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opment issues and can relate both to agriculture.”
As a condition of his employment Mr. Cunningham was expected to move into the county within two years. He said he fully intended to buy a home here but could not make that move with his job so uncertain.
“I hope people will keep contacting the extension office for assistance,” he said.
Home economics agent Helen Smith said that when the position was last vacant, after Thomas Williams left to take a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and before Mr. Cunningham was hired, Jack Dunford, one of Culpeper's extension agents was in the Washington office one day a week. “I expect he will do that again,” she said.
She said she and the volunteer staff will keep the 4-H program going. “We will definitely have day camp and overnight camp,” she said. “We will depend more on volunteer leaders to help with camp.” Volunteer leaders will continue to help with the several 4-H clubs in the county.
“Any time there is a reduction in staff it will hurt the program, but we’ll try to keep everything covered the best we can,” she said.
Reached in his Harrisonburg office State Sen. Kevin Miller R-26th said, “I was not aware that funding would not be available. I’m not sure what can be done if anything now.”
He added, “Extension is something with a great deal of support among the legislators.”
Mike Massie, Hampton District’s representative on the Board of Supervisors and a member of the Extension Leadership Council, said it’s hard to predict what the affect of being without an agriculture agent will be on county farmers. “We’ve gone
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