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Roemer To Attend Seminar
Maria Roemer, a sophomore at Rappahannock County High School, has been selected to attend the Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation Virginia Leadership Seminar. The seminar will be held at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. from June 13 to 16.
Roemer had to file an application which was first reviewed by a screening committee of school administration officials. The seminar is held for high school sophomores who have displayed leadership qualities.
^Nominate Teacher Of Conservation
Nominations are being accepted for the national “Conservation Teacher-of-the Year” awards program.
The competition is open to all full-time teachers working at the kindergarten through high school level who have developed an outstanding program of conservation education.
The National Conservation Teacher-of-the-Year will receive $1,000 in cash and an expense paid trip to Nashville, Tennessee for the 1986 annual NACD convention. The national second place winner will receive a $500 cash award and the first place regional winner will receive $200.
Interested teachers can obtain additional information and nomination forms from the District Office at 604 South Main Street in Culpeper or phone 825-8691.
• Mobile Home Legislation?
A subcommittee of the General Assembly has voted to recommend legislation that would require counties to give mobile homes the same treatment in agriculturally zoried areas as they do site built homes. A passage from a draft of the proposed bill reads: “...no locally adopted zoning regulation shall disallow the location of a proposed residential structure in a rural or agricultural zone, or any other zone which allows single-family detached dwellings on lots of two or more acres, solely because the proposed structure is a mobile home.”
The Board of Supervisors during their January 7 meeting said they would obtain a draft of the proposed bill and discuss it at the next meeting.
• Farmers Take Note
Lue Walters, District Conservationist with the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in Culpeper, says there is cheap help available to farmers these days. The answer is crop residue. All a farmer must do, says Walters, is leave it on the fields instead of plowing or burning it. This helps in 3 ways:
•It prevents splash erosion (erosion from falling raindrops) during winter rains, and a farmer can save 1 to 2 tons of soil per acre per year on flat fields.
•It decreases ditch maintenance. Fall plowing increases soil erosion over the winter months, which increases the amount of sediment deposited in ditches. In many areas it costs to have ditches maintained.
•It helps keep runoff water cleaner, which keeps water in our streams and lakes cleaner.
For more information phone Lue Walters at 825-4200.
• Academic Scholarships Offered
Radford University’s Scholars Program is offering academic scholarships ranging from $500 to $4,000 to freshmen and transfer students entering in the fall of 1985.
To qualify for the program high school students must rank in the top 10 percent of their high school graduating class or have SAT scores totaling 1200. Students transfering from a community college or other fouryear institution will be chosen on the basis of their previous college records.
Application deadline is Feb. 1, and winners will be announced in March.
For further information concerning the Scholars Program or scholarship applications, contact Andrew Bales, director of admissions, Box 5430, Radford University, VA., 24142 or call (703) 731-5371.
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