A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 21. 1995
Hiller Set To Open
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The president of the Pennsyl
vania Stale Grange is to open the
123 id edition of the Pennsylvania
State Grange convention by re
viewing the past year’s accomp
lishments while offering a vision
of the future to an expected audi
ence of more than 1,000 Grangers,
during the first full day of the
Slate Session, Oct. 23.
The Pennsylvania Slate Grange
convention runs Oct. 22-26 in
West Middlesex, Mercer County.
Hiller said one of the strengths
of the Peiyisylvania State Grange,
with more than 33,000 members,
is its legislative branch and grass
roots policies that govern the
Grange and influence decisions on
Capitol Hill.
“It is in Grange meetings where
good legislation has had its begin-
nings,” Hiller said, “and
where it will continue to
influence our legislators
as we protect Grange in
terests while serving the
agricultural and rural
communities.”
Grange-influenced
legislative accomplish
ments in 1995 include
passage of the Ag Edu
cation bill and under
ground storage tank
legislation, dismantling
of the Department of
Environmental Re
sources (DER), and
lowering the over-order
premium with the Penn
sylvania Milk Market
ing Board.
“There arc many
areas where Grange
policy must be inserted
and sustained,” Hiller
said. “Grange influence
and integrity remain
high, and we must con
tinue to expand our list
of legislative accomp
lishments while main
taining our vigilance in
Harrisburg and Wash
ington.”
. Hiller said the ac
complishments of the
past with a vision to
ward the future will
guide the organization
as the Grange continues
to tackle issues facing
communities and the
agricultural industry.
“The Grange must
continue to be a leading
force, in partnership
with organizations of
similar views, and re
cognize that agriculture
is now, more than ever
before, a business - big
business - and more than
a way of life, for that
way of life means simp
ly to exist We must do
more than that”
As a grass-roots or
ganization, policies are
formulated at the local
and county level and
then passed to the state
Grange in the form of a
resolution.
Once passed, the re
solution becomes
Grange policy and those
policies, which have
federal implications, are
submitted for considera
tion at the Natibnal
Grange convention in
November.
There are about 7 5 re
solutions that will be
Grange convention this year.
Some issues facing this year’s
delegate body are the 1995 Farm
Bill, strengthening the Agricultur
al Security Act, water use regula
tion, passage of the Delaney
Clause, building code regulations
and rural education reform
(School Choice).
This year’s session is being
hosted by Beaver, Lawrence and
Mercer counties.
“The Grange is a grass-roots or- Growth, community service,
ganization which gets its policies awards to the nuMtan/ting mbor
from the local granges in the form dinate (local) and Pomona (coun
of resolutions,” said Hiller. “Over ty) Granges, past officer awards
the years,the Grange has success- and the Granger of the Year
fully lobbied for such issues as award, the highest honor bestow
rural mail delivery, establishment ed upon an individual for service
of rural electric cooperatives and to the organization,
fairer prices for fanners. All these Youth members, ages 15-35,
policies started at a local grange will ufa center stage Sunday as
and were, then passed to the state they compete in the Public Speak
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123rd Pa. State Grange Convention
vcntion will be the State of Agri
culture Address from Secretary of
Agriculture Charles Brosius on
Tuesday afternoon, and the pre
sentation of the various depart
mental awards on Tuesday eve
ning.
Awards to be presented Tues
day evening at the All-Granger
banquet include the State Master’s
Award for Excellence in Com
munity Service and Membership
6:30 p.m. in the West Middlesex
High School auditorium.
“The competition in these
events is tough and the talent is
outstanding as youth members
battle for statewide honors and the
right to perform against their peers
horn around the country at the Na
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