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
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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-
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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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