Help Needed

Help Needed

To the editor:

There are three families in the community with a genuine need that the FISH organization is trying to provide (FISH is the Green acronym for the Christian movement). To protect their anonymity we are not stating the problem publicly.

Call 675-3523 and we will give you the particulars. We need financial assistance. We who are living so comfortably cannot ignore the deserving needy.

“As you do it to one of the least of these, my brethren, you do it to Me”.

FISH ORGANIZATION

Rappahannock Chapter

A Gift

To the editor:

Two young men of this county, both residents of Hint Hill, have recently given Rappahannock County a gift which should not go unnoticed.

Both these men hold full time jobs, yet for the past three and a half months, from September 2 through December 11, every Tuesday and Thursday nights between 1900 and 2200 hours, they volunteered of their spare time to teach an Emergency Medical Technician Course at Flint Hill Fire Station.

Now, this is no simple matter, for to teach well, they had to be prepared well professionally. They had to coordinate guest speakers’ schedules, they had to pick up and return various training aids, films, projectors and other equipment; they had to establish a working relationship and liason with hospitals in Front Royal, Culpeper and Warrenton, to insure inservice training; and they had to do a variety of other odd and sundry things to insure success of their

Conservation

Nominees

Nominations are being accepted for the seventh national “Conservation Teacher-of-the-Year” awards program according to Raymond R. Kite, Chairman of the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District. The competition is open to all full-time teachers working at the kindergarten through high school level who have developed an outstanding program of environmental education. The National Conservation Teacher of the Year will receive $1000 in cash and an expense paid trip to Phoenix. Arizona for the 1982 annual convention of the National Association of Conservation Districts. The national second place winner receives a $500 cash award and the first place regional winner will be given $200. Co-sponsored by NACD and the Allis Chalmers Corporation, the purpose of the awards program is to encourage the development of creative learning experiences in conservation for young people. “Any teacher in a public or private school in our conservation district who puts emphasis on environmental conservation as a regular part of the instructional program is eligible for nomination.” said Chairman Kite. Interested teachers can obtain additional information and nomination forms from the Culpeper District office at 604 South Main Street in Culpeper. The awards program also includes equivalent prizes for the conservation district judged nationally to have provided the most effective stimulus and help for conservation education programs within the District.