Joe Neustadter of McCaskey High School checks a cut
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Mitchell, left, Mount Joy vo-ag teacher. The school is
working with rooting pyracantha, yews, and Japanese holly.
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Putting a rail in a wood fence which are: Jim Kerr, horticulture teacher, and
Vie FFA students built at Brownstown Dave Dombach, left.
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tractor and identification of
greenhouse materials as ex
amples of types of programs in
which the new Chapter will he
interested.
Work At Brownstown
At Brownstown, plans include
developing a two hole golf
couise outside the school in an
other year or two after neces
sary equipment is available.
Included will be experimental
turf grass plots, according to
Jim Keir, horticulture teacher.
Kerr also is looking forward
to planning outdoor landscape
gardens. He noted that the
school has several acres with
which to work.
Brownstown students already
have built a large planter from
scratch in the mam lobby of the
school It includes hardy plants,
since, the lobby is unheated, and
a dry wall of stone.
Kerr’s course includes land
scape horticultiue and power
mechanics, including the re
building of small engines, and
turf giass technology Kerr ex
plained, “Excellent job oppor
tunities are available in sales of
turfgrass equipment, chemicals, Gary Shelly, Manheim Central High School, a horticui
fertilizer and seed. Golf courses ture student at Mount Joy Vo-Tech school, is shown this
and Country Clubs need trained week watering ivy in the school’s greenhouse. The ivy will
technicians. Graduates with out- be planted outside the school this spring
standing achievement in this
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program and good grades in
their other subjects are well
prepared for a two year college
baining program in turfgiass
management ”
Dick Wood, who taught last
yeai at Solanco High School, is
the Brownstown iloncultuie
teachei He estimates that at
least 30 to 35 acies in Lancaster
County aie “aheady under
glass” and the business is grow
ing
The complete list of officers
in the Plants Unlimited Chapter
at Mount Joy ia as follows Bob
Mulhellem, president, Sue Bair,
vice president, Roberta Tioy,
Secretary; Gary Shelly, treasur
er. Jeff Morrison, sentinel; Lee
Ciaybill, Chaplain, and LuAnn
Reismger, reporter
The Tevoca Chapter
officers are - Pat Bressman,
president, Glenn Brubaker, vice
president, Pam Wood, secietaiy;
Pat Arndt, treasuiei; Glenn
Livengood, sentinel, and Nancy
Stober, reporter.
The p.m. Chapter officers aie;
Mike Gehman, president; Sue
Waige, vice piesident, Nina
Smith, secietaiy, Dale Arment,
tieasurei; Mai lon Stauffer, sen
tinel. and Cheiyl Winter, le
poi ter.
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