Marshall County Points of Pride

• The 250 Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS) members in 23 local clubs conducted many community and educational programs including the Festival of Ideas.
  
  
• A total of 1,630 students attended 72 health, nutrition, family relations, and resource management workshops. Healthy eating, diabetes education, communicating with children, and breast cancer detection were among the topics covered.
  
  
• The Festival of Ideas at the "Barn" and the Elizabethtown Festival in the former West Virginia Penitentiary drew 8,000 people. The 300 volunteers staged 200 activities. Community groups earned about $25,000.
  
  
• The county's two Energy Express sites reached 84 students in 2001. The six-week summer reading and nutrition program involved 145 volunteers.
  
  
• More than 500 youths belong to the county's 23 4-H clubs. Members displayed 450 project exhibits and showed more than 250 animals at the Marshall County Fair.
  
  
• The Extension office assisted with four education dinner meetings on agricultural topics, which were attended by 294 people.
  
  
• Nearly 50 people attended a workshop on pond problems and solutions, and 30 gardeners and homeowners attended a pest identification clinic.
  
  
• Master Gardeners assisted with more than 150 consumer gardening questions and distributed more than 300 fact sheets and 300 garden calendars.

WVU Marshall County Extension Office
Route 3 Box 213A
P.O. Box 309
Moundsville, WV 26041-0309
(304) 843-1170
FAX (304) 845-2355

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