Fayette County Points of Pride

• Families are making better food choices, saving money, and improving their food safety practices after enrolling in the Family Nutrition Program. Food recalls and behavior checklists completed at graduation show positive changes in Fayette County participants.
  
  
• Do you want to learn how to prepare healthy, low-cost meals? Do you want to get moving with some fun physical activity ideas? Ask us how you can participate on the Family Nutrition Program!
  
  
• Do you have a strong interest in gardening, a willingness to learn, and most important, the desire to help others? Ask about our Master Gardener program. Fifteen participants completed the educational part of the Master Gardener program this year. For them to become certified, they will give 30 hours of community service for the first year and 6 hours a year after that to become recertified.
  
  
• Agriculture produced $1,573,000 of income in Fayette County. The main agriculture emphasis is on education and marketing.
  
  
• Fourteen youths have shown interest in agricultural projects and have begun an agriculture club.
  
  
• Eight local or school-based and three special-interest 4-H clubs in the county are meeting the needs of more than 250 4-H’ers.
  
  
• The 4-H Teen Leaders organize community service projects, plan countywide 4-H events, and serve as camp counselors.
  
  
• Updates on Extension Service programs, activities, and impacts can be found in a weekly newspaper article. Each week focuses on a different Extension area: Health and Nutrition, Agriculture, 4-H and Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences.
  
  
• According to a study by Josephson Institute of Ethics, moral behavior among high school students in the past 10 years has significantly declined. Cheating, lying, and stealing have increased as much as 9%. “Character Counts!” is a program that educates children, adolescents, and adults on the value of acting in a moral manner. The program addresses these concerns by reaching out to community groups and partnering with schools.
  
  
• Eighty-four CEOS (Community Educational Outreach Service) club members participated in numerous WVU-prepared study topics. CEOS members volunteer in their community through individual contacts and community agencies and programs that promote health, nutrition, personal growth, citizenship, and child development. If you are a concerned citizen who wants to support community education through volunteerism, contact the WVU Extension office.
  
  
• Active for Live, a comprehensive health education program, offers low- to-moderate-intensity exercises to older adults. The program also addresses their social, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs. For information about a program near you or for starting a program, call us.
  

WVU Fayette County Extension Office
104 E. Wiseman Avenue
Fayetteville, WV 25840
(304) 574-4253
FAX (304) 574-4321

Last modified July 1, 2003
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