Harrison County Points of Pride

• Nineteen college-student mentors at three sites instructed 148 kindergarten through fifth-grade students enrolled in Energy Express, a six-week summer reading program.
  
  
• Extension provided smokeless tobacco education to 630 third-graders in nine elementary schools.
  
  
• A weeklong county camp, held at WVU Jackson's Mill State 4-H Conference Center, offered more than 70 classes and educational programs to 225 youths.
  
  
• Extension addresses literacy by promoting storybook aprons and purposeful reading lists; we also train Read Aloud volunteers who read to schoolchildren across Harrison County.
  
  
• The Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS) has 742 volunteers in 40 clubs. They participate in community service projects and educational enrichment programs.
  
  
• Child care providers receive training and resources through workshops, newsletters, conferences, and meetings.
  
  
• Beef cattle producers attended eight educational programs on marketing alliances, genetics, drought management, and herd health. Litter from the Potomac River Basin is being used in the county as fertilizer.

WVU Harrison County Extension Office
Courthouse - Room 507
301 W. Main Street
Clarksburg, WV 26301-2986
(304) 624-8650
FAX (304) 624-8673

Last modified March 3, 2003
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