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
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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. Dugouts for the
school’s baseball field were also
constructed in cooperation with the
vocational arts department.
At Conrad Weiser, chapter
members participated in several
activities. Work continued on the
historic Dry Road Farm, including
the planting of apple trees in the
restoration of the orchard and pine
trees along the farm’s border.
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the Spring a Food for America
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At Biglerville, the Apple City
Chapter had four projects. They
included landscaping the Adams
County SPCA property, continuing
restoration work in the Gettysburg
National Park, planting of silver
maple and locust trees in the
Oakside Community Park at
Biglerville and fruit demonstration
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