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Betty Deitz, 86, of Somerset, stands with her massive ele-phant ear plants that seem to have benefitted from the wetsummer. Betty said that she measures the plants with a yardstick, and a few of the leaves have outgrown her measuringdevice. Betty digs the plants out of the ground each year atthe first frost, and moves them to her garage during the win-ter. Betty has been gardening for over 25 years. She said thatthis is the largest the plants have ever grown in her backyard.

‘It blesses many people’: Venisonsharing program remains popular

BYMICHELLEGANASSIMICHELLEG@DAILYAMERICAN.COM

Last year 500 pounds ofground venison was donatedto needy Somerset Countyfamilies through the HuntersSharing the Harvest program

The program, started in1991, allows hunters to donatedeer harvests to feed needypeople free of charge. RogerRaley, owner of Raley’s Cus-tom Butchering in Somerset,one of the two sites designat-ed for Somerset County deer,said the program continuesto grow and it fed a lot of peo-ple last year. Thomas SmokedMeats in Richland is also list-ed as a Somerset County pro-cessor.

“It blesses many people,”

Raley said. “Ground meat isuniversal. They can use it formany different things.”

Raley said the deer he pro-cesses goes to the SomersetCounty Mobile Food Bank fordistribution across the coun-ty.

Raley said food bank offi-cials have told him that whenthe choice is between beefand deer meat, many familiesrequest venison.

“I think because it is sup-posed to be healthier,” hesaid. “That is just my think-ing.”

He said one misconceptionis that there is a fee. The pro-gram pays for the processing.He said the first year therewas a $10 fee.

(See VENISON, A9)

BREACHALERT

BillHunsberg-er’s Farm inDavidsvilleis one thatwill receiveaid fromthe federalgovern-ment afterPresidentDonaldTrump an-nounced hewould havea bailout ofAmericanfarmers.

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Somerset County farmers heard the newslast month about aid that would be given tothem and their peers across the country aspart of President Donald Trump’s effort toalleviate economic hardship in the Ameri-can agricultural sector.

Some farmers in the area are recipientsof it.

“It helped,” said Glen Stoltzfus, who ownsPennwood Farms in Berlin. “But my firstthought is we’d rather have trade. But it’shelp and we won’t turn it down. Farmersdon’t like to stick their hand out. It’s hardto take. But when something like this comesthrough we think about why we can’t have amarket to support us rather than this type ofaid. I understand why he’s doing it. I don’tthink there’s a farmer out there that will sayI won’t take it.”

The Trump administration is providingup to $12 billion in emergency relief fundsfor American farmers, with roughly $6 bil-lion in an initial round. The three-prongedplan includes $4.7 billion in payments tocorn, cotton, soybean, dairy, pork and sor-ghum farmers, according to the AssociatedPress.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue an-nounced last month that soybean growerswill get the largest checks, at $1.65 per bushelfor a total of $3.6 billion. China is the world’sleading buyer of American soybeans, pur-chasing roughly 60 percent of the U.S. crop.But since Beijing imposed a 25 percent tariffon soybean imports, prices have plunged.

Stoltzfus said the help is too little, too latefor some.

(See TRADE, A2)

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Death Notices

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The following arefunerals that

will be held in thearea:

Pamela SueKroon, 65, Ber-lin, died Sept.27. By Pam’s re-quest, there willbe no viewing orservice. Arrange-ments entrustedto Deaner Funer-al Home, Berlin.DeanerFuneral-sAndCremations.com.

Melvin D.Shaffer, 91, Hyaso-ta, died Sept. 28.Viewing from 6 to8 p.m. Monday atHoffman FuneralHome & Crema-tion Services, 109Church Road, Da-vidsville, wherea service will beheld 11 a.m. Tues-day.

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(Continued from A1)For him it will be beneficial, but

it’s not going to turn his financialsituation around. Nonetheless,he’s grateful for assistance.

“Anytime you’re having troublecash flowing your business andthere is an opportunity to increaseyour income, that’s going to help,”he said. “In our situation, it’ll helpfor a month or two and that’s aboutit. We’re going to have to wait andsee how much it’s going to be.That has yet to be determined. Butwe’re certainly thankful for it. But

it’s not exactly what we wanted.”Bill Hunsberger, a Davidsville

farmer who raises corn, soybeans,wheat and hay, said the bailoutisn’t going to compensate for theloss of money brought on by theretaliatory tariffs. He also said tax-payers would have to foot the bill.

“I’d rather have the marketwe lost. I don’t think it’s fair,”Hunsberger said. “Why should tax-payers pay for that? Why don’t wejust have a market for soybeans?”

Mark O’Neill, spokesman forthe Pennsylvania Farm Bureau,

said the money sent to eligiblefarmers should have a negligibleimpact on the state’s agriculturalindustry.

“Farmers, who are eligible toreceive some aid under the trademitigation package would muchrather earn their money throughfair and free trade agreementswith foreign countries,” O’Neillsaid. “The reality is that any pay-ments received by farmers will fallwell short of making up for thelosses they have incurred as partof the so-called ‘trade war.’”

