Dangerous Chemicals In My House?
If cleaning products in our air quality or pollute the water (meaning it could catch fire), cor
homes-things like window clean- we drink! The federal govern- rosive or toxic chemicals have a
ers, tub and tile cleaners, fumi- ment requires that chemical DANGER label. And moderately
ture polish, paint thinners, and companies put warnings on the or slightly-toxic chemicals have a
even ammonia aren't stored labels of these chemicals-and it’s WARNING/CAUTION label.
properly they could make us a good thing. Highly toxic or poi- When buying cleaning prod
sick. sonous chemicals have a POI- ucts, be sure to read the label for
Strong chemicals change the SON label. Extremely flammable a list of ingredients.
How do turkeys grow so big?
Consumers-people who buy
products-demand lots of meat on
their turkeys, especially around
Thanksgiving time. Turkey
breeders-people who grow tur
keys-have to find ways to grow
bigger, meatier birds.
They do this with the help of
4-H
Airville 4-H Club
Elections were conducted Oct.
20. Officers for the year 2001 are
president, Daniel Watkins; vice
president, Steph Pomraning; sec
retary, Jess Robinson; assistant
secretary, Kim Pomraning; trea
surer, Holly Rankin; historian,
Nicole Watkins; news reporter,
Katrina Gore; song and game
leader, Janelle Matesich and
Emily Robinson.
The soup and sandwich sale is
Nov. 7.
Berries And Bees Club
The club’s last meeting was
Oct. 17, an achievement night.
Awards and project comple
tion certificates were handed
out to members. They had food,
snacks, apple juice, and apple
cider.
The York County Beekeepers
came and invited some mem
bers to go to the York County
4-H Extension Banquet Nov. 3.
The next meeting will be Feb.
13.
Anyone interested in joining
the Berries and Bees Club
should contact the York County
Extension Office.
Union County
4-H Teen Club
At this month’s meeting, the
Club elected new officers.
This year’s newly elected
teens are Jason Delhi, presi
dent; Grace Hockenberry, vice
president; Paul Maurer, secre
tary; Alisha Cox, treasurer;
Danielle Cox, news reporter;
and Jennifer Miller and Andy
Walter, social chair. New advi
sory committee chair is Alisha
Cox.
scientists like Karl Nestor. He
has been studying turkeys at
Ohio State University for more
than 35 years! To grow bigger
birds Nestor breeds certain sire
(male turkey) lines for growth
traits and dam (female turkey)
lines for reproduction character-
Recognition event will be Nov.
Jennifer Miller won the door
prize this month. Next meeting
will be Nov. 16.
Cedar Crest
Participants At The
All-American
Dairy Show
The Cedar Crest FFA recently
participated at the Pennsylvania
All-American Daily Show.
Members worked as tour guide
for elementary students in the
Harrisburg area. Members who
served as tour guides were Chet
Brubaker, Joel Krall, Jeremy
Balsb&ugh, B.J. Atkins, Beth
Kreider, Kris Keller, Samantha
Shepler, Sara Tribioli, and Travis
Krall.
They told the students about
different breeds of cattle, such as
Holsteins, Jerseys, Brown Swiss,
and Ayrshires. The tour guides
informed the children about the
different feeds fed to cows, such
as hay, ryeiage, com silage, hay
lage, and soybeans. They also
showed preschoolers how a cow
is milked. At the end of the tour,
the children realized that the
milk they drink was not made at
the store, but that it came from a
cow.
In addition to members serv
ing as tour guides, Daniel Eberly,
istics. It takes three generations
of turkeys before a change-like
more meat-can be seen. Because
producers are growing bigger
turkeys, leg strength is very im
portant. Without strong bones
and muscles, the turkeys can’t
support all that extra meat. So
scientists also breed turkeys that
will grow bigger, stronger legs
capable of carrying faster-grow
ing, heavier bodies.
One important factor in grow
ing turkeys is disease. As turkeys
grow larger, their ability to fight
disease decreases. Thaiiks to the
help of scientists, this problem
can be solved by breeding lines of
turkeys that produce more meat
and grow up healthy.
Hannah Bomgardner, Sarah
Krall, and Jared Zimmerman
participated in the dairy judging
team competition.
They competed against 25
teams from across Pennsylvania
and ended up placing first. They
will receive money and ribbons
for their efforts.
County FFA Has
Get-Acquainted Night
The Lebanon County FFA re
cently conducted its annual get
acquainted night at Joel and
Travis Krall’s farm in the form
of a bam party.
Approximately 35 people at
tended from the Northern Leba
non and Cedar Crest FFA.
Travis Adam, county presi
dent, opened the activity with a
welcome at 7 p.m. The other
county FFA officers were intro
duced. County FFA members
proceeded to play several “get to
know each other” games. The
guessing games were won by
Northern Lebanon members.
