LEESPORT (Berks Co.) The Berks County Conservation District is pleased to announce scholarship award winners for 1993. The annual banquet will be March 29 at the Kutztown Grange Hall. At that time, the winners will be announced and introduced. • The conservation district will award two individuals with $l,OOO toward their first year of college. This is the sixth year that these scholarships have been awarded to outstanding youth in Berks County. Victoria Lee Kline will be gra duated from Exeter High School this year and plans to continue her education with a major wildlife biology at the University of Idaho. Victoria is the daughter of James P. and Lois M. Kline of Nicol Drive, Reading. This young student athlete has excelled in the classroom, in cross-country, the National Honor Society, the Environmental Club, and Girl Scout activities. She has received honors at the local, reg ional, and stale levels in all of these activities. 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Northeast egg producers announc ed the kickoff of the Northeast egg promotion campaign. ‘The mission of the campaign is to take advantage of some of the largest media markets in the coun try and communicate pro-egg messages to consumers,” said Paul Sauder (R.W. Sauder, Inc.), one of the cochairmen of the cam paign. The first year of the pro gram will focus on media relations in Boston, New York, Philadel phia, Baltimore, and Washington. “A regional promotion cam paign will amplify, not replace, the promotion efforts being con ducted by American Egg Board and some of the state organiza tions in the northeast region,” said Paul Hann (Purina Mills, Inc.), the UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre Co.) New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Worker Protection Standards for agricultural workers exposed to pesticides will be implemented starting April 15. “These new standards are meant to reduce work ers’ risk of illness or injury from pesticide expo sure,” said Kerry Hoffman, pesticide education coordinator with Penn State’s Pesticide Education Program. “The new rules cover workers who handle, mix, load, and apply pesticides as well as workers in pesticide-treated fields, forests, nurse ries, and greenhouses.” The new regulations expand requirements (or warnings about pesticide applications, using per sonal protective equipment, restricting entry into recently treated areas, decontaminating treated areas, coping with emergencies, maintaining con tact with handlers of highly toxic pesticides, and giving workers pesticide safety training. The rules also require substantial revision of nearly 10,000 agricultural pesticide labels. “Labels now must include information about toxicity, appropriate personal protective equipment and how much ume must pass before it’s safe to enter a recently treated area,” said Hoffman. The EPA is implementing the Worker Protection Standards in two phases. “Pesticides with the new label statements will be sold starting April 15, 1993,” Hoffman said. “When farm workers use products with a new label, they must follow that label’s directions.” The rest of the requirements become enforceable starting April 15, 1994. Beginning then, employers must provide workers with decontamination facili ties, pesticide safety training and information, noti fication of applications and information about pes ticides used, clean and safe personal protective equipment, and emergency assistance il required EPA developed these rules with non-English speaking workers in mind. “Employers must give warnings, information and training in a manner workers understand,” Hoffman said. “If workers speak only Spanish, the training must be conducted in that language. This ensures that workers aren’t just told about the risks but that they understand them.” ND The rules will be enforced by the states through cooperative enforcement agreements with EPA. Several pesticide uses are exempt from the reg ulations, including government-sponsored pest control, research on unregistered pesticides, post harvest and livestock uses and use on or near pas ture and rangeland, rights-of-way and structures, and on vertebrae pests. Use of attractants/repellants in traps and use near homes, gardens, and lawns also are exempt from the regulations. on both the soccer and tennis teams. He was given scholar awards in 1991 and 1992. His essay shows he realizes what the balance of nature means and that he is willing to do his part to educate others in reversing some wasteful trends. other co-chairman. “At the same time, it will give states that don’t have established promotion pro grams a way to participate in in creasing the consumption of eggs.” Sauder said, “In launching a join promotion campaign. North east egg producers will be able to target their customers with the specific messages that are import ant to them. They will also in crease the value of their invest ment in the checkoff by increasing the power of their impact on con sumers.” Organizing the campaign was a grassroots effort by Egg Associa tion of America, Maryland Egg Council, New England Poultry Association, Pennsylvania Poultry Association, and individual egg producers. New Pest Regs April 15
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