812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 23, 2000 4-H Fair Good Weather, Good Fun! At the Dela ware County 4-H Fair Aug. 11 and 12, winners were honored with ribbons for horse back riding, vegetables, poultry, sheep, pigs, demonstrations, showmanship, exhibits, posters, and fun contests for stinky shoes and watermelon seed spitting. In spite of the intermittent showers of the weekend, attend ance was estimated at an all time high of 1,000 for the Friday eve ning and Saturday event. Educa tional exhibits on “1% Milk,” and home composting as well as topics from the Department of Environmental Protection were included for the first time. All visitors enjoyed crafts and games sponsored by various 4-H clubs. 4-H members in the lamb and hog program are eligible to win in two categories, once for show manship, which evaluates how well the member prepares and presents the animal to the judge, and once for the animal itself on the expected quality of meat it will produce. The members are divided by seniority and the ani mals are divided by weight class es. Frank Videon of Newtown Square once again supported 4-H by purchasing the champion hog and lamb at record prices and donating the meat back to 4-H for use at the annual recognition dinner. The lamb showmanship cham pions were as follows: Holly Gin grich of Drexel Hill, experienced junior showman (for the second year in a row); David Murphy of Kennett Square, experienced sen ior showman; Caitlyn Oleykow ski of Upper Darby, novice jun ior showman; and Ryan O’Keefe of Havertown, novice senior showman (for the second year in a row). The champion lambs were #l7 (lightweight) owned by David Murphy of Kennett Square and Noah St. Amour of Havertown and #lB (heavy weight) owned by Caitlyn Oley kowski of Upper Darby and Jennifer Williams of Walling ford. The pig showmanship champi ons were Neal Bozentka of New town Square, experienced junior showman; Emilie Davis of Springfield, experienced senior showman; Therese Salvucci of Broomall, novice junior show man; and Shawna McDermott of Havertown, novice senior show man. The champion pig was #l4, owned by Ryan O’Keefe of Hav ertown, and the reserve champi on pig was #9, owned by Laura Ploeg of Newtown Square and Shawna McDermott of Hav ertown. Jane Nyiri, a 4-H board mem ber who teaches in the Chester Upland School District, judged educational presentations, exhi bits, and posters presented by 4-H members. Ben Reimold of Havertown received champion for educational posters about 4-H projects completed in the last year. Exhibits of completed proj ects such as woodworking, em bryology and internet explora tion were judged and Lydia Cannon of Glen Riddle was awarded the champion ribbon. Six different project demonstra tions were presented to a live au dience on Saturday, with four participants receiving blue rib bons. 4-H members who participate in performing chores for the horses owned by 4-H had the op portunity to compete in groom ing and showmanship and a number of competitive games that demonstrated riding skills. The champion was Danielle Breese of Media. The reserve was Emilie Davis of Springfield. 4-H members and nonmem bers, including adults, exhibited champion vegetables. 4-H junior experienced champion was again Aaron Murphy of Kennett Square; junior first-year champi on was Michael Africa of Ard more. 4-H senior experienced champion was David Murphy of Kennett Square and senior first year champion was Jennifer Wil liams of Wallingford. Adult open vegetable champi on was Bonnie Magliochetti of Media and youth open vegetable champion was Patrick Africa of Ardmore. Michael Africa won the open flower contest. Poultry winners included champion White Leghorn Neal Bozentka of Newtown Square, and champion Red Sex Sal, Dan iel Zecca of Clifton Heights. The watermelon seed-spitting contest was won by adult, Keith Bryan of State College (and live stock judge for the fair); and teen, Rob Davis of Springfield. The Silent Auction allowed visitors to make winning bids and take home items donated by members and businesses. More than $1,200 was raised with this effort. got mi Fairgoers Scoop It Up At Delaware Fair ware State Fair Ice Cream Scooping Contest. Selected by random, each constantant had one minute to scoop as many scoops of ice cream on a cone as possible. The au dience voted on the winners with the tallest and neatest cones. Prizes included “got milk?” hats, T-shirts, and aprons. Members talked about what kind of flow ers they were going to plant at the Harford Fairgrounds. Lead er Mrs. Durren talked about making “ugly quilts” for the homeless people. The next meeting will be at the Harford Fairgrounds for planting flowers and making ugly quilts. North Jackson Ag 4-H Club The North Jackson Ag 4-H Club has had a very busy year so far. This season they conducted a bowling party at Valley Lanes as well as many picnics. Reports were given on the dairy judging contest, horse camp, and Camp Brule. Throughout the past months, demonstrations were given at the meetings by Kyle Miller on cycling, Kendal Miller and Heather Pease on dog grooming and training, Beth Giangrieco on her trip to Stone Mountain, Ga. and Chelsea Saam on fish ing lures. Other demonstrations in cluded Lyle Foster on Lego Ro bots, Mindy Stanton on ceram ics, Mike Pipatone on 4-wheelers, Nick Canzoneri on grave rubbings, Brittany Ze browksi on her ring-necked dove, Maria Elena Canzoneri on her rabbit and Aaron Onyon on his experience at livestock camp. At their most recent meeting at Joe and Sandy Pavelski’s home, Jessica Salada gave a re port on the 4-H Vermont trip. 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