As one who has served on the House Tourism and Recreational Development Committee and lives in Adams County wine country, it was a pleasure to participate in the third annual Celebrity Great Grape Stomp at the 2015 Pennsylvania Farm Show.

Photo: My team won the competition, stomping the most juice out of our grapes. (L-R): Penn State Nittany Lion, FOX43 reporter Chris Garrett, Carly Mack, me, ABC27 reporter Megan Healy, PennLive reporter Jewel Wicker and Sen. Rob Teplitz (D-Harrisburg).

For the second consecutive year, Rep. Dan Moul won the Celebrity Draft Horse Team Driving Event at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, outpacing 17 other participants, including nine other state legislators. The event, in honor of the late York County Sen. Mike Waugh, owner of Glen Ridge Farms, benefits the Pennsylvania Farm Show Scholarship Foundation. Moul’s team was sponsored by Adams Electric. To learn more about the event, click here. 

At the 2015 Farm Show, Rep. Moul is photographed with Miss Pennsylvania, Amanda Smith, who competed against him in the Celebrity Draft Horse Team Driving event. For the second straight year, Moul won the event, which raises money for agriculture scholarships.

Several laws contained in Pennsylvania’s new child protection package are now taking effect, including Act 153, which I sponsored, to expand the scope of background checks for individuals whose jobs and volunteer activities involve children. I attended a news conference at which the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) unveiled an electronic case management system that permits real-time sharing of data collected by state and county child welfare agencies, eliminating information gaps that have enabled child abuse cases to fall through the cracks. DHS has launched a website to help answer questions. Visit www.KeepKidsSafe.pa.gov.