SUN Area Dairy Princess Crowned
SELINGSGROVE (Snyder
Co.) Selena Hollenbach of
Snyder County was named SUN
Area dairy princess during Ag/
Dairy Days festivities at the Sus
quehanna Valley Mallin Selins
grove last week, edging out Alicia
Wolfe of Milton for the title.
Hollenbach won the crown
after presenting a skit, ‘Who
Wants to Be a Moo-ionaire?” a
spoof of the popular ABC game
show “Who Wants to Be a Mil
lionaire?”
Wolfe, whose skit was a take
off on the CBS series “Survivor,”
was named SUN Area alternate
dairy princess. Both skits, which
were performed as part of the
dairy princess pageant, engaged
the audience as a way of impart
ing nutritional information about
dairy products.
In addition to being named al
ternate dairy princess, Wolfe was
the recipient of the Miss Conge
niality Award, given to the con
testant who displays a courteous,
helpful, and friendly demeanor
during the three-day Ag/Dairy
Days event. The winner is select
ed by the dairy maids and misses
using a secret ballot.
Among those helping to organ
ize the pageant were Linda Fish
er, SUN Area dairy princess
committee chairwoman; Dawn
Marie, Big Country Radio, and
Jane Hawn, Boscov’s public rela
tions department. The three
served as emcees at the pageant,
which also featured a fashion
show with dairy princess royalty
modeling Boscov’s apparel.
Now that the pageant is over,
Dairy Princess Hollenbach and
Alternate Dairy Princess Wolfe
along with the 16 dairy maids
and misses will undertake the
charge of promoting the dairy in
dustry throughout Snyder,
Union, Northumberland and
Montour Counties.
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Scott and Sandy Hollenbach of
Middleburg. She works on the
family farm, Lochiel Dairy. The
youngest of three children, she
has a brother, Scott Jr., and a sis
ter, Sabrina. The Hollenbachs
own 110 dairy animals and raise
alfalfa, com and soybeans.
Hollenbach is a 2001 graduate
of Selinsgrove Area High School.
During her senior year she served
as Selinsgrove Area High School
FFA president and SUN Area
FFA secretary. She has partici
pated in public speaking contests
and has been honored with the
following degrees, titles and
awards: Greenhand Degree,
Chapter SUN Area Degree, Star
Farmer of the Chapter, North
Central Regional Star in the Area
of Agriculture Production, FFA
Keystone Degree, and the Dekalb
Award for Outstanding Senior in
Agriculture. Her supervised Agri
cultural Experience projects in
clude a dairy herd, market lambs,
beef finishing, and on-farm work
experience.
In addition on working on the
family farm, Hollenbach helps
milk at Red Bank Meadows
Farm, Middleburg. She also en
joys showing and judging dairy
animals.
Wolfe, the daughter of Arthur
Wolfe and Tammy Stine, is the
oldest of five children; she has
two sisters, Melissa and Ashley,
and two brothers. Miles and Do
minick. Her family’s farm. Plum
side Dairy, is home to 250 dairy
animals, of which 200 are milked.
Wolfe will be a senior at Dan
ville High School this fall.
For the second year she will
serve as president of the Danville
High School FFA Chapter. She
has earned the Star Greenhand
Degree and the Chapter Degree.
She is also active in 4-H.
Her interests include showing
dairy cattle and playing softball
and soccer. She is employed part
time at Dunkin’ Donuts.
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Judges for the pageant in
cluded Fred Lovell, member of
ADADC Board of Directors Dis
trict 19 and father of the 1980
Lycoming County dairy princess;
Arlene Wilbur, former dairy
farmer, mother of former PA
state dairy princess, and the for
mer associate director of PDPPS;
and Ed Poorman, owner of Hori
zons Unlimited, where he pro
vides financial consulting and tax
services.
Special guests at the pageant
included outgoing SUN Area
Dairy Princess and current Penn
sylvania State Dairy Princess Me
linda Wolfe; Pennsylvania State
Alternate Dairy Princess Heidi
Miller, who provided entertain
ment; PDPPS Executive Director
Junia Isiminger; and the reigning
dairy princesses from Crawford
and Dauphin counties.
Outgoing SUN Area Princess
Melinda Wolfe traveled more
than 5,000 miles in Pennsylvania
this past year to promote the
dairy industry. Within the Snyd
er, Union, Northumberland, and
Montour counties alone, she at
tended IS non-farm meetings
and 17 farm meetings, made
more than 250 school presenta
tions, participated in 15 other
special events, and was featured
in 88 newspaper articles and 132
radio spots. Nonetheless, she con
tinued to attend college on a full
time basis during the past year
and recorded a perfect grade
point average. She plans to be
come a teacher.
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From left, Selena Hollenbach, Alicia Wolfe, Melinda
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While the transfer of the SUN
dairy princess crown was the
highlight of Ag/Dairy Days, sev
eral other festivities took place
over the three-day event. Open
ing day, June 21, included recog
nition of area 4-H leaders, musi
cal entertainment by KJ
Reimensnyder, and the judging
of milk carton sculptures.
Friday, June 22, featured a
7-foot-tall sundae, constructed
from ice cream and toppings pro
vided by Turkey Hill. The sundae
was made with 135 gallons of ice
cream, 10 gallons of chocolate
fudge, 25 pounds of pecans, and
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Special Hours: Thurs. 8-8; Fri. 8-8; Sat. 8-2
5 gallons of cherries. Dairy prin
cess royalty, along with members
of the local Future Farmers of
America chapters, served 2,500
free portions of the giant sundae
to the public Saturday, June 23,
featured a pedal tractor pull for
children. In addition, Swineford
National Bank held its annual
Scooper Bowl, with proceeds to
be donated to the local 4-H Foun
dation. There also were samples
of milk punch, along with a vari
ety of dairy and agriculture relat
ed displays.
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