WHITLEY SPEAKS OUT - "1 don't know of any other
program that gets more for their money than the
Agricultural Extension Service and Reasearch Service,"
stated Congressman Charlie Whitley during the Duplin
County Agricultural Extension Service Advisory Leader
ship Program Update breakfast. The breakfast was held at
The Country Squire and attended by over 200 persons.
Pictured (L to R) Riddick Wilkins, Advisory Chairman;
Whitley; Violette Phillips, a member of ALC; and Jimmy
Sauls. Past Chairman.
Duplin Agricultural Extension
Advisory Program Update Held
"Duplin County is No. 1 in
agriculture and we are going
to stay No. 1 because of you
here." stated Chairman R.E.
Wilkins Monday morning
during the connty agricul
tural extension service ad
visory leadership system
program update. The break
fast meeting was held at the
Country Squire restaurant
and attended by some .100
persons.
Mrs. Violette Phillips, a
member of ALC, introduced
the different committees and
persons who make up the
extension Advisory Leader
ship System.
The program update re
ports were given as follows:
agriculture, Gerald Bell;
home economics, Celia
Stroud; 4-H, Ruby BrinSon;
and community resource de
velopment, Roy Houston.
Update Report
Jimmy Sauls, past chair
man, gave a three-month
update summary, which in
cluded these facts:
During January, February
and March, 1982. there were
25 agriculture meetings
planned and conducted by
the Agricultural Extension
Service with a total atten
dance of 1.007 people. These
included such groups as
Young Farmers, tobacco
growers, corn producers,
soybean producers, and all
horticulture commodities.
There were 13 area and state
agricultural meetings that
274 people participated in.
There were 38 home eco
nomics meeting planned and
conducted with a total at
tendance of 941 people.
These included stress semi
nars. extension homemaker
workshops, food-buying
seminars, clothing and house
and house furnishings work
shops.
There were seven 4-H
meetings planned and con
ducted with a total atten
dance of 305 people. These
included county council
meetings, favorite food
show, public speaking con
test and 4-H leaders' meet
ings. here were also three
area 4-H events with 148
participating.
There were five commu
nity resource development
meetings planned and con
ducted reaching 61 people.
These include Agribusiness
meeting. Rural Development
Panel meetings and Neuse
Area Development meetings.
One area' CRD meeting was
held with 25 from Duplin
attending.
On a regular basis, news
letters and publications are
mailed to keep various cli
entelegroups updated. A
total of 21 different types of
newsletters, ranging from a
mailing list of 20 people to
1,960 people are mailed. In
addition, the staff made nu
merous farm and home visits
to help families with prob
lems and there were numer
ous phone calls made and
received which conveyed in
formation.
Agents write news articles
on a regular basis to help
keep the public abreast of
timely tips. An average of six
different articles are printed
weekly.
The four expanded foods
and nutrition education pro
gram aides who work on a
part-time basis, at the end of
March, had T80 different
families and 131 youth, ages
6-19 and 24 volunteers em
rolled in a program to help
them develop sound food
habits, learn to garden, to
freeze and to can a food
supply.
This does not include the
meetings held by volunteer
leaders in a 4-H program and
the extension homemakers
programs as a result of their
invol.-ment in organized
events and activities. These
groups meet on a regular
Ward-Phillips
Duo Raturns
With a voice that is lovely,
light and soprano, and with
fingers that dance the key
board sensitively, the Ward
Phillips Duo made a welcome
and fine return to Duplin
County, Many people will.re
member the exciting two
some that visited the county
during the winter of 1981.
Eleania Ward and Vincent
Phillips have delighted au
diences everywhere and
Duplin was indeed lucky to
have them return for a visit.
The couple performed at
several local schools and a
nutrition site. At the North
Duplin Junior High School,
Eleania conducted a work
shop with choral students
participating in vocal exer
cises and singing. The Duo's
performance was sponsored
by the Duplin County Arts
Council and was jointly sup
ported by a grant from the
N.C.A.C. and the National
Endowment for the Arts in
?Washington, D.C., a federal
agency.
SPRING RECITAL
Paino students of Mrs.
Ernesteen Summerlin will be
presented in their spring
recital on Saturday. May 15
in the Hoffler Auditorium at
James Sprunt Technical Col
lege.
Elementary grade
students will perform at 7
p.m. and junior high and
high school students at 8:15
p.m. Admission is free arid
the public is invited to at
tend.
WHALEY FAMILY
REUNION
The Jason and Ann
Whaley reunion is scheduled
for Sunday, May 16 at 1 p.m.
at the Masonic Lodge in
Beulaville. All relatives and
friends are invited to come
and bring a picnic basket and
beverage.
basis and agents are re
sponsible for working with
planning these. For example,
right now, Duplin County fire
safety programs are being
conducted through local fire
departments as a result of
4-H planning and training.
Several hundred boys and
girls are enrolled.
The extension service is an
educational agency which
helps people make for a
better way of life. Through
involvement in extension
programs, people continue to
develop their leadership po
tential. Sometimes we take
for grantbd that the
programs that the AES pro
motes has a tremendous
effect on the economy.
After the update report by
Sauls, Dr. Joe Phillips of the
state Extension office was
introduced by Chairman
Wilkins. "1 think you are
exactly right. Mr. Sauls.
Duplin County is really hard
to beat when it comes to their
Extension staff," com
mented Phillips.
Calvin Turner, chairmon of
the Duplin County commis
sioners. expressed deep con
cern about the possibility of
cutting the agriculture
teachers year to ten months.
Representative Doug Clark
told the group that Duplin
County was number one in
agriculture because of diver
sification.
Congressman Whitley was
called on for a few remarks.
"I don't know of any other
program that gets more for
their money than the Agri
cultural Extension Service
and Research Service,"
stated Whitley.
The Duplip County AES
advisory leadership system
program update may well
have been summarized by?
the last primed line on the
agenda. "Thanks For Your
Leadership!"
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