Russell Wyles Wins Central Pennsylvania Championship Show
GAIL STROCK
Mifflin Co. Correspondent
HUNTINGDON (Huntingdon
Co.) “She’s got her wedding
clothes on her tonight!”
exclaimed judge Oren Bender
when describing his first choice
in the junior 3-year-old class at
the Central Pennsylvania
Championship Show in
Huntingdon.
Joy-Haven DJ Barbie, owned
by Russell A'. Wyles of Roaring
Springs, caught the judge’s eye
again later that evening when
he selected her for grand cham
pion
Wyles hadn’t been expecting
to get back into the showring,
but a friend encouraged him to
show Joy-Haven DJ Barbie after
Wyles purchased her at he
Spring Sale at Penn State.
“I showed in 4-H, then got
out. My kids showed in 4-H,
then I quit showing. Now I’m
back in,” Wyles said.
Barbie won at the
Martinsburg and Bedford shows
this year, and Wyles plans to
show her in the Pennsylvania
All American Show, Sept. 20-24,
in Harrisbdrg.
Reserve grand champion hon
ors went to a senior 2-year-old
owned by Desirae D. Hillegass
and exhibited by Mountain View
Farm/Desirae and Justin
Hillegass. This animal won
grand champion by a junior
exhibit, but was shown by Jason
Mowery.
Andrew. Reed’s dry cow, Reed-
Gap Star of Liberty, won reserve
grand champion by a junior
exhibitor This cow won grand
champion at the open show at
the Mifflin County Youth Fair
the beginning oLAugust,
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American Dairy Assoc, and Dairy Council, Inc.
DISTRICT MEETING DATES
The Board and Staff of the American Dairy Association and Dairy Council, Inc., invites all
Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers to attend this year’s District Annual Meetings. The grassroots efforts of
ADADC depend on involvement and input by our dairy farmer members. The purpose of our
meetings is to present updates on budgets and programs that are used to sell milk to consumers in
New York, northern New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania. The district meetings are also your
chance to select the farmer leaders of the organization.
As part of their membership in ADADC, each farm will receive two free meals and will be credited
with $2 off any additional meals at the district meetings. Please attend and take advantage of this
opportunity to have your questions answered, and take pride in your award winning programs.
DISTRICT
Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne,
Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming, PA
Schuylkill, Berks, Lehigh, Montgomery,
Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon
Dauphin, Cumberland, Adams, Franklin
York, PA
Junior champion honors went
to Emily Cloninger’s fall calf,
while reserve junior champion
went to a fall yearling owned by
Lori Connelly and exhibited by
Fairbrook Farms.
Both owners were junior
exhibitors.
Central Pennsylvania
Holstein Champion
Grand Champion; Russell A Wyles
Reserve Grand Champion; Desirae D
Millegass
Junior Champion: Emily Clonmger
Reserve Junior Champion; Lon I
Connelly
Junior Best Three: 1 Globe Run Farm, 2
McCullough Farms, 3 Peach-View Farm
Beat Three; 1 Glove Run Farm, 2 Sue-
Bets Holstems
Produce of Dam; 1 Matthew Kline, 2
Autumn-View Holstelns, 3 Golden-Dream
Holstems
Dam It Daughter: 1 Golden-Dream
Holstems, 2 Joe Stilt, 3 Glove Run Farm
Spring Calf 1 Desirae D Hillegass, 2 Eric
R Fredenck, 3 Sherry L Plummer
Winter Calf: 1 Elizabeth Clonmger, 2 Ellen
E Bert, 3 Justin Graff
Fall Calf: 1 Emily Cloninger, 2 Justin
Hillegass, 3 Amanda Cessna
Summer Yearling; 1 Bradley Coffman, 2
Amanda Cessna, 3 Juliana Hillegass
Spring Yearling; 1 Audrey J Fox, 2
Allyson J Peachey, 3 Ken E Connelly
Winter Yearling; 1 Fairbrook Farms, 2
Donald & Vicky McCullough, 3 Emily K
Cloninger
Fall Yearling; 1 Lon L Connelly, 2
Amanda Cessna, 3 David L Kochner
Dry Cow 4 & Under; 1 Andrew C Reed, 2
Ellen E Bert, 3 Rachel M Fox
Dry Cow 5 Years & Older: 1 Paul E &
Harry Lewis Smith, 2 Sue-Bels Holstems, 3
Samantha Foster
Junior 2-Year-Old; 1 Joseph Stitt, 2
Amanda Cessna, 3 Timothy Peachey
Senior 2-Year-Old; t Desirae D Hillegass,
2 Cessna Brothers, 3 Jason Ruffaner
Junior 3-Year-Old: 1 Russell A Wyles, 2
John Andrew Foster 111, 3 Fairbrook Farms
Senior 3-Year-Old: 1 Ronald Hough, Jr, 2
John A Jr & John A Foster 111, 3 Fairbrook
Farms
4- 1 Matthew L Kline, 2 Sue-
Bets Holstems, 2 Phil Hamner
5- Year-Old: 1 Tara R Kochner 2 David
Kochner, 3 Tyler Peachey
125,000 pound, 1 Ronald Hought Jr 2
John David Kelly, 3 Sue Bets Holstems
6-Year-Old; 1 Jim & Kim Grove 2 Michelle
Yoder; 3 Speerelte Farm
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COUNTIES
Potter, Tioga, Bradford
Sullivan, PA
Blair County Dairy Princess Amanda Sollenberger (left) and Centre County Dairy Princess
Billie Jo Bird help congratulate Russell A. Wyles (second from left) with his grand champi
on, and Jason Mowery (second from right), who shows the reserve grand champion.
Junior champions selected at the Central Pennsylvania Championship Show include
Emily Cloninger (third from left) as junior champion and Lory Connelly (second from right)
as reserve junior champion. The are joined by (l-r) Huntingdon County Dairy Princess Sara
Hayden, show judge Oren Bender, and (far right) Mifflin County Dairy Princess Laura
Peachey.
PLACE
Troy Fire Hall
Troy, PA
Gibson Grange
Gillette, PA
Yoders Restaurant
Lancaster, PA
CONTACT
DATE
Ray MacWhinne
(717) 596-3657
10/13
Allen Roszell
(717) 278-2433
10/8
George Stambaugh
(717) 776-5746
Jeff Martin
(717) 656-7774
11/2
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 12, 1998-A2'
TIME
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
7:30 pm
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