Mercer County Extension Office seeks advisory committee members
The Mercer County Extension Office invites residents to join advisory committees for agriculture and community development, home economics, and youth development. Contacts John Scott Jr, Susan Gianato, and Brenda Pruett at 425-3079 or 487-1439. location is Memorial Building, 1500 West Main St., Princeton WV 24740.
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Mercer County Extension Office
West Virginia University Extension Service
United States Department of
John Scott Jr
Susan Gianato
Brenda Pruett
Mercer County Extension
Memorial Building
West Main St
Princeton
W.va
Eastern Star and UDC officers meet in Bluefield notes
At a stated Bluefield Chapter 66 Eastern Star meeting grand officers from West Virginia attended with Dreama Butcher presiding. The session welcomed 61 in attendance, presented honorary memberships, honored projects, and closed with a Memorial Service for UDC members and veterans. A reception followed and plans announced for the Traveler District Meeting.
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Bluefield
Order of the Eastern Star
West Virginia
Dreama
Rodney Butcher
Dixie Barley
Winolia Chapter
Mr. Hope
Jack Lauck
Williamstown
Gussie Casdorph
Tiskelwah
Charleston
General Grand Chapter
Peggy Caldwell
Lakeland
Narrows
Vernon Bailey
Winolia
Joe Coburn
Athens
Eleanor Brewer
Newburg
Mary Frances Pugh
Oak Hill
Deborah Carte
Chelyan
Bruce Karnes
Kanawha
Montgomery
Virginia
Brenda Jones
Richlands
Mildren Bryant
Bland
Carrol Davis
Alberta
Bramwell
Peggy Pauley
Washington
Jane Eads
Ernest Doyle Jr
South Dakota
Faye Ramsey
Peterstown
Lila Coburn
Jo Canterbury
Silver Leaf
Hinton
Daisy Brewster
Tazewell
Trixie Martin
Myrtle Roberts
Kimball
Peggy Mann
Mary Jane Mullins
Rocky Gap
Donald Brewer
John Vermillion
Dreama Butcher
Virginia Burgoyne
Estarl
Eastern Star
Bluefield Chapter 66
Fay Doyle
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Richard Wayland
UDC Chapter
John Shrewsbury
Bill Hostetter
J.R. Garrett
Payne
Union
W.J. Freeman Jr
Martin Clark
Garrett
Chicory Square
Riley- West Post 9
American Legion
Frances Munsey
Clark
Shrewsbury
A Land of Great Variety Across Canadian Provinces
Canada comprises ten provinces and two territories with a national government and provincial governments. The text highlights Quebec with a French heritage, Montreal as a major city, and ties to separatist sentiment. It notes Quebec’s population and the province's economy including tourism, forestry, mining, manufacturing, fishing, and hydroelectric power.
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Canada
United States
Joan Abeles
Montreal Gazette
Canadian Embassy
New Brunswick's Coastal Heritage and Economy Overview
New Brunswick borders the Bay of Fundy with the world’s highest tides rising and falling up to fifty feet daily. The province, Canada’s smallest, hosts forests covering about 85 percent and an economy based on tourism forestry fishing mining paper newsprint offshore oil and gas manufacturing and agriculture. Acadian French settlers faced expulsion in 1755, many ending in Louisiana as Cajuns.
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Bay of Fundy
New Brunswick
Louisiana
Alberta Landscape: Prairies Forests Deserts and Fossil Beds
Alberta features a mosaic landscape from prairie to Rocky Mountain foothills with half forest cover and wide desert areas. The economy centers on farming, oil and natural gas, forestry, mining, and tourism. Alberta Badlands host renowned dinosaur fossils and vast oil and gas resources underpin growth.
Vancouver and British Columbia Economic Identity Card
The text portrays British Columbia as a major Canadian region with vast forests covering about 90 percent of land and rivers and lakes making up a sixth. It notes Inuit dog teams historically crossing tundra, First Nations wood carvings, mountains along the Pacific, and Vancouver’s 1.6 million population as Canada’s third-largest city with diverse industries such as forestry mining paper products tourism salmon farming and farming.
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North America
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Vancouver
Canada
Yukon Territory Land of the Midnight Sun
Describes Yukon Territory with long summer days and four months of darkness in winter. Notes its landscapes of forests and tundra, explains tundra as rocky arctic land. Outlines economy including mining hunting fishing trapping tourism and forestry. Mentions author and thanks to contributors for this issue.
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Nunavut
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County Extension Office
Bluefield Oes
Bluefield Udc
Fincastle
Fincastle Duplicate Bridge Club
Eddie Boyd
Anna Stuart
Betty Clarkson
Vivian Hughes
Mary Thompson
Catherine Fanning
Rachel McMullin
Dot Wright
Lou Bergeron
Marie Bailey
Cassie Carter
Elsa Snead
Ben Childers
Doris Wiley
Mary Lou Thomas
Katherine Tourney
Irene Smith
Frances Carriker
Norman Smith
Elsie Graham
Katie Croy
Bradie Moore
Glenna Hoge
Lema Rangeley
Helen Coulling
Betty Scott
Pauline Smith
Nina Doyle
Quebec
Montreal
Paris
Atlantic
Northwest Territories
Fland
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
I Ree
This
Province
Island
Nova Scotia
Manitoba
The
Prairie Provinces
Saskatchewan
Alberta Badlands
Prairies
Tyrrell Museum
Calgary
Ontario
Toronto Area
Casa Loma
Toronto
British Columbia
Yukon Territory
Arctic
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