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Preschool Screening Next Week
A preschool screening assessment for all children under age 5 (from birth to age 5) will be conducted at the Rappahannock County Elementary School on September 4, 5 and 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Patricia Hottinger, preschool handicap teacher, announces. The assessment of preschool-age children will be in the areas of coordination, self-help, movement, social and language development.
Rappahannock’s public schools are required by Public Law 94-142 to hold a county-wide ‘child-find.’ The purpose of the screening is to identify children with developmental delays in the areas of visual, speech, heiuing disorders, multiple handicaps and special health problems in order to plan an educational training program for them.
The preschool screening program is provided at no cost to parents, all of whom should participate.
For more information, contact Mrs. Hottinger at 967-9259.
Technical Education Center of Culpeper plana to hold Adult Bask Education (ABE) classes in Rappahannock soon, according to George H. Molts, Jr., supervisor at the Center. The chases will be part of a satellite program in conjunction with regular adult and vocational education classes offered at the Center.
Class instruction in Rappahannock will emphasize reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling and other skills. ABE classes are free to adults with less than a ninth-grade education. Classes will be offered evenings, during two-and-one-half-hour sessions, two nights each week, tentatively scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
In order to offer classes in the county, at least 10 students must be enrolled, Moltz notes. Once it is determined there is sufficient interest, prospective students will be contacted and arrangements to begin classes will be made.
For more information, call Piedmont Technical Education Center at 8254)476, Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Cost-Share Program Begins
The Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District is assisting with administration of a state cost-share program in Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock counties. The program is aimed at voluntary installation of water-quality and erosion-control practices. The cost-share concept successfully has been used in federal agricultural programs, according to Harold Estes, chairman of the program for the Culpeper District.
Landowners who participate will help improve the quality of water leaving their land and will receive payment for providing cleaner, more usable water, Estes reports. Specific practices that are part of the program include no-till planting, reforestation of erodiUe cropland, grassfilter stripe, permanent vegetative cover on critical areas, terrace systems, diversions, contour farming, stripcropping, sod waterways and sediment-retention structures.
Sign-up, which began August 15, will continue through September 30. Once an approved practice is installed, cost-share payments will be made by the Culpeper District.
For more information, contact Rappahannock ASCS or call the Culpeper District office at 825-8591.
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