Monthly Archives: August 2006

SALEM, Ohio - The Lawrence County 4-H Rural Teen Leadership Initiative got a boost this year with a $2,500 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. - When Americans think ethanol, they think corn. But corn isn't the only way to get ethanol.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. - A new project crossed the auction block at the Lawrence County Fair livestock sale this year.

FREEPORT, Ohio - You would think a professional forester gets enough of trees during the day. But Frank Corona can't wait to get home from work and head back out outdoors.

While reading through Good Poems for Hard Times, a collection of poetry selected and introduced by Garrison Keillor, I ran across a writing by Erica Funkhouser that could have been written by one of us.

Do you know where your thousands - and on a national scale, hundreds of millions - of federally-mandated, non-refundable checkoff dollars go? It's a question Bobby King, policy director of Minnesota's Land Stewardship Project, asked when he viewed advertisements that attacked "anti-livestock activist groups" in the state on Minneapolis' powerhouse WCCO television station earlier this year.

According to my internal calendar, fall is about four months down the road yet. In reality, the fall harvest season is fast approaching.

(As told by Josie Steeb) I felt great picking up my repaired Escort at the garage and even better knowing that I had paid for the repairs myself.

You just never know when you'll have a brush with greatness, or in my case, great fear. As near as I remember, I was cleaning a high shelf in the bathroom when there was a flash of movement, a flutter, and my momentary thought "oh, why is there a big leaf up here?" before the "leaf" became coherent enough to make a beeline (bat line?) for my hair.

MEDINA, Ohio - After a week of unfair-like weather with heat and humidity soaring, temperatures cooled off slightly at the Medina County Junior Fair Livestock Auction.