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In honor of Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Ridge and beverages and ice cream provided by Turkey Hill Lancaster County Poultry Association serves lunch to Dairies. From left are members of the Poultry Associa -125 people at the Water Street Rescue Mission, Lancas- tion > Carol and Nelson Groff with daughter Dana who is ter. The Feb. 12th luncheon included chicken’donated the Poultr y Ambassador, Jay Shannon, Rich Roenigk, by Pennfield, red beet eggs donated by R.W. Sauder Becky and Amanda Petit, and Tom Fox. SYRACUSE, NY-The 15th annual New York Farm Show promises to be winter’s biggest event for farmers. The North east’s largest indoor farm show brings some 400 agribusinesses, in five buildings, to the New York State Fairgrounds, Feb. 24-26. Show hours Thursday through Saturday are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The New York Farm Show is one-stop shopping at its best. Want to know what’s new in milking equipment and parlor design? The New York Farm Show will show you. Representatives from major equipment manufacturers can explain all there is to know about “iron.” What about new computer software for cropping, produc tion and accounting? You’ll find that, too. “New York Farm Show is a great opportunity to see differ ent manufacturers and compare what they have to offer,” says Scott Grigor, farm show mana ger. “Farmers can find out what’s happening in chemicals, jW'p^NmNG' 1 I J\AH Type* Interior/Exterior I Including Aerial Work Specialists in Sand Blasting and Spray Painting Farm Buildings, Feed Mills, Roofs, Tanks, Etc. Also Roof Coating - Water Blasting Fisher’s Painting 4056 A Newport Rd., Klnzers, PA 17535 On Rt. 772 Across From Pequea Valley School 717-768-3*39 >in maia taqia Hawaii Farm Tour The Best Escorted Vacations, You’ll Ever Find 15 Days From 9 1814 4 Islands Add $lOO for some departure cities Departs every Tuesday, January 16 through January 30, 2001 Includes airfare Hawaiian owned hotels, transfers, baggage handling. Escort flying with you from island to island, staying in OAHU, HAWAII (Kona & Hilo), MAUI & KAUAI Sightseeing includes Honolulu City Tour with Pearl Harbor, Volcano National Park, Kona Coffee Plantation Tour, Parker Cattle Ranch Museum, Orchid Nursery, Macadamian Nut Factory Tour, Wailua Riverboat Cruise, Fern Grotto, Guava Plantation, plus more as listed in brochure .'X-- Open Sunday - PPOD - Groups Welcome 1 . 800-888-8204 Our 33rd Year - Over a million satisfiedj^ustomers_ New York Farm Show Set Next Week equipment and services. It’s one stop shopping at its best.” Discover software packages to use for financial and production records, advantages of yield monitors and global positioning and advancements in corn hy brids and crop protectants. W. PITTSTON (Luzerne Co.) -Penn State Cooperative Exten sion of Luzerne County in coop eration with the NE Regional Pennsylvania Department of Health is sponsoring a two-hour training for child care providers. Cooperative Extension, Luzerne County is the approved trainer for the Department of Public Welfare. “Improving Nutrition and Managing Food Allergies in iiamaiaiaiaa Training For Child Care Providers _x%gr. NEED YOUR FARM BUILDINGS PAINTED? Let us give you a price! Write: Daniel’s Painting 637-A Georgetown Rd. Ronks, PA 17572 (or leave message) (717) 687-8262 Spray on and Brush in Painting In addition, New York Farm Show hosts special farm health and safety displays and a cap tivating array of antique tractors and farm toys. New York Farm Show is sponsored by the Northeast Equipment Dealers Association Childcare Settings” workshop will be held on Thursday, February 24, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Penn State Coopera tive Extension Office, 16 Luz erne Avenue Suite 200 in West Pittston. Participants will re ceive parent handouts and les son plans. All attending will receive 2 credit hours for Registered Child Care Providers for each session. The cost of each program is $5.00, which includes handouts. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 19. 2000-BIS and American Agriculturist Magazine. Tickets are available free from New York State farm equipment dealers or by writing New York Farm Show, P.O. Box 3470, Syracuse, NY 13220. In clude a self-addressed, stamped legal envelope with your request. Registration deadline is Feb ruary 21,2000. For information to register, call Penn State Cooperative Extension Luzerne County at 825-1701 or 602-0600. Pennsylvania Teen Second Runner-Up (Continued from Page B 12) with lengths of felt and embroi dery floss. According to MIYWW rules, only 100-percent wool or a blend with 60-percent wool in it is acceptable. Entrants are required to attach a swatch of fabric when they mail an application to the state directors. These are later available to the panel of judges. Directors for the Pennsylvania MIYWW are Jodell Antram, Somerset, and Peggy Black, Boswell. Antram reported that the Penn sylvania Sheep and Wool Grow ers Association with the Pa. De partment of Agriculture, con tributed to transportation of the contestants to Denver. Persons of any age may enter MIYWW. The four divisions are preteen, junior, senior, and adult. The preteen winner doesn’t HEATMOR OUTDOOR WOOD FURNACE Stainless Steel Food for Profit Seminars To Be Held By Penn State BEAVER (Beaver Co )-Have you considered opening a home based food business, but aren’t sure how to get started? Penn State Cooperative Extension is conducting a seminar for those who own or who are considering opening up a home-based food business. Two seminars will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at two different sites. You can choose to attend either the session in Cranberry Township conducted at the Butler County Commun ity College on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2000 or the one in Indiana County at Aging Services Inc., Oak Place Community Center, Indiana on Thursday, February 24, 2000. The cost of the pro gram is $49.00. Workshops will address what it’s like to own a food business, developing a game plan, market ing and pricing your product, laws and regulations required of a home-based food business, and food handling and safety issues. For more information, call your local Cooperative Exten sion Office at (724) 774-3003. advance. The adult winner is judged at Nationals by submit ting a photograph. “It got a little homesick,” admitted Stennett, “but it was a good experience. They don’t have Eat’N Parks.” A Kansas girl won, followed by the girl from Oklahoma. By coincidence, Stennett and her Kansas counterpart were room mates. “As soon as I saw the girl in my room, I knew she was going to win.” said the runner up. Antram said some 32 girls were in junior division competi tion and 29 were in senior com petition. With her husband, David Antram, Jodell accompanied the Pennsylvania winners to Denver. Stennett is Diane Carson’s daughter. 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