NEWARK, Del. - Fifteen year-old Valerie Moore of Bear, De., is the kind of person you instantly like. Easy-going, with a twinkle in her eye, the dark-haired teenager is one of those quiet, competent types who somehow manage to spend a lot of their tune helpmg others. For the past four years Valerie has been working on a health project in her local 4-H club, studying aspects of family, community, and personal health and in the process lending a helping PAUL B ZIMMERMAN INC b °* 12s r.d. #4.utitz. pa 17543 I miL Um iillTllTlLlimfin, mu. Wood Corner Rd.,lMile West of Ephrata Hardware • Farm Supplies Phone: 717-738-1121 Custom Manufacturing • Crane Service FOR HIGH OF c/oJohnZ Martin New Holland. RD 1 - Phone 7X7 354 5848 National 4-H winner helps hand to others and sharing her knowledge with fellow club members around the state. These efforts have been rewarded with a $lOOO national scholarship from Eli Lily and Company and Kraft, Inc. The award was announced during the national 4-H Club Congress, held Nov. 30-Dec. 4 in Chicago A 10th grader at Glasgow High School, Valerie lives on a 10-acre farm on Porter Road in Bear She’s the youngest of four children. Over the years each of her AMoI-Mix/LPS " liquid supplements are so important Mol-Mix/LPS contains the highest quality ingredients available plus our guaranteed sugars level, guaranteed dry matter level and our special “slow ■ release” formation They all work together ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ m the convenient self-fed liquid form to give you maximum milk production Namolco Mol-MixLPS liquid supplements MARTIN’S AG SERVICE A Delaware national 4-H scholarship winner, Valerie Moore of Bear, checks blood pressure of Christiana Fire Departments's chief engineer, Fred Bush. The Glasgow High School 10th grader recently won $lOOO with highly successful com munity service and health care project. sisters and brother has won Center at Wilton, a planned a trip to the Club Congress in community in New Castle; Chicago with a special participation in simulated project, but Val is the first to disaster drills at nearby win a National scholarship Union Hospital in Elkton, Md , enrollment in a CPR as well Her successful health course given by the project has included Christiana Fire Company, volunteer work with the and numerous county and elderly at the Shelton Senior state presentations to other CUSTOM BUILT BARN EQUIPMENT LOOP STALLS (Southern Style - Channel Front - Welded Front) STANDARD FREE STALLS GATES (38” - 48” - 54” High) AUTOMATIC GATE LATCHES FENCING FEED THRU FENCING Good nutrition is essential during these crucial fall and winter months That’s why This winter, give your dairy herd our best and make that low degree in temperature mean a high degree in profit' NORTHAMPTON FARM BUREAU Tatamy Pa 18085 Phone 215 258 2871 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 13,1980—Cl 1 elderly 4-H’ers on the subject of health She also played a major role in organizing a course last winter on physical fitness and personal grooming. The well-attended countywide 4-H event in volved seven speakers, including several representatives of the health care field. Valerie became involved , 1 n >\hen she was eight and over the years has been very active in club work, often in a leadership capacity. Besides health, her other projects include dairy foods, sewing, sheep production (she helps her dad manage the family’s 20- sheep flock), goats, and rabbits. She’s often shown animals at the State Fair in Harrington and is a member of the county’s successful 4- H livestock judging team, which competes in several out-of-state events each year 4-H clubs are set up so that specific skills are taught by volunteer leaders with ex pertise in those areas. Valerie’s health project leader is Mrs. Jeanette Lowman, supervisor of day nursing at Union Hospital in Elkton, Md With her help, Val has been able to meet some of the different specialists involved in health care there and to observe some of the inner workings of the hospital. Among other things she has observed an autopsy, and accompanied a dietician on rounds • with diabetic patients Valerie is her club’s liason with the hospital and has been on the planning com mittee for their participation THINK AHEAD... Read Futures Markets on Page 3. m the hospital’s external disaster drills, when the 14 members of the “Porter Gang” serve as volunteer “casualties.” She also had a lot to do with getting her club in volved in helping the elderly residents of Wilton’s new senior center. Initially she and other Porter Gang board members (she’s the treasurer) were looking for a “grandmother” and “grandfather” to adopt. They ended up essentially adopting all 116 residents of the three-story complex providing everything from blood pressure checks to talent shows, plowing and helping plant a garden, serving an occasional lun cheon, bringing in group birthday cakes, making special holiday boxes and baskets, caroling at Christmas, and m other ways showing these people many of them lonely and living out their last years on limited funds—that somebody still cares. Valerie isn’t sure yet about her career goals But one thing is clear—she’ll probably go into some kind of helping profession, either nursing or radiology most likely She’s also considered becoming a veterinarian's assistant because of her experience with animals. Whatever she does, her scholarship will help get the kind of training she needs. Beaming about her national award, Val says she couldn’t have done all this without the enthusiastic backing of her folks, Angela and Cliff Moore, long-tune club leaders
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