—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1972
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Miss McCartney Helps with Brazilian Festa
Editor’s Note: Miss Davids
McCartney, Chester Springs,
Chester County, is an In
ternational Farm Youth Ex
change (IFYE) delegate
assigned to a Youth Development
Project (YDP) in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. She is assisting in the
development and expansion of 4-
H type programs. Following is
her report on “mini-clubs”:
How time is flying! I wanted to
write a letter about the Christ
mas and New Year festivities in
Brazil, but here it is February!
I’ve been really busy with the
youth of Pompeia. It is summer
vacation from school, so they
have more time now. This has
been both an advantage and a
disadvantage, though. I’ve
started to work with the Volun
teer leaders of a group of poor
children in town. But as most of
them are teacher, it is their
summer holiday, and they are
busy with traveling and other
activities.
The group called SIM (Service
de mtegracao dos menores) was
started by the judge in town to
give the poor boys something
useful and beneficial to do. They
are divided into three groups.
About 10 of them have a garden
and sell their vegetables to the
townfolk. There are 15 shoeshine
boys, and 20 that work cleaning
the streets. This last group is paid
by the borough.
Since the school has morning,
afternoon, and evening sessions,
the boys are required to study at
one session, and then they can
work during the other hours of
the day.
Five meetings have been
scheduled for the group leaders,
ONCE
ACROSS THE FIELD
DOES IT
P. L ROHRER & BRO., INC.
SMOKETOWN, PA.
Miss Davida McCartney
Chester County IFYE
but because of the holidays, at
tendance has been poor.
Since my specialty is in the
home economics line, and the
kids are all boys, I had planned to
work with the leaders with
special emphasis on organization
and recretaion. At our
recreational meeting so far the
turnout was poor becuase they
never get the chance for group
recreation other than soccer.
In the rural area of Pompeia
where I live, I’ve started a
“mini-club” with the help of
Nanaera Matsushita, my neigh
bor. Naneara returned home
from her IFYE stay in Ohio and
Connecticut in Novemeber, and
had a “mini visit” with my
family just before she left the
U.S.A. She is a really enthusiastic
partner.
Phone Lane. 397-3539
Through the local school, we
invited the students, their friends
and parents to an organizational
meeting. About eight parents and
20 kids from the ages of eight to
sixteen showed up.
Nanaera explained the ob
jectives: learning through a
gardening project, and being and
working and playing together.
The parents seemed to un
derstand, and agreed to let their
children come. But an 8 a.m.
Sunday meeting was the only
suitable time that they could
agree upon.
At the first meeting there were
12, from two Japanese and about
five Brazilian families.
But since then, the weather has
really been against us and few
have ventured out. They have
long walks, and it isn’t pleasant
in the rain and mud. However, we
did plant some vegetables and
start an experiment to observe
germination and growth of seeds
under various conditions.
I plan to work in some general
information on nutrition along
with the study of the plants. The
members haven’t yet chosen a
name for the group, but I call it a
“mini-club” because of their
ages.
The typical 4-H or Agricultural
Club here has members between
the ages of 18 and 28.
And now for the latest activities
of the 4-H Club of Mizuho with
which I am most closely
associated.
Yesterday was a big day for
them. From the first meeting I
attended in June, planning for
their Festa da Sodinah (Soda
Party) has been an item of
business. Beer, coke, and soda
festas are a common way for
groups to make money.
They sell mugs made specially
with the'name of the club and
type of festa on them. The
patrons buy the mug, then can
drink as much soda as they want.
The group makes its profit by
selling other drinks, potato chips,
and Brazilian festa food.
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But the a club of 16 members, it
means a lot of work.
They spent four whole days
walking around the town in
groups, selling the mugs. The two
days before festa the girls made
all the food, and the boys but
chered a cow for the churrasco.
Churrasco is meat seasoned for a
day in a mixture of wine, water,
oil, and various seasonings, and
then roasted on a spit over a fire.
Delicious!
The girls used one-and-a-half
sacks of potatoes for chips. I had
brought a handful of potato
peelers from the U.S. for gifts,
but since I was the only one in the
house that used the one I gave to
my family, I hestitated to give
away any more.
But they made quite a hit, and
when I said each girl that liked
the peelers could take one home,
there was no one who waited to be
urged.
The day before the festa we
made the dough for the Cofcinhas
at the school. This entailed
Employees
Three employees of Victor F.
Weaver, Inc., New Holland have
been promoted to supervisory
positions in the prepared foods
division as a result of the in
creased production of Weaver
products.
Raymond L. Trout, Willow
Street RDI, has been appointed to
the position of foreman in the
night batter dip department.
Trout joined Weaver in 1971 as
the department’s assistant
foreman.
George Zimmerman, Kinzer
RDI, and Larry Martin, 344 E.
Main St., New Holland, have been
promoted to assistant foreman
positions in the batter dip fried
chicken operations.
Zimmerman began his em
ployment at Weaver in 1971,
serving in several production
capacities, and has more
currently been serving as a
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mashing cooked potatoes and
manioc (tapioca), and mixing in
egg and milk. This was made into
cone-shaped balls filled with
seasoned ground meat. The same,
meat mixtures was used to fill
rissoles—rounds of pastry closed
in a quarter moon shape around
the meat. Both rissoles and
coxinhas were dipped in a
mixture of egg and milk, rolled in
fine bread crumbs, and fried in
deep fat. The frying was done the
morning of the festa. What a
project!
A thousand mugs were sold and
lots of soda was drunk, but the
food and coke fanta and beer
didn’t go over very well. It was
really a shame because the group
worked so hard.
Now the club can relax a little,
but I hope soon to get them
started on a community service
project. So far the excuse has
been—“ But there’s too much to
do in preparation for the Festa’’.
That’s all for now—until we
recover from this event.
Promoted
department group leader. He will
be assisting Trout in depart
mental supervisory respon
sibilities.
Martin came to Weaver in 1971
as a group leader in the prepared
foods department. In his new
position he will be assisting in the
supervision of the newest batter
dip fired chicken department.
Thomas R. Koch, Denver RDI,
has been famed to the post of
standards and methods engineer.
Koch joined Weaver in 1971 as a
foreman in the company’s fresh
processing division. Currently, in
conjunction with his supervisory
responsibilities, he has been
assisting in the establishment of
a vestibule training program,
which provides added job ex
perience for new and established
employees.
In his new position, Koch will
be responsible for the study and
preparation of new methods and
production efficiencies in plant
operations.
Conservation Banquet Set
The Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District
annual banquet will be held at
6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23 at
the Farm and Home Center.
Speaker for the evening will be
R. M. Davis, state con
servationist, U. S. Soil Con
servation Service, Harrisburg.
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