B24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 21,1984 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U S Department of Agriculture is mailing teaching kits to elemen tary schools across the country this week to open the 1984 National Food Safety Poster Contest on “Summertime Food and Fitness.” The contest an annual event since 1981 is sponsored by USDA’s Food Safety and In spection Service to teach youngsters how to properly handle and prepare perishable foods, said Secretary of Agriculture John R Block. The teaching material uses a picnic theme to explain why people must be extra careful to adequately cook and refrigerate food during the hot summer months, when more cases of food poisoning occur. Some 300,000 children were affected by food poisoning illness last year alone. The kits also emphasize physical fitness for youngsters a tie-in to USDA’s current Food and Fitness Campaign. Children, as well as adults, need to understand good health depends both on safe and wholesome food and on fit bodies, Block said. “We are strongly committed to consumer educaf' r,n at Tl sr>/\,” Del. nurserymen to meet DOVER, Del. The Delaware Association of Nurserymen will hold its annual winter meeting Thursday at the Sheraton Inn in Dover. The program will start at 8:30 a.m. and adjourn at 4:30. Registration is $lO, payable at the door. The event is being sponsored jointly by the association and the University of Delaware Cooperative Extension Service. The morning session will feature talks on plant propagation, plantings for city streets (a report on the Newark beautification program), use of computers in the nursery business, and com munication. , ? v; V\ NEED MORE ROOM? Read The Classified Yt ''- CO ■> Mivt over/ Real Estate Ads (RED WING I | ASK THE MAN HEP WING .y.. | WHQ WEARS THEM FARMERS’ FRIEND AKv BARN BOOT For active farmers Rugged barnyard ac id resistant uppers for extra long wear on hardworking feet Come try on a pair Width [a [ B [c Id [e lEE EEEE Size 10-14|8-15 7 1 /;-14[6-16 6V?-1316V;-1316V;-13 CARPENTERS WBk and BUILDERS ■^ko’clock ALL-AROUND ■9L> / FAVORITE! This handsome 8 morrasm toe model has hfen popular favorite for years' Oil tanned Brown Chrome uppers rolled top band (om bmed with crafted m comfort Super tough Neoprene soles for action wear NO 214 FOR THE FOOT HARD TO FIT' Width AA I A | B I C [ D I E lEE I EEEE Size 10-15 9-14 7V?-16| 6V?-14| 5-16 I 6-14 | 6-14 | 7-13 eel WAYNE'S v DRY GOODS 271 W. MAIN STREET KUTZTOWN, PA. PHONE 215-683-7686 Food Safety Poster Contest Opened said Block “The children’s poster contest is really just that con sumer education for the younger generation “USDA meat and poultry in spection assures that products are safe, wholesome and accurately labeled when they reach the stores, but it’s up to consumers to keep them that way,” Block said “The poster contest is an excellent vehicle for getting this kind of information to children. First they learn the basic rules of food safety Then they must use those rules to design their posters. ” USDA is sending kits to about 72,000 public and private grade schools for the 1984 contest, which runs through March 12 Winners will be announced in May. First-place winners and their teachers will each win a $2OO U S savings bond, plus a trip to Washington, D.C., for the June awards ceremony Parents of the winners also receive the trip. In addition, the winning children’s schools will receive $4OO for library and audiovisual equipment. Second-place winners and their teachers will win $lOO bonds Third-place winners and their Following an awards luncheon, the afternoon program will begin at 1:45 with presentations on pruning evergreens, and land scape designs for southern Delaware. From 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. a special session on pesticide use and ap plicator recertification will be presented. This part of the program will focus on pesticide safety and insecticides for nursery and landscape use. Individuals who attend this session will earn two recertification credits toward a restricted pesticide applicator’s license for turf and ornamental horticulture. teachers will win $1)0 bonds Donors for this year’s prizes are the National Broiler Council, the National Pork Producers Council, M MUMMAU S TIRE the American Meat Institite and the National Meat Association Teachers or principals who have not received the teaching kit by the end of December may request kits from: 1984 National Food Safety Poster Contest, P.O. Box 14313, Dayton, Ohio, 45414.
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