Bi2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 4, 1998
1998-99 York County Dairy Princess Jessica Pomraning and her promotion team: from
left, front, are Alternate Princess Heather Crow), Princess Jessica, Li’l Miss Amber Thoman
and Altnernate Princess Jessica Yohe, and rear, Dairy Miss Amanda Hoover and Dairy Maids
Janet Yohe and April Daugherty.
Jessica Pomraning is
York Dairy Princess
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
YORK (York Co.) “Wow!”
was the immediate reaction of Jes
sica Pomraning after being
crowned the 1998-99 York Coun
ty Dairy Princess.
Jessica, 16, is the daughter of
Teresa and Myron Pomraning,
Slab Road, Delta. She was
crowned York County’s 1998-99
dairy princess as the highlight of
the annual pageant, held June 20
at the 4-H Center.
Jessica Yohe was named the
first alternate. She is 16 and the
daughter of Kathy and Jerry Yohe,
York. Heather Crowl, 16-year-old
daughter of Joyce and Ellis Crowl,
Airville, was also named an alter
nate. As part of the judging and
selection process, all three candi
dates presented speeches, skits,
and responded to impromptu
questions during the pageant pro
gram.
The new county princess is a
junior at Red Lion Area High
School and active in the marching
band, yearbook staff, and school
musical events. Jessica is an Air
ville 4-H dairy club member and
exhibits her animals in local
shows. She helps with various re
sponsibilities on the Pomraning
family’s 60-milldng operation and
is employed part time at
J.CPenney.
For her skit presentation, Jessi
ca performed as a high school ath
lete whose poor food choices led
to a sporting-event injury and, in
turn, taught her to eat a more
healthful diet Jessica’s speech
topic was a related one. focusing
on the calcium crisis resulting in
injuries and on helping consumers
understand the new milk labels to
make their best diet selections.
During on-stage questioning,
Jessica was asked how she would
personally benefit if selected as
dairy princess. Her response was
that it would help her to improve
her communications skills toward
her future job career.
Alternate Jessica Yohe made a
speech presentation on how milk
“does a body good,” reviewing the
numerous nutrients found in milk
and how they help keep people’s
bodies in better health. Jessica be
came a magician in a long, flow
ing black robe for her skit, demon
strating how milk is magically
change into various tasty dairy
foods.
Questioned as to what had
prompted her to enter the dairy
princess pageant. Jessica ex
plained her concern over the
health of people, especially chil
dren, who do not eat proper diets,
and her interest in helping to edu
cate them toward better food con
sumption habits.
Jessica’s family is part of the
Stump Acres dairy operation,
where she helps with some milk
ing chores, as well as woiking part
time at Hardee’s Restaurant She
is a junior at Spring Grove Area
High School and a member of the
track and field team.
Alternate Heather Crowl be
came a television host for the Mer
ry Moo Story Hour as her skit pre
sentation, garbed in appropriate
cow-fabric costume to tell a cow
related tale illustrated with an
oversized storybook. Her
“Where’s Your Milk Mustache?*’
speech warned that not enough
teen-agers are consuming milk
and suggested a variety of alterna
tive dairy products that help meet
the body’s daily need for the nutri
ents provided by milk.
When asked what she would
hope to accomplish if chosen as
the dairy princess, Heather related
her interest in working with junior
high, teen-age and senior citizen
groups to share the dairy nutrition
message.
Heather is a junior at Red Lion
Area High School and active in
the school and county chapters of
the FFA. She is an Airville 4-H
dairy club member and exhibits
many of her 22 head of cattle.
Heather has served as a York
County Dairy Maid for three
years.
Crowned as York County Dairy
Maids were 14-year-olds April
Daughterly and Janet Yohe. For
their part of the pageant program,
each gave a brief poster-illustrated
speech on the benefits of drinking
milk as opposed to consuming soft
drinks and answered questions
from emcee Chuck Cruickshank.
Janet is the daughter of Kathy
and Jerry Yohe, York, and sister to
alternate princess Jessica. She is a
ninth-grader at Spring Grove, ac
tive in several sports and the
school orchestra. Her farm re
sponsibilities include helping with
evening milkings.
April is the daughter of Terre
Anne and Philip Daugherty, York,
and a sister to retiring princess
Amanda Daugherty. She helps
with milking and dairy cleanup
chores on the family’s farm. A
New Freedom Christian School
eighth-grade student, April enjoys
playing softball.
Named Dairy Miss for York
County is Amanda Hoover.
Amanda is the 10-year-old daugh
ter of Rose and Paul Hoover, East
Prospect, where her family main
tains a dairy goat herd. A poem on
dairying was her presentation for
the program.
Rounding out the York dairy
promotion team is Amber Tho
man, 4, crowned as the Li’l Dairy
Miss. Amber’s parents are Gail
and Gary Thoman, Dallastown.
Amber likes playing with the
farm’s calves and kittens.
In her farewell as the outgoing
princess, Amanda Hoover espe
cially thanked her sister, April, for
taking her place many times to
help with the bam and milking
chores while she fulfilled her prin
cess responsibilities. She related
her most embarrassing predica
ment as an elementary school pro
motion. during which she ex
plained to the children that only
"girl cows” give milk. When one
young man became irate that “boy
cows” were being overlooked and
questioned her, another piped up
that boy cows are used for meat
April breathed a sign of relief and
quickly moved on to another sub
ject
“Work together as a team and
have a good time," were her part
ing words of advice to the contest
ants as they awaited the final judg
ing decision.
Serving as judges for the pag
eant were Chris Marstellar, Ste
warts town, farm wife and current
Mrs. Pennsylvania Globe; Paul
Miller. Linglestown, retired Hols
tein dairyman and cattle classifier,
and Ron Miller, Jacobus, candi-
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