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CAMPBELLValentine P. “Val” Camp-bell Jr., 80, of Somerset,passed on Sept. 27, 2018,at his home. Born June16, 1938, in Pittsburgh,he is a son of the lateValentine and Matilda(Czepial) Campbell. Heis also preceded in deathby his brother, WilliamCampbell. Val is survivedby his wife of 57 years,Virginia (Kuglmaier)Campbell; children: Val J.Cambell (Jackie) of Som-erset, Brenda Judy (Tim)of Markleton, Linda Pugh(Dave) of Stoystown,Karen Strother (Darrel)of Falls Church, VA,and Robert Campbell,of Somerset; grandchil-dren: Rose, Lance, Bran-don, Ginny, Kassie, Bren-nan, Lorynn and Josh;great-grandchildren: Mia,Easton, Landon, Layne,Mya, Belle and Collin;and sisters, Mary AnnArndt and Kathy Eftha-midas, both of Greentree.Val is a veteran of theU.S. Air Force, and wasthe longtime owner/op-erator of Val’s Carpet inSomerset. He was a mem-ber of the Roof GardenChorus, delivered Mealson Wheels, and playedin the Industrial GolfLeague for many years.He was a member of St.Peter’s Church in Somer-set where he sang in thechoir. Friends will be re-ceived from 10 a.m. until 1p.m. Monday at Miller Fu-neral Home and Crema-tory, Somerset. A funeralMass will then be held at 1p.m. at St. Peter’s Church,Father Daniel O’Neill cel-ebrant. Interment willbe at Somerset Coun-ty Memorial Park. TheSomerset County HonorGuard will salute Val atthe funeral home prior tothe mass at 12:30 p.m.. Toleave a condolence, pleasevisit www.millerfuneral-homeandcrematory.com.

FIKEDolores Elaine Fike, 85,of Fort Hill, PA, went tobe with the Lord on Sept.26, 2018. Born Dec. 30,1932, in Confluence, PA,a daughter of GenevieveMcClintock Mitchell andLawrence Ray Mitchell.Preceded in death by par-ents; husband Robert of61 years; sisters: Lois Boy-anowski, Bonnie Wattsand brother Earl Mitch-ell. Dolores is survived byher children: Debra Mow-ry, Rhonda and husbandRay Woods, and Gordonand wife Sharon Fike;grandchildren: Dee Bit-tner, Darla Young, TeresaMallory, Bobby Bennett,Stacy Stillwagon, SondraKlinkner, Rebecca Gra-ham, Jessica Woy, Heath-er Szarka, Tyler Fike;and numerous great-and great-great-grand-children. Dolores was alongtime member of theAmerican Legion Auxil-iary and was an LPN atSomerset Hospital andSomerset State Hospi-tal. Dolores loved bakingand giving those treatsto friends and relatives.Dolores was a member ofSilbaugh United Method-ist Church. To honor Do-lores’ wishes, a memorialservice will be announcedand held at a later date.

More than 20 million peoplewatched Kavanaugh hearing

BY DAVID BAUDERAP MEDIA WRITER

NEW YORK (AP) —More than 20 million peo-ple watched Thursday’sgripping testimony bySupreme Court nomineeBrett Kavanaugh and thewoman who accused himof a sexual assault thatallegedly occurred in the1980s, Christine BlaseyFord, on six televisionnetworks.

Meanwhile, the polit-ical standoff continued,with broadcasters in-terrupting regular pro-gramming for Friday’slast-minute twist: anagreement engineered byArizona Sen. Jeff Flakefor the FBI to conduct aone-week investigationof the charges.

Ford told the SenateJudiciary Committeethat she’s 100 percentcertain that Kavanaughgroped her drunkenlyand tried to take off herclothes at a high schoolparty. Kavanaugh, in im-passioned testimony, saidhe’s 100 percent certain

that it didn’t happen.It’s likely that more

than the 20.4 million peo-ple reported by Nielsenon Friday watched it.The company was count-ing average viewershipon ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN,Fox News Channel andMSNBC. Figures weren’timmediately availablefor other networks thatshowed it, includingPBS, C-SPAN and the FoxBusiness Network. AndNielsen usually has sometrouble measuring peo-ple who watch in offices.

To put that in perspec-tive, that’s an audiencesize similar to that for aplayoff football game orthe Academy Awards.

Fox News Channel,whose opinion hostshave strongly backed Ka-vanaugh’s appointment,

led all networks withan average of 5.69 mil-lion viewers during theall-day hearing, Nielsensaid.

ABC was second with3.26 million viewers. CBShad 3.1 million, NBC had2.94 million, MSNBC had2.89 million and CNNhad 2.52 million, Nielsensaid.

Interest remainedhigh after the hearing.Nielsen said 11.8 millionpeople watched cableshows hosted by SeanHannity, Rachel Maddowor Chris Cuomo at 9 p.m.ET on Thursday, whichlikely put a dent in view-ership for the fall pre-mieres of broadcast net-work prime-time shows.

Flake was the centralfigure in Friday’s drama.After the moderate Re-publican’s office issued astatement that he wouldbe voting in favor of Ka-vanaugh, he was caughtbe CNN and CBS camer-as Friday morning beingshouted at by protestersas he tried to ride an ele-vator to a Judiciary Com-

mittee hearing.He stood with eyes

downcast for severalminutes as he was be-rated, televised live onCNN. “I’m standing righthere in front of you,”one woman said. “Doyou think he’s telling thetruth to the country?”

He was told, “you havepower when so manywomen are powerless.”

Flake said that hisoffice had issued a state-ment and said, before theelevator closed, that hewould have more to sayat the committee hear-ing.

The cable and broad-cast networks were allcovering live hours later,when the Judiciary Com-mittee was to vote to ad-vance Kavanaugh’s nom-ination to the full Senatefor a vote. But Flake saidhe would only do so withthe understanding thatthe FBI would look intothe allegations againstthe nominee for the nextweek, which minorityDemocrats have beenurging.

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