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local girl vi‘sl‘lfi “ t‘ 'Bluck Africa' ;' hy lsabelOehm Lana Girodat. chosen Hanover's Queen at the Fair two years ago. has Just returned from a three month visit with friends at LhEII' 3000 acre farm in Zambia, The daughter of Clayton Girodat of R.R.2, Walkerton. Lana was raised on her tather's farm on the South Line. She graduated from Walkerton Distriv't Secondary School in tifl and went to Bralil three years ago as a Rotary Exohange Student. Acemtomed as she is to farm work. Lana found life on her friends" large Airman ranch to be vastly different. ‘ V The ranch |S located near Chipata in the southern province of Zambia and employs 200 black workers with two while Overseers, Livestock censusts mainly of poultry, but sheep. dairy and beef cattle are also raised. Shortly after her arrival last March. a large shipment of turkey eggs was received from the U K. The eggs were placed in incubators at a nearby turning after a three- th Visit; |tilth friends in his". Lana Girodai player. sofie- of the). hatchery, After the turkeys hatched. Luna spent most of her time looking after them. Lana says feed had to be Im- ported from the neigh- bouring country of Malawi. Although there was much work to be done on the (arm. there was time for sightseeing as well. Soon after her arrival. they drove to Zimbabwe where Lana saw Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. and also \‘lSllEd the town of Livingstone, named t or the famous missionary and explorer in Africa. Dr. David Livingstone Another trip took her to a protected National Game Park. Lona says the laws against poaching in national game parks are very harsh. Driving through the park she saw deer, Springbok and elephants as well as Iebra, giraffes, hippopotamus and water butfalo. all roaming free in their natural habitat. Although Lana never observed them. lions and panthers were said to roam the back acres of her friends' farm. ‘ i l E Land any: she was In t area known as "Block Afrloq" where very few white peoplt' live. The natives live in small huts and form the land around their villages. Lana say: there is a shortage of bread in the, country, and no butter at i all. Grocery stora lack all 1 luxury items and there is very nun- pork or beef. l "Women's shoes are almost impossible to buy I in Zambia." she added The few that are available are imported. Europeans in Zambia send their children away to boarding school outside the country, There are a few schools in Malawi but for boys only. ‘ Back home again on her father's farm. Lana has been busy helping wlth thel haying and training her? father's race horses. 1‘ L'ma's brother, Gene. drives at the Hanover race‘ track. Her father formerly drove, but now spends most of his time raising and training horses. Lana enjoyed her visit to Africa but says she is glad to be back in familiar‘ surroundings. '