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Travis Krall, Matt Balmer, Sa- FFA members from Cedar Crest ma tha Shepler, Carl Eisenhauer, participated in Parliamentary Deb Schaeffer, Kyle Seifert, and Procedure, Conservation Speak- Tara Miller. The team placed ing, Senior Prepared Speaking, secon d Extemporaneous Speaking and Cedar Crest results in the the Creed Speaking contest. other county contests were Sarah Speaking contests require the f " Joel Krall second in participants to write a speech on Senior Pr d SpeaWng an agricultural related topic. It R . F Krei der first must be of appropriate length: c . ont u est ’ ,f eth . t,rst .’ six to eight minutes for Senior Frank second, and Prepared Speaking and Corner- » eather Hawlans third in the vation Speaking, four to six min- Conservat.on Speaking contest utes for Extemporaneous and a Chet Brubaker placed second maximum of three minutes to re- a nd Jeremy Balsbaugh placed cite the Creed. The Senior Pre- . In Extemporaneous pared and Conservation Speak- Speaking contest and Travis ing contestants must answer up Krall placed third in the Creed to five minutes of questions from contest. the judges. The Parliamentary All of the above Cedar Crest Procedure teams must put on a members will advance and com -20 minute mock meeting correct- pete in the -Berks, Lebanon, ly demonstrating many Parlia- Schuylkill area competition. Ilvento Named Chair Of UD Food And Resource Economics NEWARK, Del. Dr. Thom as W. Ilvento, associate professor of food and resource economics, has been named chair of the de partment of food and resource economics (FREC) at the Uni versity of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Re sources. He had been acting de partment chair since 1999. According to Dean John Nye, llvento’s appointment followed a nationwide search by a university committee. “Dr. Ilvento did an excellent job as acting chair and I am pleased he accepted the posi tion,” said Nye. “He has done a fine job in building relationships with the agricultural community on issues from land use and lead ership development to economic opportunities.” His new position offers many possibilities, said Ilvento, and he is excited and optimistic about his appointment. “FREC recently became home to the graduate statistics pro- In an article about maple syrup business printed in the March 31 Lancaster Farming, the number of gallons of syrup made by Patterson family was too high. Also, Mary Lee Zech man’s husband is Kenneth, not Richard. Lancaster Farming regrets the errors. 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I’m looking forward to taking advantage of the connections within these programs and dis covering how they can enhance each other.” Ilvento earned a bachelor’s de gree in community development and a Ph.D in rural sociology from The Pennsylvania State University. His master’s degree in research economics and com munity development is from the University of New Hampshire. He has served as associate pro fessor of food and research eco nomics and economic develop ment specialist for UD Cooperative Extension since 1996. Before his tenure at UD, he was associate Extension profes sor at The University of Ken tucky in Lexington, Ky. Correction 1