814-Lanc«*ter Farming, Saturday, February 12, 2000
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster
Co.) Farmland preservation
increased the same year as 5,280
meetings were conducted in the
county, with an attendance ap
proaching about 50,000 people.
More than 3,000 4-H’ers carried
about 5,000 4-H projects.
This all took place last year,
“a very successful year” for the
county extension service, said
Eric Augsburger, 9, Lancaster, waits patiently for an
omelet from Ken Fisher. Eggs were donated by Saud
er’s.
Dairy royalty hand out ice cream sundaes at the Lancaster extension annual
meeting. From left, Elisa Ranck, dairy princess; Laura Hess, dairy ambassador;
Linda Hess; and Becky Sonnen.
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Lancaster County
John Schwartz, Lancaster
County Extension Service direc
tor.
Schwartz spoke last week at
the 87th meeting of the exten
sion service at the Farm and
Home Center.
At least 300 people attended
the social and meeting, featuring
lots of Lancaster County food
commodities served by various
representatives.
Schwartz outlined the accom-
New directors elected at the meeting, from left, Wilmer L. Shertzer, Columbia;
J. Ray Ranck, Paradise; Dorothy I. Strickler. Quarryville; and Harry E. Hershey
Jr., Mount Joy.
plishments of Lancaster County
extension, a “very important
year in Lancaster County agri
culture,” he said.
Schwartz noted that four
years ago the county conducted
the first of several meetings,
asking the question: will Lancas
ter County be the next Los An
geles? Will farmland be
purchased and developed, leav
ing nothing but strip malls and
housing projects?
Fortunately, with help from
“people and organizations, the
state legislature and the Lancas
ter county commissioners,” said
Schwartz, “farms are being pre
served.” And cooperative exten
sion is “conducting programs to
help maintain farming as a
viable occupation.”
The past year also marked 30
Year In Ag
Extension
years of the Expanded Food and tional education advisers
Nutrition Education Program “worked with 235 families with
(EFNEP), now 31 years old na- sio children under the age of
tionally. The past year the nutri- (i urn to Page BIS)
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A “toast” to the county’s dairy industry was provided
by Apryl Becker, dairy miss; Jenna Martin, dairy ambas
sador; and Angela Becker, dairy darling, at the Lancas
ter County extension annual meeting.