B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 5,1981 Area FFA chapters win top national ALEXANDRIA, VA. - Twelve Pennsylvania FFA chapters have won emblems in the National Chapter Award Program and the Building Our American Com munities (BOAC) Program. The awards will be presented at the 54th National FFA Convention scheduled Nov. 12-14 in Kansas City, Mo. Gold emblems for superior performance in comprehensive chapter programs were earned by two Lancaster County chapters and one Lebanon County chapter in the National Chapter Award Program. The gold went to Cloister Chapter, of Ephrata, and Grassland Chapter, New Holland, in Lancaster County and Northern Lebanon Chapter at Fredericksburg in Lebanon County. A silver emblem in the chapter competition goes to the Conrad Weiser Chapter at Eobesonia. Bronze emblem winners include Cedar Crest Chapter, Lebanon; Eastern Lebanon County Chapter, Myerstown; H. G. Parkinson Chapter, McDonald; Lehigh County Chapter, Schnecksville; Lower Dauphin Chapter, Hum melstown; and Mifflinburg Chapter, Mifflinburg. The silver emblem winner in the BOAC Program is Northern Lebanon Chapter. Bronze BOAC emblems were won by Apple City Chapter, Biglerville; Conrad Weiser ARCADIAN liquid gives a profitable boost to increase crop yields* Arcadian liquid makes it easy. Made the Arcadian liquid gives you uniform distribution of fertilizer ingredients from start to finish. It’s truly the efficient way to turn alfalfa into green gold. Fortified With A New Combination of Power-Packed Ingredients! • Grain Distillers Solubles SB • Ammonium Polyphosphate • Condensed Fermented Corn Extractive ARCADIAN GOLDEN URAN 30%, Poly-N 10-34-0, Wholesale & Retail ALSO Lime Sales & Spreading plus retail insecticides & Herbicides Call Us For Your Chemical Needs, HARTIirS AG SERVICE c/o JOHN Z. MARTIN RDI, Box 716, New Holland, PA 17557 Phone: 717-354-4996 or 717-354-5848 Chapter and Twin Valley Chapter, Elverson. In all, 109 of the nation’s most active FFA chapters will receive the gold emblem in the National Chapter Award Program at the upcoming convention in Novem ber. A total of 376 of the country’s more than 8000 chapters will receive the gold, silver or bronze emblems. The program encourages FFA chapters and members to par ticipate in a wide variety of ac tivities in vocational agriculture from the local to the national level. The awards are sponsored by the National FFA Foundation, Inc. Chapters earn the awards for activities in 11 areas of in volvement. These areas include supervised agricultural ex perience; cooperation; community service; leadership; earnings, savings and investments; conduct of meetings; scholarship, recreation; public relations; state and national activities; and Alumni relations. Many of the chapters are also involved in community activities. The BOAC awards will be presented to 180 chapters at the national convention. During the convention, one of the chapters will be awarded a national citation for BOAC activities. The BOAC program is used to enhance agricultural economic development of communities by identifying jobs and creating coalitions that discover new areas for agricultural employment.. It helps prepare future community and national leaders, instills a sense of community responsibility within chapter members and encourages them to become in volved in the Community development process. This year marks the XOth an niversary of the program designed to recognize FFA chapters whose efforts and achievements in community development are the most outstanding in the nation. The silver emblem won by the Northern Lebanon Chapter recognized chapter efforts in grading, seeding and building of a new softball field on school property, along with a backstop. The project was started last Septmeber. 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