Achievements & Lifestyles: July/August 09

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ALAMANCE COUNTY Farm Bureau is proud to sponsor the 2009 Farm Bureau Farm Experience Tour on Sept. 26 and invites everyone to travel a scenic route through northeastern Alamance County to discover some of agriculture’s hidden gems.
After visiting five farms, the tour will conclude with a dinner of locally grown foods at Martin’s Chapel Church in the Pleasant Grove community. The cost for the tour and dinner is $5 for adults and free for children under 12. For more information, call Alamance County Farm Bureau at (336) 226-2477.
ANSON COUNTY Farm Bureau’s Board of Directors recently played an instrumental role in writing the county’s Voluntary and Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District Ordinance. The board sponsored the first meeting, and directors Bobby McCollum, Kevin Martin and Robert Ross served on the steering committee that wrote the ordinance.
County commissioners officially adopted the ordinance March 3. Farm Bureau members are now working with Anson County Cooperative Extension to implement and oversee the ordinance for county landowners.

Beaufort County Farm Bureau Member Horace Harris celebrated his 100th birthday April 1. BEAUFORT COUNTY Farm Bureau Member Horace Hilton Harris passed an important milestone April 1, when he celebrated his 100th birthday. Harris is a charter member of Tyrrell County Farm Bureau and is listed as an agent on an original program for the dedication ceremony of the Tyrrell County Farm Bureau office Sept. 23, 1937. Friends and family celebrated Harris’ birthday with a party in his honor.
Bladen County Farm Bureau and State Women’s Committee Member Brenda Brisson works with a student at Dublin Primary School.Bladen County Farm Bureau and State Women’s Committee Member Brenda Brisson volunteers in the classroom and chaperones field trips for first-graders at Dublin Primary School. Brisson promotes agriculture through her work with the students.
Camden County Farm Bureau member Rene Russell drops off hay for Project Grow. CAMDEN COUNTY Farm Bureau recently helped with Project Grow, a community gardening effort that provides garden space and assistance to people who want to grow a garden and to the Salvation Army Food Bank of the Albemarle. Farm Bureau donated materials and gardening assistance.
Audrey Quinn, Betty Wood, Rep.William Wainwright, Hannah Cox and Bettie Rehm pose together after meeting during NCFB’s Legislative Event. CRAVEN COUNTY Farm Bureau had several members of its Women’s Committee and Board of Directors at NCFB’s Legislative Event.
Craven County President Jason Jones, Rep. Alice Underhill, Sen. Jean Preston, and Vice President Glen Ipock pose together at a Legislative Breakfast.CRAVEN COUNTY Farm Bureau’s Women’s Committee and Board of Directors sponsored a Legislative Breakfast at Health Farm, owned by board secretary Donald Heath.
Sen. Jean Preston, Rep. Alice Underhill, Robert Page and NCFB State Legislative Director Paula Gupton-Page, assistant Extension agent Mike Carroll, Craven-Carteret FSA Executive Director Kay Yates were among the attendees.
Craven County Farm Bureau President Jason Jones and Women’s Committee members serve soda and cookies during a DWI Awareness Program at West Craven High School. CRAVEN COUNTY Farm Bureau recently helped sponsor a DWI Awareness Program for juniors and seniors at West Craven High School. The Women’s Committee and County President Jason Jones served soda and cookies to students participating in the program. The students drove golf carts through an obstacle course while wearing Fatal Vision goggles.
Kenansville firefighter Lee Graham shows women’s committee member Ann Lyles the proper way to use a fire extinguisher. DUPLIN COUNTY Farm Bureau’s Women’s Committee hosted members of the Kenansville Fire Department for a safety presentation on fire extinguishers.
Department members Lee Graham, David Kilpatrick and Alan Jones talked to the group about different types of fire extinguishers and what extinguisher to use on certain fires.
FRANKLIN COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee members presented Award Jars to first-graders at Bunn Elementary School. They also gave goody bags to the school’s seven first-grade teachers, six teacher assistants, the assistant principal and the principal.FRANKLIN COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee members presented Award Jars to first-graders at Bunn Elementary School. They also gave goody bags to the school’s seven first-grade teachers, six teacher assistants, the assistant principal and the principal.
Silas Dorsey, son of Franklin County Farm Bureau Members Matt and Alyssa Dorsey, won Grand Champion in the beef heifer category and first place in junior beef showmanship.FRANKLIN COUNTY Farm Bureau was a co-sponsor of the 19th Annual Four County 4-H Junior Livestock Show held in April at the Double “D” Farms in Louisburg. Youth from Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren counties participated in the regional show, which was a cooperative effort among the staffs of those four county Cooperative Extension offices. Silas Dorsey, son of Franklin County Farm Bureau members Matt and Alyssa Dorsey, won Grand Champion in the beef heifer category and first-place in junior beef showmanship.
