Bifrijncistar Farming, Saturday, April 11, 1998
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The first East Rush
Community 4-H Club meeting of
the year was called to order at
2:15 p.m. on March 14.
First was the election of offi
cers. The results are president,
Megan Wescott; vice president,
Jen Grille;' secretary/news
reporter, Ben Hardic; treasurer,
Kelly Stockholm; and game and
song leader, Kyle Stockholm.
After the election, the leader,
Marie Hardic, gave out the pins
from last year. The members
decided that the dues would be
50 cents each meeting and dis
cussed idea for fund raisers: food
booths at the horse shows on
May 16 and another in July, and
maybe a rockathon if necessary.
The club thought of some new
ideas for community service.
One idea was to plant flowers
and clean up the churchyard.
The leader passed out the 4-H
code and conduct and registra
tion forms that were to be filled
out by each member.
The next meeting was set for
April 11. Members must enroll
before May 1. The Jones and
Chilson families will provide the
refreshments for the next meet
ing.
Baconeer's Swine Club
On Feb. 22, the Baconeer's 4-H Swine Club
had their first meeting. The members got
their club books back from the previous year.
Next they elected officers: president is
Brian Dana, vice president is Mike Snow, sec
retary is Ronalyn Corbin, treasurer is
Miranda Herbert, and reporter is Chad
Welch.
After the club elected officers, they dis
cussed the fund raiser. The last thing they
talked about was a pig roast at Harford Fair.
North Jackson Ag 4-H Club
The first meeting of the North Jackson Ag
4-H Club this year was held March 15 at the
home of John and Bonny Onyon. Families
met for a covered dish dinner before the busi
ness meeting. The meeting was called to
order by former President Matt Pavelski.
Pledges were led by Matt Pease.
Elections were held for officers. The
results were president, Andre Onyon; vice
president, Matt Pavelski; secretary, Abby
Onyon; treasurer, Katie Onyon; news
reporter, Beth Giangrieco; song/game leaders,
Tim Carey, Aaron Onyon, and Kyle Miller;
and historian, Sara VanCott.
This year's calendar was discussed, enroll
ment cards were completed, and projects were
chosen for the year. The club will be going
bowling April 4, with a meeting and pizza
party to follow at Onyon's house. The meet
ing was adjourned by president, Andrew
Onyon.
Pennsylvania 4-H First In Nation
On March 27-29, Pennsylvania became the
first state in the nation to host an innovative
seminar designed to pave the way for the
inclusion of youngsters with physical disabili
ties into their 4-H shooting sports safety pro
grams.
A NRA/SCI Disability Awareness
Workshop was presented as part of the annu
al Pennsylvania 4-H Shooting Sports
Weekend, which attracted close to 100
instructors to Camp Lutherlyn in Prospect.
The workshop was developed and conduct
ed by Dave Baskin, manager of NRA Disabled
Shooting Services and chairman of shooting
sports for the International Paralympic
Committee, which is based in Bonn, Germany.
Up until recently these workshops were
offered exclusively by the National Rifle
Association, but the value that the workshops
have provided to members of the hunting,
shooting, and outdoor recreation communities
resulted in Safari Club International joining
the NRA in the nationwide promotion of these
innovative educational seminars.
The workshop for the assem
bled 4-H instructors consisted of
two evening sessions. In the
first segment, Baskin provided a
history of disabled hunting and
recreation from the turn of the
century up through the dramat
ic changes immediately follow
ing World War 11. He continued
with an overview of the tradi
tions, customs, and commonly
held perceptions of citizens with
disabilities, including stories
about President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and the popu
lar cowboy character Hopalong
Cassidy.
The final phase of the work
shop was devoted to a display
and explanation of adaptive
shooting and hunting equip
ment. Baskin demonstrated a
unique spring-mounted rifle
support stand and two types of
mouth-operated trigger mecha
nisms for those individuals who
have diminished motor control
function in their fingers. One
apparatus was an electric "sip
'n puff design and the other was
a mechanical version.
The NRA/SCI Disability
We've just had a different
weekend as our son invited us to
his cottage in Virginia. It is
along the Piankatank River.
Now I had never even heard of
that river, so I was surprised to
see the enormous expanse of
water. The traffic on the way
there was very heavy as some
times there were six lanes in one
direction.
Kenneth has done a lot of
work on the cottage the past few
months and with his wife’s help
has decorated the rooms beauti
fully. His daughter helped to
wallpaper the rooms and his son
helped to put up a new televi
sion aerial. So, he really does
not rough it when he goes to his
cottage to relax. He tells us that
he can have a dozen people sleep
there at one time.
Awareness Workshop was
designed to provide the partici
pants with a better understand
ing of our disabled population.
Pennsylvania 4-H instructors
took away a heightened aware
ness of disability issues and
improved skills necessary to
teach youngsters with physical
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Well, we fished and we fished
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