McDowell County Points of Pride

• Forty-seven 4-H'ers from the North Elkins District participated with the Maybeury 4-H Club on an overnight lock-in at the Greater Bluefield Community Center.
  
  
• McDowell Parks & Recreation and Elkhorn Watershed Association worked with the Extension Office to set up a mobile home donated by the WVU excess property program on land that will become a park in Maybeury.
  
  
• Three hundred fifty McDowell County eighth-graders participated in the sixth annual Career Fair at the National Guard Armory in Welch. Thirty-seven presenters from business, state and local government, health and other public agencies supported this collaboration between the McDowell County Board of Education and Extension.
  
  
• Extension helped direct victims, donations and supplies, and volunteers from many organizations to various flood relief centers in the county.
  
  
• The Adult Family Nutrition Program (FNP) reached 266 limited-resource families with sessions on nutrition, food safety, and money management. The nutrition outreach instructor conducted a day care provider workshop for 150 people. The Youth FNP reached 295 students with nutrition education classes in four elementary schools.
  
  
• Energy Express, a six-week summer reading and nutrition program, had a total of 104 participants at Bradshaw and Kimball elementary schools.
  
  
• The Dining with Diabetes cooking schools helped 20 participants understand healthy food choices and increase their self-confidence in preparing diabetic meals. .

WVU McDowell County Extension Office
2nd Floor Co. Comm. Building
90 Wyoming Street
P.O. Box 860
Welch, WV 24801-0860
(304) 436-2872
FAX (304) 436-3907

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