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Volume XXVI Number 10 May 4, 2018
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Extension celebrates 100 years in Morrow County
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Gallery opening at the SAGE Center BOARDMAN, OR, May 5, 2018 – Morrow County Extension is hosting a celebration and gallery opening at the SAGE Center celebrating 100 years of Extension in Morrow County. Guest speakers include State of Oregon Representative Greg Smith and Morrow County Commissioner Don Russell. The display will highlight current work by Extension in our area, as well as some highlights from the past. Current programs and research currently offered by Morrow County Extension include: 4H Youth Development, Juntos and Latino Outreach, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Education Program (SNAP-Ed), Livestock and Rangeland Management, Cereal Crops Agriculture as well as being served by the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center that serves irrigated agriculture, and Columbia Basin Agricultural
Research Center outside of Pendleton, Oregon that serves dryland producers in our county. “You will be amazed by the breadth and depth of the educational and research efforts of Extension in Morrow County”, says Mary Corp, OSU Extension Regional Director. “Extension has a local history of adapting to the needs of local communities with a focus on healthy farms, families and food over the past 100 years. Please come and help us celebrate (Above) Riverside FFA members with Mr. Jeppeson’s 3rd grade class. (Below) Students play an this rich heritage.” agricultural card game with FFA members. Photos contributed All are invited to attend the celebration and gallery opening, there will be no admission charge during the event time of 11 am to 1 pm. BOARDMAN, Ore.– During the ag lesson during the students’ li- ferent scenarios and have to make Presentations and remarks at 11:30 last week of April, several members brary time. The students learned decisions regarding their farm. am. Appetizers and refreshments of Riverside High School’s FFA the ‘Six F’s of Oregon Agriculture’ “The volunteers did an excelwill be served. Chapter volunteered with the – farming, food, fiber, fishing, flow- lent job of modifying their lesson To learn more about Extension, SAGE Center to teach the students ers and forestry, – then listened to to accommodate our younger stuor this event, visit the Morrow at Sam Boardman Elementary about the story, Apples to Oregon, which dents,” Orcutt said. “I especially County Extension website: agriculture and a bit of its history gave a fun-filled glimpse into the loved that all the kids learned a new http://extension.oregonstate.edu/ in Oregon. The volunteers led a real story of how Oregon’s first word ‘agriculture’ and its relevance morrow. hands-on activity connecting an orchards began. Partway through to our community.” American folk literature story with the lesson, the students divided Riverside FFA Vice President, modern-day farming and some of into small groups to play an apple Alexis Villegas, said she was exthe challenges that farmers must farming card game with the volun- cited to participate in the project. overcome. teers. The groups of students were “I had a lot of fun teaching the “The lesson is part of Oregon responsible for their own apple or- younger students about agriculAgriculture in the Classroom’s 2018 chard where they would face dif- ture and FFA.” Ag Literacy Project” said Stefanie Swindler, Education Coordinator at the SAGE Center. This is the eleventh year Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom, or OAITC, has held its statewide spring Literacy Project. “After learning more about the Ag Literacy Project, I knew it would be a great opportunity for Boardman’s FFA Chapter to promote agricultural awareness to our youth,” Swindler said. Sam Boardman Elementary Librarian, Anne Orcutt, invited the Questions: Call Jassiel 541/571-7904 group of volunteers to present their
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