HENDERSON COUNTY Farm Bureau Member Fred Pittillo has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 Swisher Sweets Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year Award. Pittillo is the owner of the family business Turf Mountain Sod, where they operate 1,200 acres in Hendersonville. He and his wife Merle began their successful career in sod after making the switch from dairy farming over 20 years ago. Pittillo will receive a check for $2,500 and other prizes. He will represent North Carolina at the Sunbelt Expo in Moultrie, Ga. where he will compete for the Southeastern Farmer of the Year Award. The winner will receive $14,000 and free use of a Massey Ferguson tractor of his choice for 12 months or 500 hours, whichever comes first, plus other prizes.
HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau brought NC Ag in the Classroom Director Louise Lamm, Curriculum Specialist Ellen Gould and County Ag in the Classroom ambassador JoJo Nichols to The Ridgecroft School for training on “The Farmer Grows a Rainbow” curriculum kit.
The lessons are for students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and connect nutrition and fitness to core curricula and the source of food, the farmer. HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a Blood Drive at Ahoskie Methodist Church in Ahoskie, and 48 people donated. Helping with the event were Monica Spitznagle, Kay Greene, Gladys Brown, Katrine Spruill, Brenda Copeland, Patricia Hughes, Pam Jenkins, Evelyn Rawls, Andy Woodard, Johnny Farmer, Jean Dilday and Addison Hoggard.
HERTFORD COUNTY Farm Bureau sponsored a Blood Drive at Ahoskie Methodist Church in Ahoskie and 48 people donated. Helping with the event were Monica Spitznagle, Kay Greene, Gladys Brown, Katrine Spruill, Brenda Copeland, Patricia Hughes, Pam Jenkins, Evelyn Rawls, Andy Woodard, Johnny Farmer, Jean Dilday and Addison Hoggard.
Bethany Pugh takes questions from kindergartners at Mattamuskeet Elementary School in Hyde County. HYDE COUNTY Farm Bureau members Dawson and Bethany Pugh recently visited kindergartners at Mattamuskeet Elementary School in Swanquarter. They read “The Busy Barnyard” to two classes. They also brought the students corn and showed them toy farm equipment.
JOHNSTON COUNTY Farm Bureau helped organize Ag Awareness Day at Princeton Elementary School. During the day, children made candles.JOHNSTON COUNTY Farm Bureau helped organize Ag Awareness Day at Princeton Elementary School. During the day, children made candles.
Jones County Young Farmers & Ranchers (from left) Candice Eller, Jacob Morgan, Darrin Lee, Justin Banks, James Lee, Trent Scott and Rebecca Scott spread mulch and made beds for the environmental center at Pollocksville Elementary School. JONES COUNTY Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers recently helped with the environmental center at Pollocksville Elementary School by spreading two large piles of mulch and making three beds.
JONES COUNTY Farm Bureau Members Trent and Rebecca Scott and her brother, Philip Carpenter, traveled to N.C. State University to cook a hog and fixings for a barbecue-plate sale to benefit the Alpha Zeta agriculture honor fraternity. The fundraiser was part of Ag Awareness Week, and Rebecca and Phillip’s sister, Amanda Carpenter, is a member of Alpha Zeta.

MECKLENBURG COUNTY Farm Bureau recently sponsored a fundraiser at Oehler’s BBQ Barn that raised more than $15,000 for the family of William Cook, who was a longtime Farm Bureau member and dairy farmer who died in October at age 54. He left behind two
special-needs children.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY Farm Bureau hosted an information hearing on establishing a Voluntary Agriculture District in Montgomery County.
Speakers included county president Benny Hampton and Tommy and Vicky Porter from Cabarrus County, who were instrumental in establishing a district there. All five county commissioners and 125 people attended the meeting.
Colin Brickhouse with his cow Amy and calf Rocky at Pasquotank County Schools’<br /> Wake Up to Ag Day. PASQUOTANK COUNTY Farm Bureau’s Women’s Committee recently helped with “Wake Up to Ag Day,” an event for county third-graders. Women’s Committee Members prepared bags containing pencils, tattoos, and corn seeds in dirt for students and teachers. They also had a display of cotton, barley, corn, milo, soybeans and products made from those things for students to see and feel, as well as pictures of farm animals and plants.
Also, Pasquotank High School freshman Colin Brickhouse, the son of county president Kevin Brickhouse, attended the event with his Angus Maine Cross cow, Amy, and her calf, Rocky. Colin, 15, is in his first year of FFA.
PAMLICO COUNTY Farm Bureau Member and North Carolina Farm Bureau Vice President Scott Whitford was recently honored with a plaque for his years of dedicated service, including serving as chairman, to the N.C. Pesticide Board.

