Boone County Points of Pride

• Eighty 4-H members and 15 volunteers complete projects and participate in community service activities.
  
  
• Thirty campers and 16 volunteers attended a weeklong residential county camp last year.
  
  
• Five 4-H volunteers attended the Northeast Regional Volunteer Leaders’ Forum.
  
  
• About 250 elementary school students are enrolled in the youth Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).
  
  
• With the theme “Blasting Nutrition into 2000,” day camps at Ramage and Sherman schools involved about 40 students each.
  
  
• Through the adult EFNEP program, 57 limited-resource families learn how to stretch their food dollars and prepare healthful meals.
  
  
• Extension works with the 75 members of the Corridor G Beekeepers Association, who cooperatively market their honey products.
  
  
• The office received a grant for $18,500 from the Center for Rural Health Development to study local health care. Economic developers and health care providers will use the findings as a marketing tool.
  
  
• Energy Express, a summer reading and nutrition program at two county grade schools, involved 80 students and 10 local college students who served as mentors.
  
  
• The Dining with Diabetes cooking schools in Whitesville and Wharton attracted 80 people.

WVU Boone County Extension Office
One Ave. C
Madison, WV 25130
Phone: (304)369-5869
Fax: (304) 369-9130