Crawford County Extension Service
BY
CAROLYN HILSDON GILLES
Crawford Co. Correspondent
MEADVELLE (Crawford) -
The Elks Club was the site of the
annual meeting and banquet of the
Crawford County Extension Ser
vice on November 22 where 175
representatives of various farm
organizations, agricultural-related
businesses, and government
gathered for fellowship and tc
elect new members to the Exten
sion Executive Committee.
Executive Committee Presi
dent, Craig Powell, opened the
meeting and County Extension
Director, Blaine Schlosscr, intro
duced committee members, staff
and other special guests. Or
behalf of the committee, Brenda
Raney presented a silk flower
arrangement to Nutrition Educa
tion Adviser, Frances Spinnato
Spinnato recendy retired after 17
years with Extension’s Expendec
Food and Nutrition Educatior
Program.
County Commissioner Davie
Glenn gave a “new building
update.” Plans arc to break groum
for a new county home and hospi
tal by spring. Once residents arc
moved into the new facility, hope
fully by fall, plans then can ge>
underway to renovate the soutl
wing into office space to house
Extension and other ag-rclatcc
services. The intent is to create i
“one stop Ag Center” with occu
pancy tentatively scheduled for
February, 1990.
Executive Committee member
Martin Re-elected
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks)
Clyde W. Martin, East Earl, was
re-elected a director of Atlantic
Dairy Cooperative at the coopera
tive’s annual meeting Nov. 16.
A Lancaster County dairy far
mer, Martin will represent Atlan
tic’s District 35. He joined the
cooperative in 1960 and was first
elected a director in 1984.
Martin and his wife, Frances,
are in partnership with Glenn
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Doneva Hyde reviewed nominees
for vacancies on the Executive
Committee and, after asking for
nominations from the floor, bal
lots were marked. New Executive
Committee members arc: Michael
and Marsha Holowcll and Craig
Powell, from District A; Charles
and Ruth Thompson from District
B; Joseph Holler and Jeff and
Brenda Raney from District C;
and Calvin and Marcia Ernst from
District D.
Featured speaker for the even
ing, was Pat Leimbach, newspaper
columnist and author of three
books: “A Thread of Blue
Denim,” “All My Meadows,” and
“Harvest of Bittersweet.” Leim
bach resides in Vermillion, Ohio,
where she and hre husband have a
vegetable and grain operation. She
is a graduate of Case Western
Reserve and has done graduate
study at the University of Montre
al. Twenty-five years in teaching
provided her with excellent train
ing as a public speaker.
Leimbach was raised about 40
miles from Cleveland on a small
fruit farm. Her mother supported
seven children by working at a far
mer’s market and had a “jaund
iced viewpoint of farm life.” She
took a dim view of her daughter
going to college at Ohio State and
preferred, instead, that she study
French at a women’s college to
prepare her for a more genteel life.
After graduation, Leimbach began
teaching school and, as fate would
have it, the school board was com-
Martin. They farm 168 acres and
raise 200 head of Holsteins.
As a director of Atlantic, Martin
will be instrumental in making
policy-setting decisions that gov
ern the operation of the
cooperative.
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative,
which represents 3,800 members
in a seven-state region, marketed
3.45 billion pounds of milk in fis
cal 1988.
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prised of dairy farmers. Through
them, she met her husband and
“ultimately married from fruits
into vegetables.”
Lcimbach feels a “special mis-
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sion to farm wives,” who, she
says, have “no manual of proce
dure, just a lifelong sturgglc of
one-the-job training.” Her amus
ing stories of life on the farm and
her insightful readings of favorite
columns were clearly appreciated
by her audience. They found in
her a kindred spirit whoblessed
them with her gift of laughter.
mds December 31, 1988
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