—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 1972
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4-H Promotion Week Program Set in York County
Editor’s Note: The following
report was prepared by Galen R.
Kopp, assistant York County ag
agent. While the article describes
4-H Promotion Week activities in
York County, much of the in
formation fits 4-H work in other
areas as well.
Throughout the week of March
17-24, York, Adams, Franklin and
Cumberland counties will ob
serve 4-H Promotion Week.
The two main goals of this
promotion week will be to expose
the general public to the aims of
4-H and to enroll as many new
members as possible between the
ages of 9 and 19.
This is the first time that such a
week has been planned in York
County. The theme for this week
in York County is “4-H for all.”
To organize the events of the
week, the York County 4-H
Council, which is composed of
older 4-H members and which
sponsors and suggests many
activities for the entire county,
set up a committee of several
people.
A number of events and ac
tivities that were decided upon
are as follows: Throughout the
week, 4-H members from York
County will appear on “Noonday
on 8” (WGAL TV, Lancaster) and
give short talks on various ac
tivities that are in the 4-H
program.
It was also decided that spot
announcements will be sent over
local radio stations and that
articles will appear in many of
the York County newspapers
every day of the week.
Placemats, which promote 4-H,
will be distributed in various
restaurants throughout the
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county. Posters, advertising 4-H
Promotion Week, will be sent to
the various clubs which are to
distribute them throughout the
local community. Several
exhibits will also be set up at
selected locations in the county.
On Saturday, March 25, which
is not officially in the Promotion
Week, clean-up drives will take
place. Each of the approximately
40 dubs, with a total membership
of nearly 2,000 members in York
county, are to pick up litter along
several of the highways in the
club’s locality. Several of these
clubs will then build an object out
of the cans and litter and place
their constructed object in
selected areas in the county,
most notably, the square in York.
Also, on that date, an inter
county activity will be held in the
evening at the York County 4-H
Center, a new $lBO,OOO budding
which has been financed by
donations, cookie sales, flower
bulb sales, sub sales and other
fund raising activities.
A fund raising activity is also
scheduled to begin during 4-H
Promotion Week. York County 4-
H members will be selling 20-30
gallon trash bags at a very low
price. This money will be used to
help pay off the debt on the 4-H
Center building.
“4-H.for all” is a good slogan
because it is true.
A number of years ago, it was
thought that a prospective
member either had to have an
animal or be willing to cook or
sew. The image of 4-H has
changed and its membership has
changed.
Today, only about one third of
the four million 4-H members,
Making plans for 4-H Promotion Week in Baby Beef Club; Galen R. Kopp, assistant
York and neighboring counties March 17- York County ag agent, and Miss Sharon
24 are: left to right, Dale E. Stough Jr, 108 Snyder, Etters RDI, of the Newberrytown
Broad St, Hellam, of the Pennsylvania 4-H Club and chairman of Promotion Week.
nationwide, live on farms. The In the agricultural project ching, create with fabrics,
remaining two thirds come from areas, a person can choose from knitting, food preservation, home
urban or rural, non-farm regions. Held corn, tomatoes, flower and decorating, home furnishings and
4-H has added many new vegetable gardening, dairy, beef, a variety of food-projects,
projects, in addition to animals lamb, horses, rabbits, capon, and Miscellaneous projects in
and home economics projects. In tractor. elude: automotive, pets, electric,
York County, there are a variety In the home economics area, entomology, forestry, geology,
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