Monthly Archives: August 2002
Alumnus recounts 4-H days, gives $50,000 to new center
Former 4-H'er Tiney McComb and his wife, Helena, along with his bank based in Gahanna, Ohio, pledged $50,000 to the new Ohio 4-H Center to be built on the OSU campus in Columbus.
USDA depopulating Texas dairies
In a last ditch effort to get rid of bovine TB in Texas, the USDA is taking the drastic measure of buying out the dairy farms in El Paso County to create a buffer zone between the U.S. and tuberculosis-infected farms of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Twin sisters break sales records at Summit Co. Fair livestock sale
Twins Lisa and Amy Bourgeois took both the grand and reserve champion titles for their steers at the Summit County Fair last week and sold them at the fair's highest prices in history.
Lisbon 4-H’er and gymnast places in top one-third at national competition
Columbiana County 4-H'er Sara Stryffeler can show sheep and cattle as well as she can tumble and flip.
In honor of dad: Two 4-H members earn money for father’s disease
It's hard for young Audra and Jackie Plumley of Burton to show their dairy cattle this show season, in the wake of their father's death, but they're using the opportunity to raise awareness and funds for PanCAN, a non-profit group that supports pancreatic cancer research.
Disease threatens summer shade tree
This fungus and the disease it causes, Dutch elm disease, is one of the most devastating shade tree diseases in the United States, and the disease has not left Ohio unmarred.
Center in Beaver Creek State Park allows visitors to get close to nature
The Beaver Creek State Park Nature Center is designed for anyone, especially schools who would like to teach about nature outside of the classroom.
New Ohio guidelines: 4-H volunteers face record, fingerprint checks
New state rules on volunteers affect all people working with youth; 4-H revamps policy.
Pondering the strange, but true
Editor Susan Crowell mulls the oddities of human nature and governments.
