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A stack of new calendars accu
mulating these last weeks con
tinues to grow, with varied addi
tions of interesting sizes, shapes,
lovely photographs, and topical
themes.
Transferring data from those
retiring ones to their new replace
ments now becomes a priority to
do chore of the time. From this
year to next year go notations of
birthday and anniversary dates,
lists of meetings already sche
duled into the new year and
sticky-backed notes of a personal
nature - from me... to me - of parti
cular responsibilities that must be
met in this 1994.
And, while we will all struggle
for awhile with remembering to
use a “4” rather than a “3” when
writing the date, life otherwise
continues for most of us in a
business-as-usual manner. Still, I
can’t help thinking, as I hang in
prominent places the calendars of
1994, how nice it would be to be
able to “wish” certain changes in
life, just with the flip of a new year
page.
For instance, the obvious
wishes. I wish;
• that all physical and verbal
abuse between people would
cease.
- that we could, if not k>ve, at
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least tolerate and show respect for
one another, regardless of race,
creed, religion or gender.
- that no child had to go hungry.
- that no one reached age 20
without having acquired a basic
education, reading abilities and at
least some minimum job skills.
- that tragedies of death by
drugs, alchohol or guns would
become non-existent
- that crime victims rights
would get more attention from our
justice system than the rights of
criminals and that we could find
ways to truly fit punishment to the
crimes.
Hey, it’s a New Year, I can
dream, can’t I? And, I’d also wish;
- that geneticists would develop
a cow that milked five days a
week and took off every other
Sunday and major holidays.
- we could have a couple of
years of “normal” weather. What
ever that is.
• Johnsongrass could be
harvested and come out of silos as
a 22-percent-protein forage feed.
- the bam cats would develop
as strong a desire to catch mice as
they have to be underfoot in the
bam begging for milk.
- someone would develop com
fortable, open-air sneakers that
would not suck up handfuls of
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AIRVILLE (York Co.) The
Pennsylvania Foundation for Bet
ter Living, which spearheads the
state’s Ag in the Classroom prog
ram, elected officers and
appointed three new directors dur
ing a recent board meeting.
Elected as president was Carl
Shaffer of Mifflinville: Jim Kohl
of Furman Foods, Northumber
land, was named vice president;
and Marvin Beshore, an attorney
with Milspaw and Beshore in Har
risburg, was elected secretary/
treasurer.
represents the Pennsylvania Farm
Bureau, joined the board in 1992.
He said he looks forward to serv
ing as president and promoting the
Foundation’s goal of educating
consumers about agriculture.
To reach this goal, Shaffer is
asking for a joint effort of support
between farmers, agribusinesses,
and consumers alike “in one of the
most overlooked and misunder
stood aspects of our lives, our
food supply.”
In addition to (he officers, the
Foundation appointed three new
sawdust to wedge in under one’s
toes during milking on hot July
afternoons.
- heifers would have an inbred
instinct to put themselves back
inside the fence as quickly and
effortlessly as they let themselves
out
- my roses always looked like
the ones on the covers of the floral
catalogs.
- automobiles repelled dust,
mud and road salt.
- machinery parts sold for 10
percent over the materials cost in
them.
- flies became an endangered
species.
-1 could grow tomatoes year
round with August-garden flavor.
And, finally, I wish we could
slow the passage of time that flies
by and demands that we change
these calendars seemingly more
quickly with each passing year.
In lieu of that, we wish... you
and yours a great New Year!
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Pa. Foundation For Better Living
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Shaffer, a vegetable farmer who
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directors to the board. Elected to
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Michael W. Brubaker of Lititz,
and Blaine Fessler of Mohrsville.
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Natural Resources in Urbanizing
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Living Needs Teachers
AIRVILLE (York Co.)
Plans arc underway for the third
annual Ag in the Classroom teach
ers workshop, which is set for July
17-22 at Penn State University.
Sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Foundation for Better Living, the
workshop provides hands-on
learning through group discus
sions and projects. Specifically,
teachers leant how to incorporate
agricultural concepts into their
current classroom curriculum.
According to workshop coordi
nator Carol Ann Gregg, the work
shop evolved from a need to com
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‘Today’s consumers are farther
and farther away from the farm in
terms of understanding,” said
Gregg, a fanner and agricultural
journalist from Grove City. “Our
goal is to educate consumers
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cle was being cleaned, the finish
on the buttons softened from the
solvent and was abraded off dur
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