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ment to building extension outreach into the
community.
Schadler was presented with a decorated milk can
by the extension association, and a Nittany Lion
panther statue by Rodgers in recognition of 25 years
service to the county.
Others on the staff recognized include Kenneth
Winebark, with 10 years service, and who was also
recognized for his significant efforts to build, coordi
nate and support youth extension program in lives
tock and dairying.
Winebark said that Lebanon Countians should be
proud of the fact that two of its youth judging
teams the dairy judging and livestock judging
have won state titles this past year, continuing a
several-year tradition of Lebanon County youth
peforming near or at the top in the slate, and that those
teams have gone on to represent the state, their com
munity and themselves well at the national level.
Martha Gregory presented 4-H leadership awards
and recognized those who have volunteered their
time. She said that on a national level, the average
4-H volunteer spends 220 hours for 4-H activities,
drives from 300 to 400 miles and spends $5O of their
own money each year for 4-H.
However, she said the true indicator of the value of
4-H can not be derived from a statistical analysis of
measurable things, but rather from the personal deve
lopment, sense of community and ability to achieve
that is derived by both adult leaders, volunteers and
youth involved in the programs.
In an election of new directors, Ann Arnold, Leon
Hoover, Gail Shiner, and Frances Krall were
reelected to the board, while Glen Krall was newly
elected.
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ping for basic needs; the other, full-time working
suburban parents of two children, who arc too
exhausted to ensure that the house gets clean; and a
widowed, retired man who has depended on his wife
for literally everything and now must face life with
out her.
At some point, the teenage girl must leant how to
shop for the proper grocery items within a budget.
The parents should provide weekly chores for the
children, so they can leant and use those skills later
on. And the retired senior citizen should have been
more involved with decision-making early on rather
than allowing his wife to buy the groceries and pay
the bills.
Those are all examples of trends in society, which
includes teen parents, parents that both woik, and an
aging population. In Chester county alone, Bowen
said, 41,000 people are 65 years and older.
Those who have learned to use the coping skills
of the ’9os and are thriving can think back to when
they were children. “Many things that go on in your
life can be traced back to what you did as a child,”
she said. Learning new skills is one of them that can
be carried over successfully into adulthood.
Jay Irwin, retired Lancaster County extension
director, spoke about the trip he and wife Betty
Chester County Extension banquet speakers and award winners. From left,
Claudette Tharp, honored with the Dewitt Wallace Youth At Risk Award; Alan John
son, retired board member; Cathy Bowen, family living specialist, speaker; Betty and
Jay liwln, banquet speakers; Eileen Schafer, retired board member, re-elected; Char
les Wollaston, retired board member; and Trudy Dougherty, extension director.
Lebanon
Entertainment was provided by William Metzel, of
Lament, who is a self-described “intcrant gizmolo
gist.” For most of his presentation, Metzel spoke to
the mostly adult audience and said that what was
needed for youth today is to get them interested in
real life by working with their hands, and with tools,
through making toys, and discovering what they can
do.
He said that the prevelance of video games, toys
and computers, and television has lead to an increas
ing number of youth who do not know how to work
with their hands, or know what they can do because
no one shows them.
He said that what children need are parents who are
more than “concerned”, but parents who are willing
to provide attention, patience, and guidance, instead
of being adults who buy toys, and then send them off
to play.
Metzel said that his collection of homemade toys
that he displays (not for sale) demonstrate a wide var
iety of hand skills that can be developed and which
can help a child become an innovative, independently
thinking adult.
Del Voight, who was recognized for completing
his Erst year with the extension program, presented
master gardner awards, which acknowledge success
ful completion of the program and the number of
hours volunteered to helping others learn about
gardening.
A 20-page annual report of the county’s past year’s,
extension activities was also distributed and those
who received them were asked to share them with
others unfamiliar with the opportunities through
extension.
For more information on extension services, which
are paid for through taxes, contact a local office. In
Lebanon, call (717) 270-4391.
Chester
made last year to Albania through the auspices of
Volunteers In Overseas Cooperative Assistance
(VOCA) program. He told those that while Romani
a is also, like many eastern Europian countries,
struggling away from Communism, there is still a
long way to go. But their visit provided the seeds of
change and taught him and Betty how little we
appreciate the lives we lead in our own great
country.
At die banquet, board directors were elected to
three-year terms. They are Richard L. Breckbill,
Cathy Guest, and Eileen Schafer. Breckbill, owner/
operator of Breck-A-De Farm in Oxford with wife
Portia and sons Dennis and Edward, operates a dairy
with 85 registered Holsteins and farms 1,500 acres.
He also operates a fertilizer supply and custom
operator service. Guest, who operates Century Oaks
Farm with husband, Stanley, milk a herd of 95 regis
tered Holsteins and farm 300 acres in Pottstown.
The Guests have two children, Christy, 9 and Brad,
5. Schafer, Downingtown, actively involved in
nutrition education at both the county and state
level, has served the extension board for the past
three years and has been re-elected to save another
term.
Also, Claudette Thaip was honored with the
Dewitt Wallace Youth At Risk Award at the
banquet.
Alletta Schadler, Lebanon County extension director,
holds a Nlttany Lion statue she Is presented In recognition
of her 25 years service.
At the Chester County Extension banquet, board direc
tors were elected to three-year terms. From left, Eileen
Schafer, Cathy Guest, and Richard L. Breckbill
State Accepts
Agribusiness Award
Nominations
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
State Agriculture Secretary
Boyd E. Wolff is accepting nomi
nations for the Department of
Agriculture’s 1995 Agribusiness
Achievement Awards. The awards
are presented to Pennsylvania com
panies that have made a special
contribution to the development
and expansion of Pennsylvania
agribusiness.
First place awards will be
given in two separate categories:
large agribusinesses, defined as
those with gross annual sales over
$5 million; and small agribusi
nesses.
“The Agribusiness • Achieve
ment Award is an important
opportunity to recognize the pep
ple who contributed so much to
Pennsylvania’s leading industry,”
Wolff said.
Last year’s award recipients
were Knauss Snack Food Compa
ny, manufacturer of a line of
shelf-stable meat snacks sold
under the Bull and-Hanna Brands;
Moyer Packing Company, pro
ducers of boxed beef, ground
beef, variety meats, hides, tallow
and poultry meals; and the Brown
Adobe, distributor of all-natural
homemade New Mexican style
salsas, sauces, spices and condi
ments.
“These award-winning firms
are the kind of companies that
have helped establish the reputa
tion for high quality that con
sumers expect from Pennsylvania
products,” Wolff said.
Awards are to be presented at
the annual Farm Show dinner on
Jan. 7 at the Harrisburg Hilton in
Harrisburg.
The deadline for receipt of
completed award applications is
Nov. 30. Contact the Department
of Agriculture’s Bureau of Market
Development at (717) 787-4210
for more information or to request
an application.
Dairy Foods