Conservation Meeting Set
LANCASTER - Dr. Ruth
Patrick, an award winning author
and a pioneer in the area of
ecological study and Limnology,
will be one of several featured
speakers who will take part in a
Conference on Rural Preservation
in Pennsylvania, Saturday, May
24,1986, on the campus of Franklin
& Marshall College, Lancaster.
Dr. Patrick’s presentation will
focus on the environmental
component of the agricultural
preservation equation.
The speaker currently is
Honorary Chairman of the Board
of Trustees at the Academy of
Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
and she is an occupant of the
Francis Boyer Research Chair of
Limnology. She founded the
Limnology Department at the
Academy of Natural Sciences in
1947.
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The holder of 20 honorary
degrees, Dr. Patrick has received
many awards throughout her
illustrious career, including: The
Philadelphia Award which she
received in 1973; the Merit Award
for the Botonical Society of
America; and the Eminent
Ecologist Award of the Ecological
Society of America.
Among the other Conference
speakers will be: Arthur Davis,
Maurice Goddard, Professor of
Forestry and Environmental
Resources at Pennsylvania State
University; Ralph Grossi,
President of the American Farm
land Trust; Charles Barry
Wookey, a British Farmer who
profitably farms 1,600 acres in
Wiltshire, England using organic
methods; Dr. William Liebhardt,
Associate Director, Rodale
Research Center, Emmaus, Pa.;
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and Dr. Gerald Torres, Professor
of Law, University of Minnesota
and Director of Agricultural Law
and Policy Institute.
The day-long Conference will be
broken into 10 sessions, all held at
Franklin and Marshall College’s
Stahr Hall. The Conference is open
to the public. Registration fee is
$55.00 which includes lunch.
Coordinating the Conference
are: Lawrence B. Kurland, West
Chester, Pa. attorney and chair
person of the Agricultural Law
Committee of the Pennsylvania
Bar Association; Henry Meigs,
President of the Schuylkill Valley
Nature Center; Pennsylvania
State Representative Samuel W.
Morris, (D-Chester), Chairman of
the Pennsylvania House
Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee, and Mrs. Eleanor
Morris, President, French and
Pickering Creeks Conservation
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The Agricultural Law Com
mittee of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association focuses on the
problems and opportunities af
fecting rural and farm interests
throughout the state. The French
and Pickering Creeks Con
servation Trust, Inc., located in
R.D. 2, Pottstown, Pa., is a non
profit, scientific, educational and
charitable corporation, whose
Eastern Opens Troy Store
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Eastern
Milk Producers Cooperative
Association, Inc. has announced
the opening of its fourth retail
store, to be located at 7 Canton
Street in Troy, Pennsylvania. The
new store will be open for business
starting on May 12, with a grand
opening celebration and ribbon
cutting ceremony planned for the
end of May to coincide with the
t»-ov Dairy Days festivities.
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purpose is to preserve historic
sites, open space, and natural
conservation areas in the water
sheds of the French and Pickering
Creeks and their tributaries, in
Northern Chester County.
Anyone interested in attending
the Conference can make reser
vations by contacting The French
and Pickering Creeks Trust, Inc.
at 215-469-0150, or by writing to the
group at Box 360, R.D. 2, Pott
stown, Pa. 19464.
The Troy store, like Eastern’s
existing three stores, will sell bulk
and cut cheese varieties, meat
products and both dip and soft ice
cream. The store will have a deli,
serving subs, pizza and hot dogs. A
new feature will also be added a
lunch and dinner “smorgasbord”
featuring hot and cold foods to eat
there or take-out, as well as make
your-own sundaes.
The Troy store is the latest ex
pansion of Eastern’s Dairy
Products Division, which currently
consists of a warehouse/dairy
store complex in Canton, PA, retail
stores located in Wellsboro, Pa.
and Newark, N.Y., and a truck
distribution system covering an
eleven state area. The Dairy
Products Division was started just
seven years ago as a simple
“products-to-proiducers” program
offering two items to Eastern
members. Under the management
of Thad Woodward, the operation
has expanded to offer over 120
products, achieving over $6.4
million in gross sales in fiscal 1984-
85.
“Eastern’s long-range plana call
for the periodic opening of retail
stores in strategic locations to
serve our membership and the
public,” said Earl R. Forwood,
President of Eastern Milk
Producers. “The Troy store is just
another step towards fulfilling
those plans.”
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