A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 18, 1999
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any kind of food, at any time of
the year, at a lower price than
any other country
Marvin and Elaine Smith
manage 13 trucks and 14
employees from their home
office in Strodes Mills. Their
children, Rick, Paula, Jonathan,
and Joshua, help with the busi
ness, although Jonathan and
Joshua are still in high school.
Smith showed his apprecia
tion for his family by saying,
“You can do what you want to if
you have support from your fam
ily” Smith Trucking hauls
throughout the United States
and Canada
Ken Mowery of the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture presented a Century
Farm Award to Darren and
Caryn Peachey of Peach View
Farm, Belleville Their children,
Allyson and Chase, helped
accept the award Darren
thanked his parents, Marvin
and Avonelle, for their support
Benjamin, Amanda, Karol, and Bethany Wingert accept
ed the Farm Family Award during Mifflin County Farm-City
Banquet recently. Karol’s husband, William, and their son
Brandon were not able to attend.
Families Honored at
Mifflin Farm-City Banquet
Darren said that even though
farming keeps changing, family
remains a vital part of it The
Peachey’s keep heifers at Peach
View and milk over 100 cows at
Caryn’s home farm less than a
mile away Darren’s great grand
father bought Peach View in
1896. Mifflin County has ten
Century Farms
Don Baker presented conser
vation awards to representa
tives from the Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, and Big Valley FFA
Featured speaker John
Showers of New Berlin, Union
County, spoke of the opportunity
for tourism in the backyards of
rural America Showers and his
wife, Nancy, own the Inn at Olde
New Berlin and its restaurant,
Gabriel’s.
“What a tourism treat you
have in your own backyard
Everyone is looking for undis
covered places.”
Showers went on to say that
the Baby Boomers have grown
up and have money to spend
“Tourism is what we do with
our free time and leisure dollars
It’s an experience people are
looking for, and you have an
experience here to sell It doesn’t
have to be New Berlin. They just
want to see what rural America
is all about ”
As for Gabriel’s, Showers
said, “People get sold on what we
have but don’t know where we
are - but it doesn’t discourage
them ”
Showers said that when they
first started their website, only
10 percent of their reservations
were made over the Internet.
That figure has now risen to
over 60 percent.
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Rick, Paula, Elaine, and Marvin Smith accept the
County Business Family of the Year Award at the
County Farm-City Banquet. The family owns
Trucking in Strodes Mills.
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