Bradford extension honors Marian Ballard
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
MONROETON - Mrs.
Marian Ballard of East Troy
was named Extension
Cooperator of 1980 at the
annual dinner meeting of the
Bradford County Extension
Service held last Thursday
at the Monroeton Fire Hall.
Ed Dieffenbach, assistant
director of the Northern Tier
Extension Service,
presented the Recognition
Award to Mrs Ballard who
had served as a 4R leader for
32 years She had been a
years,
delighted with the Extension Service Recognition
Award given to her by Ed Diefienbach, Assistant
director of the Northern Tier Extension Service.
The award was given at the annual dinner meeting
of the Bradford County Extension Service held
recently.
member of the Extension
Executive Committee, a
Sunday School teacher for 40
years, the first president of
the Troy Hospital Auxiliary,
director of the Good
Neighbor Canner Program,
and a Home Economics
teacher in a local high
school
She is the mother of Mrs
Richard (Marilyn) Packard,
and Mrs Robert (Linda)
Hulslander, county home
economist, and is a grand
mother of three
The award was a complete
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surprise to Mrs Ballard who
spoke to say only that the
attributes mentioned by
Mrs Dieffenbach must be
someone else’s, not hers
Jeff Hale, of Rome,
president of the Bradford
County Extension Com
mittee was master of
ceremonies. He introduced
State Assemblyman Roger
Madigan, and Bradford
County Commissioner,
Francis Douglas
Assemblyman Madigan,
presented a plaque of
Commendation from the
Pennsylvania House of
Representatives to Miss
LuAn Shedden, Bradford
County Dairy Princess
Miss Levetta Roof, Ex
tension 4-H agent, named the
outstanding 4-H’ers of
Bradford County, Miss Jean
Sullivan and Miss Belinda
Roof, both of whom were
unable to be present
Miss Roof read a letter of
thanks from Miss Sullivan, a
sophomore at Marywood
College. Miss Belinda Roof,
a sister of Levetta, was
married recently, and had
moved away
The mam speaker for the
evening was Arnold Hayden,
Game Commission Biologist,
who illustrated his talk on
Wild Turkey’s with slide
pictures.
’Wild turkey weie barely
visible when I moved to the
Canton area 16 years ago,"
Hayden said, “but within the
last 10 years, they have
made a dramatic comeback
m the entire northeast We
consider their reappearance
a real conservation suc-
cess ”
In the early days, he ex
plained, Pennsylvania was
covered with a conifer
forest, but it was nearly all
cut down between 1890 and
1900 Since then the area has
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Outstanding Young Farmers of the year by the Towamia Chapter of the Bradford
County Jaycees. The awards were given at the Extension Banquet.
grown back to hardwoods,
providing food for the
comeback of the wild turkey
Hayden, a dynamic
speaker who kept the
audience awake with witty
remarks and unusual pic
tures, ended his talk by
imitating a turkey call,
something which every
turkey hunter should try
The Outstanding Young
Farmer Awards were given
to David Green of Neath, and
Brian Harris of Smithfield.
by Denny Kelly, president of
the Towanda Chapter of the
Jaycees, and Rich Ingenck,
chairman of the Outstanding
Farmer Program The
Awards, sponsored by Deere
and Company, are given to
young farmers between the
ages of 18 and 25 who have
improved their farming
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Arthur Hayden, Pennsylvania Game Comtnision
Biologist was featured speaker at the Banquet
talking about his specialty, wild turkey. "I’m telling
you for the last time, he tells an aspiring young
hunter, “try using a turkey call”.