LANCASTER The Lancaster
County Conservation District was
recently chosen as one of 11
recipients of Chesapeake Bay
awards sponsored by the Isaac
Walton League of America and the
Du Pont Company.
Representatives from the
district, as well as the 10 other
awardees, will be honored at a bay
awards ceremony to be held on
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Lancaster Conservation District Receives Bay Award
Feb. 19, at the Smithsonian In
stitution’s National Museum of
Natural History. Others expected
to attend include the governors of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
and Delaware, as well as En
vironmental Protection Agency
administrator Lee Thomas.
The Isaac Walton League and Du
Pont instituted the awards last
year to recognize the
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(215)857 5933
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Kempton Pa 19529
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RD 4 Box 545
Lebanon Pa 17042
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Sinking Spring Pa
(215)678 4567
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Birdsboro Pa (215)582 2741
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RD 2 Shirley Aldme Rd
Elmer N) 08318
(609)358 8386
achievements of local government,
industry, agriculture and civic
groups in cleaning up the
Chesapeake Bay.
Nominated in the Local
Government category, the Lan
caster County Conservation
District is being honored for
serving as a model for other
counties in the state with regard to
its implementation of the state’s
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35 Peach Lane
Lancaster Pa 17601
(71 7)569 6343
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Benton PA
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Non-Point Source Abatement
Program. The district operates in
one of the state’s most intensively
farmed regions.
Other award recipients include:
•James Mictaener, the well-known
author whose book “Chesapeake”
increased public appreciation for
the bay.
•Don Spickler, a
from Clear Spring,
THOMAS J. BAIR
RD2 Box 196
Wnghtsville Pa 17368
(717)252 3342
WILLARD HAAS
Klmgerstown Pa 17941
(717)425 3698
CLAIR BUSH
RO 1 Lykens Pa 17048
(717)352 8998
ROBERT M. STOLTZFUS
ROBox 127 A
Cnrhramnlle Pa 19331)
(215)593 5982
VERNON ARENTZ
4/4 Christ Church Rd
littlestown Pa 17340
(717)359 4689
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RD 3 Box 604
Annville Pa 1 7003
(7 1 7)867 2890
•Barbara O’Neill, an en
vironmental activist from Port
Deposit, Maryland. O’Neill serves
on the Coastal Resource Advisory
Committee, the State Water
Quality Committee and
Maryland’s Critical Area Com
mission.
•A 1 Myers, manager of the
Governmental Relations Division
of the Pennsylvania Farmers
Association headquartered in
Camp Hill. Myers helped to shape
Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay
Program, serving on the Bay
Advisory Committee to the State
Conservation Commission and the
Chesapeake Bay Citizen’s Ad
visory Committee.
dairy fanner
Maryland.
•Bruce Reid, staff writer for the
Newport News-Daily Press of
Newport News, Va. Reid receives
the Du Pont “Skipjack Award’’ for
his reporting on the effects of
tributlytin paint on the bay and its
tributaries.
•Dr. Wllliatn Eberhardt, en
vironmental manager for Procter
and Gamble’s Mehoopany, Pa.,
plant. Eberhardt developed in
novative pollution control
technologies in an effort to
minimize the plant’s effect on the
Susquehanna River.
•Potomac Supply Corp., a family
owned and operated lumberyard in
Kinsale, Va. The firm developed a
no-discharge system for handling
chemicals and covered its lum
beryard to prevent leaching and
runoff.
•John Gottschalk, counsel for the
International Association of Fish
and Wildlife Agencies. Recognized
for his efforts in gaining public
support-for governmental efforts
to save the bay, Gottschalk is
president of the Citizen’s Program
for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc.
•Marine Trades Association of
Maryland, a coalition of marine
interests located in Annapolis, Md.
Through their educational and
public relations efforts, the
organization has rallied public
support for bay restoration.
The award recipients were
selected from 65 nominees. Ac
cording to the Izaac Walton
League’s executive director Jack
Lorenz, more than 400 citizens
groups now work to protect the
Chesapeake Bay, America’s
largest estuary.