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Cook, Baker, Fund Raiser
Granger of the Year Harold Steeley, Ottsvllle, left, has helped prepare many suppers
as a Plumsteadville Grange #1738 member. In center is wife Ruth and their son
Donald. Photo by Andy Andrews
State College Hosts Pa.
Community Forestry Conference
MICHELLE RANCK
Lancaster Farming Staff
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) Forestry and land-use
issues must be at the forefront of 1
community planning, according
to several speakers last week at
the two-day ninth annual for
estry conference here at the
Atherton Hotel.
“We are a very grass-roots or
ganization,” said Ben Tresselt
Jr., president of the Pennsylva-
Glickman
Announces
Handout To
Dairy Farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. Re
sponding to persistent and his
torically low milk prices, U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Dan
Glickman recently told Ameri
ca’s dairy farmers that signifi
cant new assistance is on the
way.
Glickman said the agriculture
appropriations bill that Presi
dent Clinton is expected to sign
provides an estimated $667 mil
lion to help dairy farmers cope
with the low milk prices, which
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Four Sections
nia Urban and Community For
estry Council, sponsors of the
conference.
The council, a volunteer or
ganization, assists Pennsylvania
communities and volunteer
groups in managing and main
taining trees and natural re
sources. More than 100 forestry
representatives attended the
event.
Featured speakers presented
topics such as urban sprawl,
Set Clocks
Back Tonight
It’s autumn, so it’s time to
“fall” back to return to
Eastern Standard Time,
which begins tomorrow.
The time has returned to
change from Daylight Saving
time .back to Eastern
Standard Time, providing
fewer hours of daylight. We
“fall back’’ one hour at
1 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 29.
So turn your clocks Jmfck
one hour before to
bed tonight. Remember,
animal feeding and milking
schedules need to be adjusted
accordingly.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 28, 2000
zoning laws, open space, plan
ning for a community forest, dis-
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Building a positive image for the Lancaster County Poultry Association is its board of
directors, from left, Nelson Groff, president; Jay Shannon, vice president; Andy Brad
ford, secretary; and Becky Petit, treasurer. Turn to page A 29 to read about the associa
tion’s annual banquet Tuesday evening. Photo by Lou Ann Good
$32.00 Per Year
Granger Of Year’s
Work Emphasizes Volunteerism
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
CARLISLE (Cumberland
Co.) In 1986, Granger of the
Year Harold Steeley, Ottsville,
said he sold the cows on his
dairy and “went to work.”
From the stallbarn to the
kitchen, that is.
The 55-year Pomona, state,
and national Grange member
“retired” from dairying, which
had been his life for more than
40 years, to not only work part
time at Moyer’s Chicks Inc,
Quakertown, but to put on the
apron strings.
According to Bill Steel, state
Grange Master, Steeley “is a
cook one of those things I like
to do,” he told about 300 Grange
members gathered Monday eve
ning for the annual banquet.
Steeley’s specialty: oyster
Lamont and Leigh Ann Ennis, and daughter Sierra, N.Y.,
raise Braunvieh cattle. See pages A 32 and A4O for a report
on the Braunvieh breed. Photo courtesy of the Ennis family
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bakes. “Oyster dinners,” said
Steel. “We need more of them.”
All in a good cause, of course.
Steeley’s cooking has gone a
long way to raise money for
Grange charities.
Steeley, married to Ruth, was
honored Monday evening with
the coveted Granger of the Year
honor at the 128th edition of the
Pennsylvania State Grange
Convention at the Clarion (for
merly Embers) Hotel in Carlisle.
Since becoming a member of
Junior Grange at the age of 5,
Steeley has served on the Plum
steadville Junior Grange #37
until he was 16. Afterward, he
served as master three times of
the Plumsteadville Grange
#1738.
Steeley, who also served as
Bucks County Pomona Grange
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