BY DEBBIE KOONTZ
LANCASTER “Thanks to you
we still have a home” is the brief
message written across a bird and
animal poster above the door at the
Lancaster County Conservation
District’s office at the Farm and
Home Center.
The message, so full of meaning
for Soil Stewardship Week and yet
actually displayed all year long,
emphasizes our national ob
servance this week of man’s
responsibility -to protect and
conserve soil, water and other
natural resources.
The. force, behind the poster
designed to incite all .who walk
through the door, is Nancy
Burkhart, executive secretary for
this county’s conservation district,
and a friendly, interesting
character, always ready with a
smile and a helping hand.
She hung the poster as her way of
promoting a job in which she
believes. It is also Nancy who
mails and coordinates all the in-
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Nancy Burkhart makes soil eonsenmtion her career
formation you receive from the
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But handling conservation
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-“He worked ~at conservation
work, excavating and land
scaping, Tor 25 years in .his own
business. I just picked up on all the
proper practices and the lingo
through listening to him. It in
terested me.”
It interested her so much in fact,'
that she has worked for the district
for 15 years. She recently was
honored for this-attribute at their
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Nancy Burkhart reads a copy of the Soil Stewardship Week
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