Hardy County Points of Pride

• Community and special-interest 4-H clubs have 350 members led by 70 adult volunteers. County 4-H'ers completed more than 350 projects.
  
  
• More than 200 families received pesticide safety information, and 110 individuals were recertified as private pesticide applicators last year.
  
  
• "Beginning Steps," the Hardy County Child Care Center, has an average daily attendance of 70 children from 46 families.
  
  
• The 280 Community Educational Outreach Service members volunteer approximately 34,000 hours to community service annually.
  
  
• Hardy County Family Issues Task Force established a countywide tobacco coalition, which used a $1,000 grant to conduct educational programs to involve 15 youth in peer education programs.
  
  
• Extension faculty offered 32 classes to 250 people at the annual state Poultry Festival's "Festival of Ideas."
  
  
• More than 200 4-H'ers and 50 volunteers take part in planning and conducting two weeks of 4-H camp at Camp Pinnacle, which is owned by the county 4-H program. Eighty 4-H'ers and 50 adults participate in a multicounty horse camp.
  
  
• The county Health Fair blood screening reached 550 residents.
  
  
• Six monthly Family Times newsletters were distributed to parents of kindergarten students in two schools.
  
  
• Thirty diabetic clients participated in 8 diabetic education learning sessions.

WVU Hardy County Extension Office
Courthouse - Room 103
204 Washington Street
Moorefield, WV 26836-1155
(304) 538-2373
FAX (304) 538-6995

Last modified March 3, 2003
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