Officers of the Mt. Springs 4-H pose with the representatives of the companies
who bought their animals at the county fair. Holding banners, from left from are Amy
Schmuck, Jesse Brant, Megan Schmuck, Jill Brant, and Bonnie Sanner. Middle row,
Carol Walker, Theresa Brant, Judy Bird, Max Mosholder, and Eugene Yachere. Last
row, Greg Walker, W.J. Brant, Dr. Bob Bastian, Todd Piitts, William Richter.
Mt. Springs 4-H’ers Learn
Importance Of Choices
GAY BROWNLEE
Somerset Co. Correspondent
NEW CENTERVILLE
(Somerset Co.) “4-H is an ex
cellent choice,” Dr. Bob Bastian
told members of the Mt. Springs
4-H Club and their parents. He ex
plained that animal and other 4-H
projects teach kids about the re
sponsibility and accountability,
associated with their own choices.
“If we don’t put good ideas into
kids’ heads, we won’t get good
out,” Bastian said. “We’ll gel
junk.”
And putting good ideas into
kids’ heads doesn’t happen instan
taneously. The process happens
slowly while they are growing up
when they learn to respect the
law and gain their sense of patriot
ism from their parents, he said.
The veterinarian from the Ani
mal Medical Center of Somerset
County, Inc. spoke about his per-
There may be times that your
child(ren) need to be home alone
and may even be the first one in
the home. For those times when
your child is the first one home
both of you will feel much better if
you have discussed the situation
ahead of time. Following are some
questions and guidelines that you
can use as a guide for your family
discussion.
Ask your child If you are in
charge and the first one to arrive
home, what do you do? Get your
child’s input first, you may be sur
prised at how much they have
thought about this. Be sure to give
them credit for coming up with
some good ideas.
After discussing what to do,
you may want to make up some
“rules.” Keep these in mind as
well:
• If everything looks normal,
enter your house and lock the door
behind you.
• If something looks different,
like an open door or broken
window:
1. Do not go inside.
2. Go to a neighbor’s and call
home to see if a family member
sonal choice to challenge an in
cumbent and popular state legisla
tor in the district they are from, on
November 5.
When the votes woe tallied and
the doctor did not succeed, but lost
in his attempt to go to die state
house of representatives, he could
still say: “Neither my wife nor I
are sorry,” because they had
thrown themselves fully into the
challenge.
Sometimes, the lessons that
teach us the best are those in
which we try with all our heart,
but fail to accomplish something.
And if the good ideas have taken
root, there will always be another
chance to try again, and probably,
to do so with greater confidence
than we had the first time around,
was the essence of Basian’s words
to the group.
Dave Brant, however, seemed
to echo the sentiments of many
Coming Home
3. If no one answers the phone,
call a parent to see if someone was
Life Insurance
Do you need life insurance for
your children? The answer is that
you can probably get along with
out it The main purpose for carry
ing life insurance is to provide for
dependents in the event of the loss
of the income earner or for a
method of forced savings. But
some people want to take out poli
cies on their children. In most
cases there are better ways to use
the money.
If the purpose is to cover death
expenses, it can be more economi
cal to open a small savings
account as an all-purpose fund for
the child. If the purpose is to cre
ate cash value for later use, again a
for Kids?
fanners when he remarked that,
had Bastian won a seat in Harris
burg, Somerset County farmers
would be less one of the fine doc
tors of veterinary medicine that
practice in the area.
The collective group was cele
brating at the Milford Grange Hall
and throwing a dinner for the sup
porters of the Mt. Springs 4-H
Club.
Amy Schmuck, president, pre
sided over the affair with help
from the other officers: Jill Brant,
vice president; Bonnie Sanner,
secretary; Jesse Brant, treasurer;
Tammy Durst and Lindsay
Schmuck, reporters.
Other participating club mem
bers were Tim Albright, Leanna
Beachy, Roni Beachy, Angie
Brant, Matthew Brant, Megan
Schmuck, Travis Brant, Sanda
Durst, Nathan Faidley, Robbie
Harrold and Tim Latuch.
home during the day and find out
what to do.
savings account will usually be
better. Cash value policies usually
have little build up in value in the
first few years because the com
mission is paid with the premiums
in those years. Although there is a
tax advantage of not paying
income taxes on the build up of
interest in the policy, this is off set
by the insurance premiums you
are paying.
A better use of the money may
be to increase the life insurance
for the family’s primary income
earner or to take out a disability
insurance policy to cover income
loss when the earner is no longer
able to work.
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