Lebanon County Dairy Princess (Conlinind from Pago B 14) arrangements for all her aunts. She also made the table centerpieces for the FFA banquet Amanda was selected as student of the month at the Lebanon Coun ty Career and Technology Center and Cedar Crest High School. She is president of both the county FFA and the Cedar Crest chapter. Her FFA team won por limentary procedure at the state level. Amanda is also a member of the 4-H Dairy Judging team and a former 4-H Dairy Bowl member. Despite her heavy involvement on the farm, Amanda doesn’t limit herself to ag related interests. She is team captain of the school’s hockey team, a member of the Cancelled Checks: A Thing Of The Past? Are cancelled checks becoming history? According to the Federal Re serve, paper checks are still the currency of choice. Even with the increase in con sumers’ use of credit cards, debit cards and electronic fund trans fers, the majority of retail pay ments in 1998 were made using paper checks. 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Ronks, PA 17572 (or leavf message) (717) 687-8262 Spray on and Brush in Painting National Honor Society, and enjoys line dancing and riding her Tennesee walking horse. She is active in the youth group of the Cornerstone Community Church. In addition to being passionate about milk promotion, Amanda said that she is also fanatical about Dodge pick-up trucks. On a more traditional female level, Amanda collects Merry Moos. Her mother collects cow magnets and has shelves of tins and Wheatie boxes featuring favorite sports hcros. Although the parents primarily oversee the broiler operation, Amanda helps with poultry vaccination. Whenever the chicken house is empty, Amanda in-line skates out • offered automatic bill pay ment for recurring monthly bills such as mortgage payments or utilities? Banks across the country ap pear to be phasing out customers’ use of paper checks or weaning them into accepting electronic means of payment Are you adapting to the changes or are you still holding on to paper checks? Chances are you are do ing a little of both. If you are doing one or more of the following, you may be on the road to accepting more forms of electronic payment • Use an automated teller ma chine one or more times each month. • Use your credit card to pay an occasional bill by telephone. • Use your credit card to pay for groceries and almost all other pur chases. • Preauthorize deposits such as direct deposit of your paycheck. • Preauthorize payments for re curring bills in regular (mortgage) or irregular (telephone). (With the increasing cost of first class post age stamps, preauthorizing bill payments is an economical choice for many). • Use a debit card more fre quently than writing a check. Call 800-448-4622 for an agent near you the Martin’s long lane to reach the chicken houses. She takes her boom box and hockey stick and uses the empty chicken house as a skating rink to practice hockey. Amanda is tentatively planning to attend New York’s Alfred State for a two-year course in animal or dairy science. Since Amanda was first in the county for FFA dairy judging, she hopes to utilize her experience by becoming a member of the college judging team. But before she heads off for col lege, Amanda is seriously consid ering signing up for a two- to six month stint as an FFA job exchangee to Australia or New Zealand. “Amanda is a huge asset on the farm,” her mom said. “We feel Highest Quality Animals Ever Sold At This Year’s Sale Of Champions (Continued from Page B 7) group of animals this year was out standing. “I have never seen qual ity animals run so long and deep in every class.” Year after year Hosses Steak & Sea House has been a faithful sup porter of the Farm Show Sale of Champions and Junior Livestock Sale. According to Bill Campbell, they plan to purchase a dozen ani mals at this year’s sale. “We support the sale because we feel like we’re helping to make the world a better place by support Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22, 2000-815 really honored that she likes to work on the farm.” In fact, her parents sometimes takf! mini vacations by leaving Amanda in charge of the dairy operation. Although her parents will wel come Amanda back to the farm with open arms after college, they want their daughter to pursue other options to make sure farming is what she really wants for a career. About a year ago, the Martin farm was designated as a preserved farm in Lebanon County. “We decided to do it because the children wanted us to do it,” Martin said. “They are the ones who will be most affected by the decision mote than us. They all were posi tive that this was the direction they wanted us to go,” Martin said. ing agriculture,” said Nancy Campbell, Bill’s wife and public relations director for Hosses. The Campbells donated the grand champion market steer to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, while they plan to put the other ani mals they purchased into the buy back program. “We support SI livestock sales at local fairs throughout Pennsyl vania,” said Campbell. “We sup port a lot of community programs, but we’re more heavily involved in supporting both 4-H and FFA than any other.” Amanda knows what direction she wants consumers to go: “Use more dairy products.” From her repertoire of recipes, Amanda shares this one for readers to try. CREAMY FRUIT DIP 8-ounces cream cheese 3 A cup brown sugar 1 cup sour cream 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 cup cold milk 3.4-ounce package instant vanil la pudding mix In mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and brown sugar until smooth. Add sour cream, vanilla, lemon juice, milk, and pudding mix. Cover and chill at least one hour. Serve as dip for fruit. Bill Fox of Foxes Markets has also been a longtime supporter of the Sale of Champions at Farm Show. He has purchased animals for the last 29 years and set the record for the highest bid on the champion lamb in 1993. Fox expects to buy 100 lambs at the 2000 Farm Show. “We believe that Pennsylvani a’s youth programs are some of the most worthwhile causes we can support,” said Fox. “We like to support the communities that sup port our stores.” The lambs that Fox purchases at the Farm Show will be sold next week in his stores during their annual lamb sale. “Customers look forward to the sale because the quality of .lambs is just outstanding.” Both the Pennsylvania Lieuten ant Governor Mark Schweicker and Secretary of Agriculture Sam Hayes, Jr., were on hand to encour age bidders and commend the 4-Hers and FFA members who exhibited at this year’s show. “We’re proud of our kids,” said Schweiker. “We’re here today to acknowledge the day to day opera tions of the farmers, who fuel a $44 billion dollar enterprise in Pen nsylvania. Everything we raise here this morning goes to see that our young people stay in agriculture.”
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