Sam Hayes Jr., Pennsylvania ag secretary, shares a light
moment eating ice cream dished out by Franklin County
Dairy Princess, Mindy Martin.
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) - The Pennsylvania dairy
industry’s advertising efforts
with ties to June Dairy Month
promotion reverberated across
the commonwealth, Wednesday
noon, when officials of milk pro
motion groups built a giant 8-
foot ice cream sundae on the
capitol steps and invited urban
radio and television station ce
lebrities to participate in a
“Milk Mustache” contest.
Sponsored by the Pennsylva
nia Dairy Promotion Program,
the American Dairy Association
and Dairy Council Mid East,
and the American Dairy Associ
ationairy Council Middle Atlan
tic, 126 gallons of Green’s
premium vanilla ice cream were
used, along with 10 gallons of
Hershey’s chocolate syrup, 5
gallons of Hershey’s classic
carmel syrup, and 5 gallons of
chopped nuts from Zimmer-
Huge Sundae Built On Capitol Steps
man’s Nut Company. Then they
dished it out free to anyone who
happened to be in the area while
the recorders and TV cameras
were rolling for the six o’clock
news and the evening editions of
the newspapers and talk shows
Thursday morning.
State Agriculture Secretary,
Sam Hayes Jr., brought greet
ings from Gov. Tom Ridge, and
read a proclamation officially
recognizing June as dairy
month. Richard Waybright,
chairman of the Pennsylvania
program, accepted the procla
mation on behalf of the dairy in
dustry. Many of the county
dairy princesses and their coor
dinators were on hand to help
make the sundae and help to
scoop ice cream.
Debra Summerall, industry
relations manager and spok
esperson for PDPP, said the
state’s dairy farmers work dili
gently 365 days a year to provide
.consumers with a fresh supply
Dairy industry royalty gather on the capitol steps with Pennsylvania Ag Secretary,
Samuel Hayes Jr. to help build a giant ice cream sundae and dish out 126 gallons of ice
cream to Harrisburg residents. Dairy princesses are from left, Bobbi Joe Dressier, Juni
ata princess; Heather Bomgardner, York ambassador; Becky Kilgore, state alternate
princess; Ashley Carper, Huntingdon former princess; Connie Snare, Huntingdon prin
cess; Sec. Hayes; Mindy Martin, Franklin princess; Holly Miller, Dauphin alternate prin
cess; Heidi Miller,. Dauphin princess; Angela Sollenberger, Blair alternate princess;
Diana Bigelow, Blair princess; Lori Connelly, state dairy princess; and Elizabeth Young,
Lancaster alternate princess. Photo by Everett Newsmonger, editor
of milk and quality dairy prod
ucts. “By celebrating June Dairy
Month, we are honoring the
dairy industry and giving citi
zens of Pennsylvania an oppor
tunity to thank dairy farmers”,
she said.
Milk is the official Pennsylva
nia beverage and the state has
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9,900 dairy farms that produce
10.85 billion pounds or 1.36 bil
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The state ranks 3rd in the nation
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of cheese. This capitol steps
event is part of many efforts
across the nation this month, to
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