Auction ERIE (Erie Co.) The 24th annual Public Auction to benefit the Erie County 4-H/Youth De velopment Program is scheduled Saturday, May 3, at 9 a.m. The auction will be conducted indoors in the 4-H/FFA Youth Arena at the Waterford Fair grounds, located just south of Waterford on Rt. 19. Doors will open at 8 a.m. for inspection of merchandise. The facilities are handicapped accessible, and seat ing and refreshments will be available. The auction will feature more ‘Visualize Your Forest ’ Workshop Set EBENSBURG (Cambria Co.) Penn State Cooperative Ex tension and the Penn State School of Forest Resources is sponsoring a workshop for for est owners, foresters, loggers, and anyone else who has an in terest in the management of Pennsylvania’s forest resources. Dr. Jim Finley and his re search assistant, Paul Roth, will present “Visualizing Your For est” May 1 from 7-9 p.m. at the Penn State extension office in To Benefit Erie County 4-H than 1,000 new household and garden items, plants and shrubs, automotive goods and services, and numerous other items donat ed by area businesses and indi viduals. In addition, the event will feature a silent auction of hundreds of certificates for goods and services donated by business es throughout Erie and Crawford counties. According to Donna Fortin, Waterford, volunteer chair of this year’s event, all proceeds from the auction will directly benefit the county’s more than 2,150 4-H Ebensburg, located at 499 Manor Drive. Finley and Roth will discuss forest management issues in Pennsylvania and will present new technology that will enable resource managers and forest owners to view the effects of timber harvesting on their own property without ever cutting a tree. The new technology is a com puter imaging system that can take real-life forest data and implement different harvesting Grange To Host Luncheon CAMP HILL (Cumber land Co.) The Pennsyl vania State Grange is hosting its annual Grange Day Legislative Lun cheon, Monday, April 28, at 11:30 a.m. here at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center. The luncheon is an an nual opportunity for members of the 355 local Granges across Pennsyl vania to meet with their respective legislators and discuss issues of concern. This year’s luncheon will be attended by about 150 Pennsylvania Grange members and 40 legisla tors as well as representa tives from the National Grange office in Wash 4.90 Long Distance Service 4.9 c per minute, first minute, every minute, in your state, and in all 48 states. 6 second billing Cali JDS Telecom 1-888-315-1179 members. Funds raised will be used to provide these young peo ple with scholarships enabling them to attend a number of lead ership and citizenship develop ment programs, to help cover the costs of conducting the annual 4-H Fair, and to provide a variety of other 4-H programs and op portunities to the county’s young people. Among the items to be sold are a Jack Paluh numbered, signed, and framed print (101/650; “Gifts of the Meadow”), set to be sold at noon; a $5OO tuition waiver to situations. With this computer program, you will be able to un derstand how forests grow, how they respond to harvesting, and how they can regenerate them selves. This is a must see program for anyone making decisions that effect our forest resources. If you plan to attend the workshop, please call Mike Wolf, Forest Resources exten sion agent, at (814) 472-7986. The cost of the program is $3 per person. ington, D.C. Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Designee Dennis Wolff will be the keynote speaker and will present a proclamation from Gov. Ed Rendell naming April as “Grange Month.” Sen. Michael Waugh (R-28) and Rep. Sheila Miller (R-129) will read proclamations from their respective chambers. The luncheon will be followed by short semi nars presented by John Hines, acting deputy sec retary of water manage ment; Allison Topper. PANA; Dan Card, Mon santo; and Carl Meiss, Pennsylvania State Grange membership di rector. Mercyhurst College, set to be sold at 2 p.m.; a one-year family membership to the Greater Erie YMCA to be sold at 3 p.m.; a Joe Patemo autographed Penn State football; certificates for tickets to the Erie Playhouse, Jr.’s Last Laugh Comedy Club; the Erie Sea Wolves, and more; and land scape nursery stock, shrubs, and flowering plants, to be sold at the Grant To Help Preserve Manor Twp. Farm Renny McGill, director of development, Lancaster Farmland Trust, left, and R. Ted Bowers, Agriculture Lender, First Union Bank, and chairman of the board of the Lancaster Farmland Trust, center, receive a check from Doug Levering, director of programs and initiatives of the Lancaster County Foundation in acknowledgment of a $25,000 grant to help preserve a Manor Township Farm. LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) The Lancaster County Foun dation awarded $474,000 in grants to local nonprofit agencies recently, including $25,000 to help to enable the Lancaster Farmland Trust to preserve a 90-acre farm in Manor Town ship. The $25,000 grant to the Lan caster Farmland Trust will be used to help acquire a conserva tion easement for a 90-acre farm in northern Manor Township. An easement is a legal document that enables the Farmland Trust to acquire farmland to prevent future sale or development of the property, but also allows the farmer to continue to manage the acquired property and enjoy the rights that accompany owner ship. The farm borders West Hemp field Township, a rapid growth area that the Farmland Trust feared could eventually overtake the small farm. The Lancaster Farmland Trust is a private, nonprofit organiza- MRI - At Affordable Rates $475.00 Most Insurances Accepted • New state-of-the-art Open MRI • Most experienced Radiologists in the area • Friendly professional staff • Reports to your doctor within 24 hours’ y • We accept $475.00 as fult*|Sd^^ for a normal study, readin£|fee^ v _ - - - - _ It's Worth The Drive. Aski Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26, 2003-A39 end of the auction, but not before 4 p.m. All items will be sold by Auc tioneer Paul Holtz and his associ ates who have volunteered their professional services to 4-H again this year. Among the auctioneers will be Bill Anderson, Dave Turner, A 1 McLaughlin, and Tony Nero. Terms of the auction are strictly cash or known check and carry. No credit cards will be accepted. Anyone needing addi tional information should contact the extension office at (814) 825-0900. tion working to preserve the rich and productive farmland of Lan caster County, to support good stewardship of the land, and to encourage a thriving agricultural economy. The four-year-old Farmland Trust has helped Lancastet County fanners preserve 160 farms, more than 10,000 acres ot the most productive farmland in the world. The organization relies on contributions from individu als, businesses, and foundations to carry out its programs. The Lancaster County Foun dation, a community foundation established in 1924 by prominent local residents, is committed to supporting programs and proj ects that promote, sustain, and advance the quality of life in Lan caster County. A 12-member gov erning committee makes grant awards twice a year. Grant mak ing is focused in five primary areas: Arts & Culture, Commu nity Development, Education, Environment, Health, and Human Services. 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