812-Lancastw Farming, Saturday, October 14, 2000
Wool Fashions Help Take Connecticut
Woman To Top At Big E Competition
Contestants in the Sheep and Wool Fashion Show anxiously await the
judges’ decision for the selection of championship honors at The Big E
in West Springfield, Mass. Pictured from left are Kathleen Rasys of
Brimfield, Mass.; Amanda Buffington of North Dighton, Mass.; Jessica
Hopkins of North Scituate, Rhode Island; and Leah Gankofskie of Wind
ham Center, Conn. The next edition of The Big E will take place Septem
ber 14-30, 2001.
Wool Champions
Announced At KILE
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Kathy D’ascenzo of Apple Hill Farm in
Spring City, won grand champion fleece
at the Keystone International Livestock
Exposition (KILE) here at the Pennsylva
nia Farm Show Complex.
Kathy Smith Farm, Ashland, Ohio,
took reserve grand champion fleece.
Breeder exhibit of five fleeces was also
awarded to Kathy Smith Farm.
In the commercial farm flock fleece cat
egory, Kathy Smith Farm received cham
pion. Reserve champion was presented to
King Merinos of Sterling, Ohio.
Kathy Smith Farm won both champion
purebred farm flock fleece and reserve.
Champion natural colored fleece was
awarded to Apple Hill Farm, Spring City.
Sheepberry Farm of Halifax, won reserve
champion natural colored fleece.
Following is a list of show placings.
KILE WOOL RESULTS
Class 801 -64's, 70's, 80's (fine) combining 1 Kathy
Breast Cancer Awareness Program
WITMER (Lancaster Co.) A Breast
Cancer Awareness Program will be con
ducted at the Witmer Fireball, Witmer, on
Oct. 17,7 p.m.
Topics discussed include risk factors for
breast cancer, value of regular check-ups,
the role of the American Cancer Society,
Smith Farm 2 Burkes Little Twenty 3 King Merinos
Class 802-60's, 62's, ('/> blood) combing 1 1 King
Mennos 2 King Mennos 3 Wayne E Beare
Class 803-56's, 58's ( 3 /< blood) combing 1 Kathy
Smith Farm 2 Kathy Smith Farm 3 Sheepberry Farm.
Class 804-So's, 54's ('/< blood) combing 1. Wayne E
Beare 2 Sheepberry Farm 3' Sheepberry Farm
Class 805-46’s, 48’s (low V< blood) combing 1
Wayne E Beare 2 Sheepberry Farm 3 Sheepberry
Farm
Class 806-Champion commercial farm flock fleece
Kathy Smith Farm.
Class 807-Reserve commercial farm flock fleece
King Mennos.
Class 808-Columbia and Comedale Apple Hill
Farm
Class 809-Merino ewe fleeces 1 Kathy Smith Farm
2 Kathy Smith Farm. 3. Little Rest Farm.
Class 810-Menno ram fleeces-1. Kathy Smith Farm
2 King Mennos. 3 Burkes Little Twenty.
Class 812-Romney 1. Gutekunst Family. 2. Gute
kunst Family.
Class 813-Montadale, Cheviot and Dorset: 1 Little
Rest Farm. 2 Little Rest Farm
Class 815-Champion purebred farm flock fleece. 1
Kathy Smith Farm.
Class 816-Reserve champion purebred farm flock
fleece-1. Kathy Smith Farm.
Class 817-Solid (60's and finer)- 1 Burkes Little
and the importance of mammography and
self breast exam methods. Questions are
encouraged. Also included in the program
is a discussion by women who survived
breast cancer.
The free program is provided by the
American Cancer Society and concerned
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass.
Hilary Sepe, a 19-year-old sopho
more at the University of Connecti
cut in Storrs, Ct., sewed and knit an
outfit that gained the admiration of
judges at the Big E Sheep and Wool
Fashion Show in West Springfield,
Mass. She won grand champion
honors for her ensemble, made of
fine, versatile wool fibers.
Sepe, competing in a competition
that features the versatility of wool
and woolen fibers, knitted a coral
colored long-sleeved sweater from a
pattern found among her mother’s
knitting books. She also sewed a
simple mid-length black wool skirt,
worn with dark shoes and stockings.
She led a natural-colored (black)
ewe, named Spotless, from her own
small flock of sheep.
The contest helps to promote
wool as a simple yet elegant fiber
that can be used in a variety of
ways. Many of the contestants have
spun wool yam from their own
sheep, then knit or crochet it into a
sweater, hat, or other garment.
Other contestants purchase woolen
fabric and then create an outfit that
can take them from casual outings
to formal gatherings.
In addition to modeling the outfit
in front of a panel of judges, the
contestants, both male and female,
lead a sheep beside them through
the ring. They are judged on gar
ment construction, poise, appropri
ateness of the garment to the indi
vidual, and the sheep itself
behavior, cleanliness, and condition
of the fleece.
Sepe is majoring in animal and
food science at UCONN. She keeps
busy as the Connecticut State FFA
president and the recording secre
tary of the UCONN Block and Bri
dle Club. She also assists first year
students in preparing animals for
the Little International Livestock
Show at UCONN.
Reserve grand champion honors
went to Jeanne Grenier, of North
Stonington, Ct. The winner of the
adult division, Grenier hand-knitted
a- charcoal gray sweater of 100 per
cent Merino wool. The sweater fea
tured a light gray yoke and has a
circle of black-faced sheep around
the yoke. The coordinating gray
wraparound skirt was made of 100
percent Pendleton wool. Grenier led
a Tunis sheep in the competition, a
sheep known for it’s light red face
and legs.
Next year’s edition of The Big E
takes place Sept. 14-30 in West
Springfield, Mass, with an outstand
ing lineup of agricultural competi
tions, exhibits and entertainment for
all ages.
Twenty. 2. Tamarack Farm 3. Tamarack Farm.
Class 818-Solid (58's and coarser). 1.
Sheepberry Farm 2. Little Rest Farm. 3.
Wayne E Beare
Class 819-Nonsolid (60's and finer): 1. Tam
arack Farm. 2. King Mennos
Class 820-Nonsolid (SB's and coarser) 1.
Apple Hill Farm. 2. Sheepberry Farm. 3.
Sheepberry Farm.
Class 821-Champion natural colored fleece:
Apple Hill Farm.
Class 822-Reserve champion natural col
ored fleece; Sheepberry Farm.
Class 824-Grand champion fleece: Apple
Hill Farm.
Class 825-Reserve grand champion fleece;
Kathy Smith Farm.
Class 826-Breeder exhibit of five fleece: 1.
Kathy Smith Farm. 2. King Merinos. 3. Tama
rack Farm.
health care workers. Refreshments
and door prizes will be distributed.
For questions, call Pat Spangler,
(717) 656-6122 (daytime) or (717)
687-7434 evenings.
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