Bomgardner Family Prepares For Lebanon Fair LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff ANNVILLE (Lebanon Co.) Ordinary people and little details make community fairs success ful. It’s people such as the Bom gardner family that help make Lebanon Area Fair a continuing event. Leroy helps with the mainte nance and Evelyn assists Farm Women Group 15 in the fair kitchen. Daughter Val enters sewing, baking, and fresh vege tables in the competition and Last year V 4 won first k jce in the Hershey’s Choc olate Cookie and Brownie contest. She’s hoping for a re peat this year. PARTS ♦ SERVICE « SALES • RENTAL Advantage of Bobcat 864 jj£t.The Bobcat " Tf^fAdixmtage Quarryville, PA GRUMELLI’S FARM SERV. 717-786-7318 Reading, PA BOBCAT OF READING □iv of Reading Kubota 610-926-2441 Ask for a copy of the "Discover the Bobcat Advantage" video & 32-page buyers guide sells barbecue tickets and cookies for the 4-H fundraisers. Fairgoers seldom think of the work involved in the weeklong fair, which runs from today through Aug. 5, but if the work was left undone, it would cause chaos for all. Think of the restrooms, kept in tiptop shape by Leroy, and the work required to transform the indoor expo center from live stock exhibition to banquet hall. Of course, everybody wants to buy food at the fair, which re quires hundreds of volunteers for Experience the vs. a Wheeled Skid Steer Loader See One Of These Local Dealers Bcthlthcm, PA Harrisburg, PA Martinsburg, PA CSI ENTERPRISES INC. HIGHWAY EQUIPMENT BURCHFIELDS, INC. 610-868-1481 717-564-3031 814-793-2194 Chambersburg, PA CLUGSTON AG & TURF INC 717-263-4103 [ Bobcat 1 cooking, serving, and cleanup. If people didn’t enter projects, there would be no animal exhi bitions or cooking, sewing, bak ing, and floral displays. Val, who loves to sew and cook, is doing her part to keep competition strong. Previous best of show and first-place rib bons inspires her to keep enter ing. Competition is not limited to the fair. A few weeks ago, Val has been active in 4-H sewing club for seven years, and won a gold ribbon at Fashion Revue, which qualified her to advance to state competition. Unfortunate ly, Val can not enter the win ning outfit in the Lebanon Fair because the state competition coincides with 4-H State Days. But that doesn’t mean Val won’t have a project for the Lebanon Fair. She sewed a dress for her niece that she is entering. She used the same pattern for the dress that is in state competition. Val said that the dress style follows a simple pattern. She thinks the leopard print is what appealed to the judges at the regional competition. “I’m crazy over leopard prints,” she said. The Bomgardners moved off the farm within the last year so that Leroy could devote more time to the pastorate, but their involvement in ag-related activi ties continue. Valerie, who turned 18 on the last day of school and graduated, has two part-time jobs in addi tion to helping her married sis ter, who is recuperating from cancer treatment. Although Val has shown cattle in the past, she will not be show ing this year. However, she is busy baking for the Hershey Chocolate Cookie contest. She’s hoping for the same success last year, when she won first place. • High Flow Package Available •74 HP Litilz, PA KEYSTONE BOBCAT 717-625-2800 ler Ride iction notation mt in muddy ions) Reduced Ground Pressure (3.8 Ibs/sq. inch) with the 18" tracks Ground ice Rated ig Capacity' tipping load) Mifflmburg, PA BS & B REPAIR 717-966-3756 Muncy, PA BEST LINE LEASING, INC. 717-546-8422 800-321-2378 Leroy and Evelyn Bomgardner and daughter Val re cently moved off their dairy farm, but continue to partici pate in agriculture events. Here is the recipe that she is en tering. TELEPHONE BARS 1 cup chopped dates 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup boiling water '/-> cup shortening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla !4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons baking cocoa l!/2 cups flour 1 cup chocolate chips (option- al) In a small bowl, pour boiling