818-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 8, 1998
Youngsters from the Adams County 4-H Goat Club com
pete in costume at the Adams County 4-H Fair held Aug. 1
at the South Mountain Fairgrounds.
Junior Grange
Campers Find
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Finally, the big moment
arrives and the court is formally
introduced as a boy court mem
ber escorts a girl to the front of
the stage at camp chapel.
Following a short program
that includes handing out the
awards and other recognitions,
it is time for the big moment. All
the studying for the test, the
unrelenting nervousness of the
impromptu question and a week
of building excitement comes to
a dizzying crescendo as
Campbell tears open the enve
lope to announce the winners.
“And the winners are...”
For one boy and one girl, the
dream has finally come true.
□happenings
ARENDTSVILLE (Adams
C O- ) For a year Adams County
4-H members worked on pro
jects to bring to the annual fair
held Aug. 1 at the South
Mountain Fairgrounds near
Arendtsville.
And on this day the air was
charged with anticipation as
some 300 youngsters, from Carl
Wilkinson, 12, of Aspers, who
hobbled on crutches as he led his
calf into competition, to Katie
Baldwin, 10, of Biglerville, who
was proud to show off her two
month-old Nubin/Alpine goat,
took part in the event.
Carl broke his leg in a three
wheeler accident a week before
the fair.
This year the youths benefit
ed from the largest of 31 area
businesses, which donated all of
the items in the restaurant from
food to paper products so that all
of the money collected could be
used for the 4-H Senate
Exchange Program trip to
Colorado next summer. Youths
from Colorado visited the Adams
County 4-H members this year.
While many youngsters took
to the ring with buttefflies in
their stomachs there was one
group who brought a smile to
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