The participants at the barn
party were treated to a hayride
by Tom and Shirley Krall.
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York County Selects
FFA Outstanding Members
Senior students from each of
the York County schools with
FFA chapters are eligible to be
selected as the outstanding mem
bers of their local chapters.
Each person selected will re
ceive monetary awards sponsored
by the York County FFA. A com
mittee consisting of Pat Deibert
of the Lincoln Intermediate Unit,
Ed Heindel of the York office of
Farm Credit Services, and John
Smith representing the York Fair
selected the first- and second
place students from each chapter.
From those individuals placing
first in their chapter, an overall
county award winner was select
ed. The county award recipient is
Susan Richardson of Kennard
Dale FFA chapter. Richardson is
the daughter of Charles and
Ruth Richardson, Fawn Grove.
As a part of her FFA experiences,
she has had projects in sheep fin
ishing, swine finishing, dairy
heifer, and dairy herd.
Richardson is serving for the
second year as her chapter presi
dent and served as the treasurer
of her local FFA chapter during
her sophomore year. She was
chosen for the York County FFA
office of secretary last year and
president for the current year.
She has participated in and re
ceived numerous awards in York
County contests such as dairy
judging, creed and public speak
ing, agronomy, horse judging,
parliamentary procedure, and re
cordkeeping. She has also partici
pated in state contests of parlia
mentary procedure and dairy
showmanship.
Richardson has also been in
the marching, pep, and concert
bands in school as well as being
involved in other community or
ganizations.
First-place winners of other
chapters were Greg Daugherty,
son of Dennis and Betty Daugh
erty, Dover, Dover Chapter; Gab
briel Frigm, daughter of Terry
Frigm and Bonnie Euler, of the
Gifford Pinchot Chapter at
Northern York; Jennifer Eichel
berger, daughter of Robert and
Martha Eichelberger, Airville, of
the Red Lion Area Chapter; and
Jen Landis, daughter of Clyde
and Barbara Landis, York New
Salem of the White Rose Chapter
at York Vo-Tech.
Lindsay Jones, daughter of
Richard and Carol Jones, of the
East Berlin of the Dover Chap
ter; Jeromy Marsteller, son of
John and Christine Marsteller,
Stewartstown, of the Kennard
Dale chapter; and Holly Rankin,
daughter of Sharon Rankin, Red
Lion, of the Red Lion Area FFA
Chapter, received second-place
honors for representing their
chapters.
These outstanding students
will be completing applications
this fall in order to receive the
Keystone Degree, awarded by the
Pennsylvania FFA Association.
York County FFA
Names Scholarship Winners
Heather Bankert, the daughter
of Wayne and Sue Bankert, Red
Lion, has been selected to receive
the Carroll F. Thompson Schol
arship. The recipient was selected
by the York County Vocational
Agricultural Teachers Associa
tion to receive the scholarship,
given in memory of Carroll F.
Thompson, who was formerly a
vocational agriculture teacher at
Spring Grove and Dover high
schools.
Bankert is a 2000 graduate of
Red Lion Area High School and
has completed four years of agri
cultural education. During her
high school years, she partici
pated in activities such as live
stock judging, creed speaking,
meats judging, dairy foods, apple
judging, parliamentary proce
dure, recordkeeping, agricultural
salesmanship, and leadership
training conferences.
Bankert served as her local
FFA chapter treasurer for two
years and as vice president her
senior year. She also served as
the York County FFA secretary
during her junior year and as
president during her senior year.
As part of her FFA experi
ences, she has had projects of off
farm work experience, poultry
capons, sheep breeding, and
sheep finishing.
Banker! was also involved in
sports and was a tutor for a life
skills class in school as well as
doing volunteer work in commu
nity organizations.
She is enrolled as a student at
Millersville University with plans
of becoming a special education
teacher.
Angela Miller, daughter of
Robert Miller and Mary Lucken
baugh, was selected to receive the
York County FFA scholarship.
Miller is a 1999 graduate of the
Dover Area High School, where
she was enrolled in the agricul
tural education program. She is
studying English at Shippens
burg University with plans of be
coming a secondary education
English teacher.
Other students who
are also receiving
scholarships from
funds administered by
the York County Agri
culture Teachers are
Michael Burrell, son of
William and Carolyn
Burrell, Dover; Heath
er Crowl, daughter of
Ellis and Joyce Crowl,
Airville; and Jason
Deardorff, son of
Wayne and Bonnie
Deardorff, East Berlin.
The scholarship re
cipients must be grad
uates of an agricultur
al education/
horticulture program
in York County who
are continuing their
education in a post
high school institution
with selection based on
their future plans, fin
ancial need, leadership
activities, and scholas
tic performance.