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Lebanon Farm-City Banquet
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staff to be more aggressive, telling
them, *That’s what pays the bills,
not die news, not what people
read.”
Boltz said he also got to see the
operation’s new automatic
inserter a mechanism for tak
ing the preprinted advertisement
supplements and putting them into
the newspaper.
He also noted Mick’s constant
attention to time and ensuring that
the operation didn’tfall behind and
lose time, equated to money.
Boltz said that perhaps the one
thing that Mick said that impressed
more than any other was Mick’s
perspective of the county, coming
from a person not from the area
who has traveled around and work
ed in different communities on dif
ferent papers.
“Andy made me realize how
lucky we are as to the quality of
people who workhere,” Boltz said.
“I asked him, ‘How do we rate?’
And he said, ‘Second to none.’"
When Mick took to the podium
he said he was pleased with the
type of farm to which was assigned
as a participant in the exchange.
He said he was glad it wasn’t a
livestock farm, but instead, a tree
farm.
In an effort to prepare himself
far the Farm-City Banquet sharing
of his experience, Mick said he
scanned joke books and the Inter
net “There are no jokes about
trees," he deadpanned.
However, he said he came
across a story about the origin of
the Christmas tree, that it was
started by St. Boniface, sometime
around 700 A.D., as an English
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According to Mick, the story
goes that St. Boniface came across
a pagan ritual where a young boy
was tied to a large oak tree and
about to be sacrificed to gods.
Boniface purportedly stopped
the act saving the boy, cut down
the oak, and there next to the fallen
oak was a spruce, an evergreen.
He pulled up the evergreen and
handed it to the boy and started the
observation that the spruce repre
sented everylasting life.
Mick said, “In some way, shape
or form, that was the beginning of
Yordy-Boltz Tree Farm,” he said.
However, he also noted that if
the tree-raising operation only
depended upon the sale of Christ
mas trees, there would only be
enough business for three months
of work per year.
Instead, the tree farm raises a
variety of landscaping evergreens
that ate sold widely for industrial,
commercial and residential land
scaping, as well as for golf course
design.
He said he also learned that
Boltz doesn't just plan for the
immediate future, but must plan
what he plants for a return 3- to 5-
years or more down the road.
Boltz has to project what people
will want years in advance. Mick
said, “I never knew there were so
many varieties (of evergreens and
ornamentals)."
Not only docs the Yordy-Boltz
Farm use its own land, but leases
property also, and Mick said he
was impressed with that and also
watching tree harvesting.
He said he expected to sec crews
of laborers with shovels and picks,
but was impressed to see a special
ized harvester with hydraulics that
pulled trees out of the ground and
wrapped them. The only labor
involvement was wiring the burlap
tight, he said.
Comparing jobs, Mick said he
would like to spend one or two
days on the farm in the fall walking
through the trees of the large farm,
but, “I don’t think I’m patient
enough to wait 3- to 5- years to see
the results of my work.”
Another tradition of the Leba
non Farm-City Banquet is the auc
tioning of a sheep-to-shaw shaw.
Again produced by the Lebanon
A century farm award is presented to the Frank Reist family form. From the left, In
the front row, are Frank’s wife Cindy, their.daughter Michelle who holds a framed
photograph of the farm, and Frank’s mother Eunice, holding the century farm award.
In the second row, from the left, are Linda and Carl, Frank, and Cathy and Donald
Reist, while in the third row are Gary and Valerie Reist.
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Valley Woolsies, state Dairy Prin
cess Dotterer modeled the bi-color
shaw made with wool from a
Romney/border Leicster cross
sheep.
It was auctioned by Harry Bach
man, an Annville auctioneer who
is a consistent supporter of local
and state agricultural and livestock
events, including the county agri
cultural youth programs, the Farm-
City event and the Lebanon Area
Fair.
It was purchased for $275 by
Lebanon Valley Fanners Bank.
The event also includes a draw
ing for door prizes, which offered a
dozen high value prizes and
included the grand prize of a quilt
While that normally would have
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concluded the event, a special pie.
sentation was made to Homan,
who recently celebrated his 73rd
birthday.
Bachman said that while it was
known that Henry always wanted a
cocker spaniel, they offered t
similar-sized animal to him in
hopes that it would fill the void.
An obviously stunned Homan
received a young pig, and after a
break in laughter from the audi
ence, he asked if he was really sup|
posed to take it with him.
Instead, he made a gift of it to
Gabe of Heidi
Svonavcc, who, for commodify
promotional effect, attended tbie
event dressed as a lamb. Gabe said
he would take it home to raise as a
pet.