A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26, 2003
York Beef Club Presents Honors At Awards, Honors Dinner
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
SEVEN VALLEYS (York Co.)
Brenda Grubb has been named
the 2003 Citation Award winner
by the York County 4-H beef
club. Grubb has worked with the
beef club and its members for 10
years, assisting with project de
velopment, meeting, and show
activities.
Grubb’s presentation was the
finale of the annual beef club
awards and honors dinner, con
ducted at the Seven Valleys Fire
Hall. Members were also recog
nized for their achievements and
accomplishments during the
prior year of club activities.
Senior division roll call awards
were presented to the six highest
scoring members, based on their
responses and reports at club
Brenda Grubb was named the York 4-H beef club’s Ci
tation Award recipient for the year. Flanking Grubb are
presenters Gordon Shive and Beth Baer.
Delmarva Poultry Trade Group, Inc. Recognizes Achievements
GEORGETOWN, Del. Del
marva Poultry Industry, Inc.
(DPI), the trade association for
the local chicken industry, recog
nized nearly two dozen persons
and announced the results of its
membership campaign and Fund
Drive at its annual Booster Ban
quet and awards program recent
ly in Salisbury, Md.
Presented with DPl’s highest
honor, the J. Frank Gordy Sr.
Delmarva Distinguished Citizen
Award, was James A. Perdue,
CEO of Perdue Farms Inc.
Following his college and uni
versity education, Jim Perdue in
1983 returned to the family busi
ness as an entry level plant man
agement trainee. Over the next
eight years he worked in various
capacities. He was named chair
man of the board of directors in
1991. Under his management,
the company has grown to be
come one of the largest, most in
novative, and research-oriented
food companies in the United
States.
His company and Delmarva’s
poultry industry are nationally
recognized for their environ
mental protection pro
grams. Throughout ™ rm ™ n
the region, Mr. Perdue
has made innumerable
contributions to com-
munity and charitable
organizations. DPl’s
Medal of Achievement
awards were presented
to Virginia State Dele
gate Robert S. Bloxom
from Accomack Coun-
ty and Dr. Roselina
Angel, a poultry re-
meetings. High scorer was Cory
Thompson, with a points accu
mulation of 8.88. Second was
Amanda Thompson, scoring
8.64; Sara Grim, third, 8.52; Her
man Hake, fourth, 8.02; Kim
Long, fifth, 7.94; and Kyle Grim,
sixth, 7.88. Rookie roll call
awards were presented to Hames
Kinsley, first, Katie Shultz, sec
ond, and Morgan Livingston,
third.
South Central Pennsylvania
Cattlemen’s Association awarded
two Steer of Merit honors. Recip
ients were Jamie Welsh, first,
and Cory Thompson. Sara Grim
and Tom Welsh were senior club
members who received the classic
beef club “roast” as they com
pleted their final year of 4-H eli
gibility.
Sarah Grim and Beth Baer
searcher at the University of
Maryland College Park.
Delegate Bloxom has served in
the Virginia House of Delegates
since 1978. DPI cited him as a
successful businessman who has
brought to the General Assembly
a common sense, agriculturally
friendly, and business-oriented
approach.
Delegate Bloxom, in his last
year as a state legislator, under
stands the poultry industry and
its importance to the Common
wealth. He has worked with DPI
and its Virginia members on
countless issues over the last
quarter of a century.
Dr. Angel, a faculty member in
the Department of Animal and
Avian Sciences at the University
of Maryland College Park, serves
on several DPI committees, has
conducted important nutrient
management research funded by
DPI and the local poultry compa
nies, and has worked to improve
university communications with
poultry growers.
DPI also recognized Delmar
va’s outstanding poultry produc
ers. Selected from Delmarva’s
2,500 poultry growers, this year’s
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were recognized during the pro
gram as Farm Show scholarship
winners. Leader Tim Livingston
accepted an award honoring his
10 years as a club leader.
Two specialty cakes, baked
and donated by beef club parent
Belinda Myers, were auctioned
off to benefit the club’s treasury.
Myers is well known throughout
the York community for her bak
ing talents and perennial win
nings at area baking contests.
Kevin Grim and Mark Foose bid
last, at $5OO, for a pineapple up
side-down cake, then donated it
back for second round of bidding.
Baer Angus and Jason Baer
Trucking were the winning bid
ders at $l2O. William Dietz Sr.,
made the final bid of $lOO on a
chocolate peanut butter cake.
Tim Livingston was recognized by ex* Steer of Merit awards went to York 4-H
tension agent Linda Spahr for having beef members Jamie Welsh, left, and Cory
served ten years as a 4-H beef club leader. Thompson, right, presented by South Cen
tral Pennsylvania Cattlemen’s president
Dan Gross.
recipients are: William & Diane
Brooks, Milton, DE Perdue
Farms Inc.; Frank & Mariann
Bunting, Frankford, DE
Mountaire Farms of Delaware;
Harlan & Anita Davis, Preston,
MD Allen’s Hatchery, Inc.; Ra
zorback Farm, Salisbury, MD
Perdue Farms Inc.; Mark Gordy,
Delmar, DE Allen’s Hatchery,
Inc.; Jerrel & Alma Heatwole,
Greenwood, DE Tyson Foods,
Inc.; Freddy & Charlotte Hol
land, New Church, VA
Tyson Foods, Inc.; Herman f*
& Florence Kauffman, I
Greenwood, DE Allen’s t
Hatchery, Inc.; Joe & f
Doris Kulley, Sharptown, t
MD Perdue Farms Inc.; f
Jason & Kim Lambertson, I
Pocomoke City, MD I
Tyson Foods, Inc.; Ronald |
& Tammy Massey, Sea- Z
ford, DE Allen’s Hatch- i
ery, Inc.; Nellie Overholt, I
Westover, MD Moun- I
taire Farms of Delmarva;
Jerome & Ruth Pouska,
Millington, MD Perdue f
Farms Inc.; Jose & Cheryl I
Rodriguez, Cambridge, I
York 4-H beef club officers for the year include, from
left front, Amanda Thompson, assistant news reporter;
Mitchell Cuculis, historian; Luke Cuculis, news reporter;
issistant treasurer; rear, Kim Long, assistant
Richard Heineman, treasurer; Katie Myers,
lerman Hake, vice-president; and Beth Baer,
MD Tyson Foods, Inc.; Larry
G. Shockley, Snow Hill, MD
Tyson Foods, Inc.; Snowwis
Farm, Greensboro, MD Moun
taire Farms of Delaware;
Thornes Poultry, Inc., Stockton,
MD Perdue Farms Inc.; Frank
& Dolly Timmons, Delmar, MD
Perdue Farms Inc.; and The
John Townsend Family, Salis
bury, MD Mountaire Farms of
Delmarva.
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The 2003 Fund Drive was suc
cessful with a total of $457,244 in
cash and pledges. Fund Drive
Chairman, Joseph E. Chisholm
Sr. said, “In spite of a very diffi
cult year, the agricultural com
munity stepped up and support
ed DPI with its efforts and
dollars. I personally thank every
one for their continued support
of our industry.”