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HAPPENINGS
Elm-Penryn 4-H Club
Elm-Penryn 4-H Community
Club members enjoyed a pizza
party at the last scheduled
meeting of the club for the sum
mer, held at Pleasant View
Retirement Community on June
15 with seven members, one
leader and one parent present.
The meeting was called to
order by the club organizational
leader and members answered
the roll by telling their favorite
hobby, sport, or project. The
Pledge of Allegiance was led by
Julia Boyer, and the 4-H Pledge
was led by Elisabeth Stahl (Cara
Hershey held the flag.) The min
utes from the last meeting were
read and approved. Alicia Waltz
was a guest of Elisabeth Stahl.
Everyone helped themselves
to the pizza as the business part
of the meeting was conducted. In
old business, activities for the
club roundup (which is to be
held at Pleasant View on
Saturday, July 18, from 6 p.m. to
8:30 p.m.) were planned in
detail. All club members will be
informed of the roundup
through the phone chain, and a
press release announcing this
event will be sent to area news
papers in early July.
Snacks were being munched
on as new business was dis
cussed. It was decided to begin
the 1998-99 Elm-Penryn 4-H
Community Club in October. A
meeting to reorganize is planned
for Friday, Oct. 23. It will be at
this meeting when area children
and youth ages 7-18 may regis
ter for membership and sign up
for project classes. Members put
together a list of suggested pro
jects to be offered during the
1998-1998 club year. They hope
to include woodworking, back
packing/camping, geology, ento
mology, sewing, cooking, bas
ketry, advanced photography,
fire safety, rocketry, bee keeping,'
child care/babysitting, health/first
aid, strawberries, forestiy/trees,
fishing, candy making, crochet
ing, beading/crafts, cake deco
rating, pet care, rubber stamp
ing and pottery/ceramics.
Members planned the
Monday evening club meetings
that will begin in November
1998 and continue once each
month through June 1999. The
special features of these club
meetings were planned to
include swimming, basketball,
special guest speakers from the
Humane Society, Pennsylvania
Fish and Boat Commission,
Pennsylvania Game Commission,
Penn Township police depart
ment, and a local child care
facility. Additionally, it is hope
ful that a candy maker will do a
tasty demonstration for us.
In the upcoming club year,
Julia Boyer will hold the office of
photographer, and will also be
sharing the office of secretary
with Stephanie Keller. Information
about the 1998-1999 Elm-
Penryn 4-H Community Club,
including member registration,
projects offered and club meet
ings, will be mailed to current
club members by the 4-H office
in the fall.
There were several communi
ty service activities made avail
able to club members beginning
the week of June 14. Elisabeth
Stahl, Stephanie Keller, and
Julia Boyer volunteered for
some of the activities to be held
in Pleasant View Retirement
Community.
ADADC used local milk processor's products in profes
sional photos for newspapers to explain new labels for
skim and 2% milk, which took effect on Jan. 1,1998.
ADADC Uses New Milk Labels
To Promote New Products
SYRACUSE, NY -
As of Jan 1, 1998 all
milk processors were
required by the FDA
to change labels on
skim and 2 r h milk to
reflect new, more accu
rate names fore these
products
The American
Dairy Association and
Dairy Council, Inc
(ADADC). used milk
cartons from local
processors like
Farmland Dairies,
Upstate
Tuscan-Dellwood,
Welsh Farms,
Crowley, and
Sunnydale on televi
sion and in newspa
pers to explain the
new changes to con
sumers
The exposure in the
media was also used
by ADADC to show
consumers styhsh_
new milk packaging
and provide them with
information on the
many new milk prod
ucts being offered
locally by processors
In Syracuse, on
CBS affiliate WTVH
TV, ADADC show
cased the bright, color
ful new Holstem-pat
tern graphics appear
ing on Upstate Farm's
premium line of milks
Articles in newspa
pers ranging from the
tiny Sullivan County
Democrat which
reaches 8,000 peqple,
to Clifton, NJ's
Dateline Journal
l
which reaches 65,000
people, to New York
City's Staten Island
Advance that reaches
„ 80,000 people, made
consumers aware of
such new products as
Upstate Farm's "Milk
For Life," Farmland
Dairies' "Special
Request," and
Sunnydale's "Natural
By Nature."
Farms