y? Ashley Fessler, Mike Spencer,
the Amy Kling, and Eddie Wise.
5 ofThe top 10 contestants will
juu —A SS/€4COCdd' receive monetary FFA awards
from the county FFA fair fund.
Tim Emenheiser from the
USDA Natural Resources and
Conservation service was the of
ficial judge.
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Coming in second was Sarah
Wenger from Grassland, with
Erim Templin from Cedar Crest
placing third.
In the senior prepared speak
ing contest, Cedar Crest stu
dents took first and second
place. Sarah Krall placed first,
with Joel Krall placing second.
Mike Livingston from Conrad
Weiser placed third.
Margeaux Firestine from
Conrad Weiser placed first in
the junior prepared speaking
competition, with Karianne
Boyer from ELCO placing
second and Denise Gardner
from Conrad Weiser coming in
third.
In the FFA Creed competi
tion, Susan Leed from ELCO
placed first. Stephanie O’Brien
from Conrad Weiser placed
second, and Justin Miller from
W.B. Saul placed third.
Cedar Crest
The Cedar Crest FFA re
cently participated in the Leba
non County Land Judging
Career' Development Events.
The Land Judging CDE was
held in the Northern Lebanon
area.
Top placings from Cedar
Crest are as follows: Chet Bru
baker, first; Joel Krall, second;
Beth Kreider, third; Dan Eberly,
fourth; Erik Rheinheimer, fifth;
Chad Weaber, sixth; Amber
Frank, seventh; Andrew Gettler,
eighth; Brad Bucher, tenth; and
Michelle Zimmerman, eleventh.
Other Cedar Crest partici
pants included Kristen Stokes,
Jared Zimmerman, Dan Houtz,
LeAnn Smith, Heather Haw
kins, Megan Thorton, Amanda
Heffelfinger, Douglas Betz,
The seventh annual FFA
Conservation Day was held at
Beaver Adams Elementary
School in Beaver Springs and
West Beaver Elementary School
in McClure on April 13.
Junior High FFA members
planned, designed, and con
ducted all of the Hay’s activities
with the Senior High FFA mem
bers’ assistance.
Each elementary grade
learned about a different topic
involving the environment. Kin
dergarten learned about plants,
and each student planted a sun
flower seed and received a
flower.
In first grade, the students ex
plored forests and had a visit
from Smokey the Bear. Second
graders dug for information
about soils. Each of the students
learned about the importance of
earthworms and at gummy
worms.
Third grade students had a
presentation on the untamed
world of wildlife from Jerry
Smith, Wildlife Conservation
Officer from the Pennsylvania
Game Commission.
In the upper elementary
grades, fourth grade learned
about fish and aquatics, while
grade five dove into the topic of
water with Craig Bingman from
the Snyder County Conserva
tion District. Throughout the
morning, each sixth grade stu
dent built a bluebird house to
take home. A total of 68 junior
and senior high FFA members
participated in the event.
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(Centre Co.) Today’s youth
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leaders can fill that role. To help
adult and teen 4-H leaders
become better teachers and
youth counselors, Penn State
Cooperative Extension brought
together more than 100 volun
teers from across the state at the
2000 Pennsylvania State 4-H
leader’s Forum, March 31 to
April 1 in State College.
Pennsylvania has more than
10,000 adult 4-H leaders. Each
year, these volunteers work with
more than 125,000 rural and
urban Pennsylvania youth be
tween the ages of eight and 19.
Volunteers give more than 20
days to 4-H youth - the equiva
lent of more than 1,000 full-time
teachers in the field, or a contri
bution worth more than $2O mil
lion.
Today, 4-H also involves
youth of varied races and cul
tures, youth with disabilities and
youth that have not traditionally
taken part in the 4-H program.
Workshops at the forum fea
tured information on character
building, horse safety, the Japa
nese Exchange program, putting
4-H club information on the
World Wide Web, intergenera
tional programs, wildlife habitat
evaluation, assessing risk in
youth activities and using com
puters and the Web with 4-H
projects.
Other sessions focused on
building model horses, commu
nity service leadership, textile
science, techniques for sharing
positive spirit, foods and nutri
tion, woodworking and maxim
izing the abilities of people with
disabilities.
Marilyn Corbin (left) state program leader, congratulates
Alvena Kneasel, 4-H leader from Lebanon County whc at
tended the 2000 Pennsylvania State 4-H Leaders’ Forum,
March 31 to April 1, at the Days Inn in State College. The 4-
H leaders participated in workshops focusing on topics
that will help them become better teachers and coun
selors of youth.
Paradise 4-H’er Mary Zeng, right, and Katina Showman,
Lancaster County 4-H coordinator, discuss upcoming leg
islation with Rep. Thomas Armstrong, Sen. Noah Wenger,
and Rep. Arthur Hershey during Pennsylvania State 4-H
Capital Days held May 1-2 in Harrisburg. Zeng and 120
other 4-H’ers from across the state were selected to ob
serve how state government works by visiting 11 state
agencies. The students took part in a simulation workshop
in which they wrote grant proposals up to $lOO,OOO and
created a budget related to one of the agencies. Students
presented their proposals to a three-person panel and
joined 85 legislators for a legislative breakfast, program,
and capitol tour.
Uncastar Fanning. Saturday, Juna 3, 2000-827