Congratulations for being named National Poultry Production Proficiency Award winner is given to Lisa Jane Weikel, R 2, Jonestown, by Kim Havens, Assistant Executive Director, National FFA Foundation Sponsoring Committee. Lisa Weikel wins FFA poultry award KANSAS CITY, MO. - Lisa Jane Weikel, of R 2, Jonestown, graduate member of the FFA program at Northern Lebanon High School, was named a national winner in the Poultry Production Proficiency Award Program at the Future Farmers of America convention last week. Competing as the Eastern Regional Proficiency winner, Lisa captured the national crown in competition' with other regional winners on Friday, Nov. 13. The daughter of Mrs. Andrea Weikel, she is a full-time partner in the family poultry operation, which was begun in 1978. She has a 50 percent interest m 42,000 laying hens, which produce more than a quarter million eggs a week. _ Gobble, Gobble, Gobble HI was a cow. I’d moo about those non-slip, comfortable Happy Moo Mats. The 18-year-old FFA member utilizes all of the latest management techniques m the operation, including weekly weighing of bens to determine gams or losses in production, force molting to bring hens back into production and precise regulation of light in the poultry house to correspond with changes in production. She is in charge of the egg room and helps coordinate the shipment of the eggs to the dealer. The youthful poultry operator also maintains continuing and accurate production, feed and health records of the flock. Future plans call for her to participate m expansion of the family operation and building her own processing plant. SIZES AVAILABLE 36 x 60 42 x 72 48 x 65 35 x 65 42 x 84 48 x 66 39 x 65 43 x 65 48 x 72 39x69 43 x 69 54 x 65 42 x 60 48 x 60 54 x 72 10 YEAR WARRANTY Md’s Glade Valley Grange takes second Nat’l Grange announces community service winners SPOKANE, Wash. For over 30 years the National- Grange has sponsored a Community Service Awards program for its 5,000 local chapters. Millions of dollars have been raised and millions of voluntary man hours have gone into thousands of projects to benefit local communities. Last Wed., Kermit Richardson of Barre, Vt., Lecturer (program director) of the National Grange, announced the national winners of the 1981 Community Service Program. First place was won by Stillwater Grange, Kahspell, Mont., second place. Glade Valley Grange, Walkersville, Md., third place, Two Rivers Grange, Fairbanks, Ak. and fourth place, Montgomery Grange, Round Mountain, California. The National Grange is holding its annual meeting in Spokane, Nov. 9-16. Richardson said Stillwater Grange exemplifies what a small group of dedicated people can do. With only 70 members, the Grange enlisted voluntary support from nearly 200 others in the community to complete construction of a new hall to be used by the whole community. sponsored classes to tram babysitters, a wood safety class and raised funds to assist other community groups. Glade Valley Grange in Maryland won second place honors for the their total community, in volvement. Every member serves on a committee. Glade Valley’s activities provide services its community would not otherwise have. Two Rivers Grange in Alaska is the center of its community’s social and educational activities. It sponsors a medical clinic, CPR classes and other health related activities. California’s Mon tgomery Grange members com pleted the construction of a community hall, donating over 3,000 hours of manpower and raising over $5,000. Throughout the year m almost every state local Granges are Del. turfgrass conference NEWARK, Del. - The 1981 Delaware Turfgrass Conference will be held Monday, December 7, at the Hercules Country Club in Wilmington. The morning session starts at 8 a.m. It will include talks on lawn renovation, maintenance of golf greens, growing attractive tur fgrass with a restricted water supply, and a report on Eptam, a promising grass growth sup pressant. These will be followed by a talk by Alexander (Al) Radko, national director of the U.S. Golf Association on “Golf Course Management A 34 Year Per spective.” Following lunch, there will be presentations on developing a tree management strategy; Diplodia Kraiburg Happy IDEAL FOR EVERY FREE OR TIE STALL BARN WE DELIVER AND INSTALL incastar Farming, Saturday, Novembar 21,1981—D5 coming Dec. 7 Moo Mats ■ VANCO SALES R5l J ■ RD4, Box 300 IlLlin . I Carlisle, PA 17013 ■ | Phone - 717-776-3494 ■■■■■l I g Please send free sample & installation | I instructions | | Name 1 1 Address ■ lace working on community service projects to improve their com- munities. These special projects are in addition to their routine “Good Neighbor” activies. The projects are both Urge and small, ranging from developmg a senior citizens housing community to clean-up campaigns. All of their time is voluntary and when materials are needed, Grange members respond with donations and solicit assistance from other community groups through fund raising activities. tip blight in Delaware pine trees; winter and spring turfgrass disease control; planning and constructing the modern golf course. The afternoon session will also feature a talk by University of Delaware grounds superintendent Tom Taylor on “Grooming the Hen Yard Home of the Fighting Blue Hens.” The meeting will adjourn at 4 p.m. The conference is sponsored jointly by the Delaware Turfgrass Association and the Delaware Cooperative Extension Service. For further information call the department of plant science at the University of Delaware 302/738- 2531. Pesticide applicators in terested in becoming recertified can obtain credit by attending.
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