Engineering, Sci
ence and Leadership Event,
scheduled Sept. 21-23. For the
third consecutive year, this event
will be held at Purdue University
in West Lafayette, Ind., and the
Tippecanoe County fairground
across the Wabash River in Lafay
ette, Ind.
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