A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6, 1993
Lancaster Extension
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Three Lancaster County
Cooperative Extension agents
were recently honored for indivi
dual achievements at state and
national levels.
H. Bruce Hellerick, horticulture
agent, won national recognition in
August at the 1993 LESCO-
National Association of County
Agricultural Agents turfgrass/
horticulture awards luncheon held
in Baltimore.
Chet Hughes, livestock agent,
will receive a first place honor
from the state in the 4-H Recogni
tion and Search For Excellence
programs sponsored by the Pen
nsylvania Association of County
Agricultural Agents in State Col
lege on November 16.
Zoann Parker, 4-H agent, won
the highest honor presented by the
National Association of Extension
4-H Agents. She won the Distin
guished Service Award at the asso
ciation’s annual convention in
October in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Hellerick was honored for plan-
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ning and coordinating the Profes
sional Landscape Management
Program, Focus On Tree Identifi
cation, held with the cooperation
of Penn State and other agencies.
The objective, according to Heller
ick, was to increase the knowledge
and professionalism of landscape
managers in south central
Pennsylvania.
“This program was imple
mented in response to local land
scape managers’ desire for more
in-depth, focused programs,’’ said
Hellerick. “The problem with
these programs, however, is the
’shotgun’ approach of covering a
little bit of everything and never
covering any one topic thoroughly.
Upon further discussions, I invited
a group of landscape managers,
nurserymen, and extension rep
resentatives to meet and sharetheir
ideas about creating an in-depth,
four-year program specifically for
landscape managers.”
To date, there have been three
programs: pruning, tree identifica
tion, and shrub identification, and
Hellerick said the results have
been “very positive. The program
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lege of the student’s choice.
Applicants must be Maryland
residents and ust have carded a
4-H or FFA Holstein project
All applications will be consid
ered and winners arc to be notified
in early January.
In order to get an application,
write the Scholarship Committee
chairmen, Judy and Charles lager,
at 8115 Murphy Road, Fulton, MD
20759, or call them at (301)
725-6751. Please return applica
tions by Jan. 1.
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Three Lancaster County Cooperative Extension agents were race* inoi x
Individual achievements at state and national levels. From left, Bruce Hellerlck, horti
culture agent; Zoann Parker, 4-H agent; and Chet Hughes, livestock agent. Photo by
Andy Andnwo
has been so successful and well
received that many individuals
have already committed to attend
ing all the courses scheduled for
1993, 1994, and 1995.”
Hughes will be honored for
implementing a program to teach
4-H’ers how to ensure a lean,
healthy hog carcass. According to
Hughes, at an annual county swine
show and sale, after a routine eva
luation at a slaughter plant, a 4-H
market hog tested positive for sulfa
residues and was condemned at a
total loss. Regarding excess fat, as
a result of the first 4-H swine car
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cass show in 1989, 27 percent of
the carcasses fell below a 52 per
cent muscle score, and two carcas
ses had more than 1.7 inches of
backfat This prompted the need
for a total education program for
4-H’ers to attack the problem of
residues and excess fat
Hughes also received a first
place award in the 4-H and Youth
Search for Excellence Program,
which recognizes accomplishment
in extension education through the
selection of 24 agents who. will
share their professsional know
how with fellow agents during the
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professional improvement ses
sions at the annual meeting. In
addition, he was also awarded a
second place award in the state for
a radio presentation on farm safety
and from columns which appeared
in Lancaster Faming.
Parker was cited for achieve
ments in the 4-H youth program
conducted in the county. She was
among 1,200 professional youth
workers from all 50 states and
Puerto Rico attending the five-day,
47th association conference hosted
by the North Carolina Association
of Extension 4-H Agents.
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