A24—Uncastf Fanning, Saturday, Junt 21,1950
HARRISBURG - The
Pennsylvania House this
week passed H 81793, the ag
district bill, by a vote of 177
to 5.
The bill gives counties the
Lehigh
SCHNECKSVILLE -
Stephen Ragosta, vocational
agriculture teacher at
Lehigh County Vo-Tech
school at Schnecksville has
been named state winner of
the 1980 National Vocational
Teachers Assoc.-John Deere
“Outstanding Young
Member” award for Penn
The award is sponsored
annually by John Deere,
Moine, Illinois in
cooperation with NVATA,
Harold Weik wins Lebanon
strawberry contest
LEBANON - The
Lebanon Kiwanis Club again
sponsored the County FFA
Strawberry Contest. The
contest was held at the
Lebanon Treadway Inn.
FFA contestants each
brought six boxes of then
best project strawberries to
be judged. They were judged
on uniformity, size, color,
and shape. Dennis Hoke,
county extension agent, was
the official judge for the
event. After the bemss were
judged, Harry Bachman, a
Lebanon County auctioneer,
auctioned the strawberries
to members of the Kiwams.
The top box sold for $llO.
The results of the contest
were as follows: 1. Harold
Weik - Cedar Crest FFA; 2.
Mike Grill - Northern
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Ag district bill passes 177 to 5
authority to purchase
development rights. The few
negative votes cast by
Pittsburgh area legislators
were overwhelmingly
ovemdden by lawmakers
from other areas of the state.
ag teacher is state
Alexandria, Virginia.
The NVATA is a national
professional organization
serving more than 10,000
vocational educators in
agriculture throughout the
United States. Members
include elementary,
secondary and post
secondary teachers, state
supervisors of agricultural
education, teacher
educators at colleges/
universities, and college
Lebanon FFA; 3. Mike
Geesaman - Northern
Lebanon FFA, and 4. Brian
Blatt, Northern Lebanon
FFA.
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Legislative roundup
The bill now wui move to
the Senate for further
consideration.
Representative Noah
Wenger, vice chairman of
the House Agriculture
Committee, said he was
students majoring in
agricultural education.
Vocational agriculture
education is continually
faced with a shortage of
qualified teachers. Unless
more young teachers remain
in the profession for a longer
period of time, the teacher
shortage will continue.
The award is designed to
encourage younger teachers
to become more involved in
activities that induce longer
tenure. It recognizes those
who have taught three, but
not more than five years and
have assumed an active role
in professional leadership,
have been active in com
munity activities, and have
implemented innovations to
meet the needs of the local
optimistic about the bill’s
future in the upper chamber.
The only problem he saw
with the bill’s smooth
passage there is if an am
mendment is added.
Because the end of the
winner
vocational agriculture
students.
Membership and par
ticipation m professional,
civic, community and farm
organizations and the ac
complishments of students
in various areas of the
Future Farmers of America
and/or the National Post
secondary Agriculture
Student Organizations are
criteria for selecting win
ners.
The “Outstanding Young
Member” award ap
plications of state winners
will be evaluated by special
NVATA Selection Com
mittee June 15. Six regional
winners will be named. The
regional winners will be
announced July 1.
current legislative session is
near there may not be time
for the bill to come back
through the House for
concurrence if an am
mendment is added.
Another important piece of
agricultural legislation in
the Senate is HB 1794, the
right to farm bill.
Introduced by Wenger on
behalf of the mushroom
industry and strongly
supported by the Penn
sylvania Poultry
Federation, the bill was
ammended to include food
processors as well as
farmers in its provisions.
HB 1794 would make it
illegal for any local
municipality to pass a
nuisance ordinance such as
on banning standard
farming practices.
Things like lime dust and
typical farm odors are in
cluded under the bill’s
protection.
The senate concurred 47 to
0 on SB 985 and SB 986, the
Knapp bills, which would
prevent school boards and
other municipal bodies from
land speculation.
It now goes to the house for
concurence with am
mendxnents added. Pitt
sburgh legislators may raise
some last second opposition
to those bills, as they want
Class I school districts ex
cluded. They have missed
many previous opportunities
to get such an exclusion
written in
HB 2406 is a new noxious
weed bill which applies only
to Johnsongrass. It is
moving in place of the old
bill which would have
allowed new species to be
declared noxious at times in
the future.
The old bill drew fire
because it would have in
cluded multiflora rose as a
noxious weed. That measure
was opposed by rose growers
and the Pennsylvania Game
Commission which, in the
past, has urged its planting
as a game cover.
HB 2406, the eminent
domain bill which is sup
ported by the State Grange,
passed with 67 votes against
It now moves to the senate
where some opposition may
be encountered.—CH