PAMLICO COUNTY Farm Bureau Member and North Carolina Farm Bureau Vice President Scott Whitford was recently honored with a plaque for his years of dedicated service, including serving as chairman, to the N.C. Pesticide Board.

Scotland County Farm Bureau has given money to 4-H’s Health and Fitness Boot Camp. Pictured are (back row, from left) Neal Locklear, agency manager; Donna Locklear, women’s committee member; (front row, from left) Joe Barnhill, board president; Hazel McPhatter, 4-H EFNEP Associate; Joann Barnhill, women’s committee chairperson; and Diane Stokes, women’s committee member.

SCOTLAND COUNTY Farm Bureau has donated funds to the 4-H Health and Fitness Boot Camp, which runs June 15- August 20 at the Laurel Hill Community Center.
The camp will offer about 200 Scotland County youth to participate in activities such as Tae Bo, dancing, fitness games and more to learn the importance of healthy eating and exercise.
Wake County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee Member Shirley Burt reads to kids at Sunrise United Methodist Preschool in Holly Springs. WAKE COUNTY Farm Bureau Women’s Committee Member Shirley Burt visited with students April 18 and 19 at Sunrise United Methodist Preschool in Holly Springs. All nine classes got to hear a story about life on a farm and make greenhouses to take home. Students were also given a Rudy Rooster coloring book, and teachers were given goodie bags with Ag in the Classroom brochures.
WAKE COUNTY Farm Bureau recently helped with Planting Days WAKE COUNTY Farm Bureau recently helped with Planting Days at the garden at Willow Springs Elementary School. Willy the Safety Squirrel was joined by Women’s Committee Member Michelle Dupree to welcome students to the garden and remind them of safety rules to follow. County Vice President Richard Jenks helped students plant seeds, and Wake County Farm Bureau donated garden tools and $1,000 toward the purchase of a greenhouse. Furthermore, the Women’s Committee provided refreshments to students and presented “The Farmer Grows A Rainbow” kit to the school.
WARREN COUNTY Farm Bureau recently awarded a number of scholarships. Jacob Bender, son of Jeff and Lisa Bender of Norlina, and Erin Bender, daughter of Steve and Susan Bender of Warrenton, were selected as the 2009 recipients of Warren County Farm Bureau scholarships, which are worth $1,000 and are renewable for three years upon meeting certain criteria. Jacob, a senior at Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, plans to attend N.C. State University. Erin, a 2008 graduate of Warren County High School who has served in the National Guard, will attend St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Four Warren County High Schools seniors received one-time awards of $500. They are Marcus Hargrove of Warrenton, DeKisha Hendrick of Wise, Tyler Harmon of Norlina and Jessica Kearney.
Two students from North Carolina Farm Bureau families have won $1,000 FFA scholarships to pursue agricultural studies. Joy Askew of Jamesville and Elizabeth Eastep of Yanceyville are among 50 students nationwide who earned the awards, given by the National FFA Association in conjunction with the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Dodge Division of Chrysler LLC.
North Carolina Farm Bureau Member Dwayne Myers, a former NCFB director from Elkin, has been elected as the new president of the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative. Myers has been the First Vice President of the organization for the past five years, and he farms 800 acres and milks 800 cows with his wife of 35 years, Barbara, and their family in Jonesville.
Myers is also president of Dairy Cooperative Marketing Association, Southern Marketing Association, a current director and past president of Carolina Farm Credit, and a past president of the Wilkes Soil & Water Conservation District.
North Carolina Farm Bureau’s WOMEN’S COMMITTEE held a silent auction that raised $3,900 for the Ag in the Classroom program. The fundraiser was part of the Women’s Conference, held March 3-4 in Raleigh.
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  1. peggy Bradley on January 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm :

    Thank you so much Peggy

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