Melissa Nann Burke: September 2008 Archives

Peek-a-Boo

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The York Fair hosts many an adorable baby animal. My favorite has spindly legs and a baby bottle bigger than his head.

At Toyota Arena, a popular pen near livestock judging Ring No. 1 holds a snorting calf named Boo, a 3-month-old, chestnut-colored buffalo (American Bison, technically).

Like Buffy (in a file photo, above, with owner Tupper Sverduk), Boo comes from Forge Hill Farms, a beef farm in East Manchester Township. Visitors can pat his woolly coat, and, at 6 p.m. daily, take turns holding Boo's 2.5-pint bottle as he sucks down the milk.

Bison calves are usually weaned at 7 months. The animals can live to be 30, but those raised for meat are slaughtered before age 2 for tenderness.

Worship at the fair

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guy.JPG The annual York Fair Celebration of Faith is planned for 11 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 7) at the grandstand.

As in past years, those who attend the multi-denominational service will be admitted free to the fair that day only.

The praise band from First Presbyterian Church of York will provide music, as well as Odessa Stevenson. Members of the York/Adams County Boy Scouts will read Scripture and serve as ushers.

The speaker will be the Rev. Guy Dunham (at right), the new executive director of the York County Council of Churches.

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