Youth and Young Adults
Martha Ebersole
Youth Director
640 Dellville Rd.
Duncannon, PA 17020
(717) 834-4435
mebasket@epix.net
Click HERE to obtain a printable copy of the "Start Your Engines" registration form
YOUTH...Start Your Engines For 2008
To start the year off the Youth will be at the Farm Show on Saturday, January 5th. Make sure you stop by the State Grange Booth and say "Hi!"
Also in January, we will be having our planning meeting so if there are flat tires or oil changes that need to be done please let me know so we can plan for the year (If there is something that you would like to see the Youth do, please let me or one of the Committee know).
Youth members, you could do the program at your February meeting and do one of our contests and then you will have some entries for State Grange Session. Have a baking contest at the meeting where everybody brings cookies or cakes. Have them judged and then you will also have refreshments.
March 14-16, 2008 we will be having Young Marrieds/Young Adults Weekend at State College. Please check out the information about the weekend (on the application form to the right). We love having non-Grangers come and enjoy the weekend. There will be workshops and fun games, as well as fellowshipping with new and old friends.
April will be a busy month for me. I do a bus trip to Dresden, Ohio, the "Basket Capital" of the world. It is April 18-19. The bus leaves Duncannon at 5:00 a.m. If anybody, young or old, would like to go, please let me know. We give away a lot of baskets, play games and generally have a lot of fun.
Also in April, we will be attending our Eastern Regional Youth Conference in Greeneville, TN. Anybody can participate, but the 1st place winners in Public Speaking are to go to represent Pennsylvania. I am including some additional information from the National Grange Youth Director, Cindy Greer following my article.
Just an FYI...the National Grange has a new Youth Contest - Creative Writing Contest. This is a National Contest only.
Everybody likes a nice new shiny car, so Youth, get out there and promote the Grange to let the people know there is a nice shiny Grange in their area (hopefully, new for them).
Thank you,
Martha
Eastern Regional Youth Conference is scheduled for April 11-13, 2008. The location is in Greene County, Tennessee (bordering North Carolina and within 50 miles of Virginia). The camp is in Greeneville, Tennessee - at Interstate RT 81. I-81 runs north into New York through Pennsylvania.
The camp has nice cabins - 5 cabins sleeping 16 people each. They are heated and air conditioned. There is also a nice building with kitchen facilities and a dining area for over 100 people. This building also has a room upstairs for meetings and some sleeping accommodations. There is a fire pit with benches in a circle for about 80 people. They also have an open pavilion with picnic tables and a children's play area, but it is some distance from the dining hall and cabins. The shower and bath facilities are in a building that is in the center of the sleeping cabins.
It is easy to find, is very private, and is in a beautiful mountain setting. A bus could easily travel to the camp. There are no overhead power lines, etc. to try to navigate around.
There is also a lake, but April is a little cool. There is a softball field as well as volleyball and basketball courts down the hill from the cabins.
More information will be sent out to Youth Directors in the near future.
I hope to see lots of people this year.
Hope you had a Happy New Year.
Cindy Greer
National Grange
Youth Development Director