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trio of youngsters are members of the North

Holmes, inesiaes at a

1965 Rural ‘Youth Fair,

_ with her are brothers Mervyn and Lowell. The returned for annual competition.

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While Canada's 70.000 p 4 iH Club. members have | been given the official ‘green +H light" te a -broad scope of Cen

tenary Year activities at the local ‘level, the one-week Sem. L’Esterel. Quebec has

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Seminar key nationa 4H centennial projec

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omc development of Canada, sessment of these shallndeien

during the past 100 years problems — by representative The forces of technology and groups of 4H Club members subsequent economic develop- from the ten provinces

ment have resulted in far- reach- "RPOSE BJE / ing ..changes in rural commun- Fu AND @ CTIVES The undertying purpose and ob

been designated by the Canadian | Council on 4H Clubs as the of. | ficial Centennial.4H project at | the national level. From Aucust i5 to 12, many of Canada’s 5.795 14H Clubs will be represented ;by: award winning deleczates as ithey. meet in study and recre- | ation at L’Esterel, the popular year-round resort hote) nestled in a forested, like-dotted Laur- entian Mountain estate, 6) mies north of Montreal. It wil! be the home and headquarters for a week of history-making deliber-

| AGE LIMIT

Delegates to the Centennal Seminar will be between 16 and 21 years of age and will selected through elimination

ners are retained by them but the trophy must be

Washington conference —annual 4-H _ highlights-

The main ference may be summed up in. Dee® enlightened by this short |Canuada. In all walks of life,

During the early’ part of

March a small group of 4H Mem projects at that time igcluded one word,

bers from Prince’ Edward [s- land gathered at the Women's Institute Branch of the P. E. T. Department of Agriculture to partake in an elimination._to

—ehoose-a_male_delegate.to_repre-

sent P. E. I. at the 36th National +H Conference in Washington Boys or girls are chosen on al- ternate years.

The eliminations consisted of an interview based upon your + FR knowledze. both local, Natio- fal and = International Each contestant was judged’ upon his 4H background, © present’ +H knowledge and potential leader- ‘ship ability. When final tabula- tions were made the honer was placed upon me to represant this. Province at Nafional Con ference The Canadian dele- gates to this Conférence ate sconsored by the Canadian Coun- cil on 4H Clubs with headquart- ers at Ottawa. The dates of this year’s Conference were April 14-23. The first part. of our pro- gram involved a visit to Ottawa then to New York and finally to the Conference ~at Washington

On April 14 the ten. Canadian delegates, 5 boys and 5 girls. assembled at the Chateau-Lau- rier in: Ottawa along with our two leaders, Miss E. M_ Colly- er and J. E. Audet. While in Ot- tawa we visited the Parliament Buildings and had the honor of meeting Hon. L. B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada. Fol- lowing our stay_ in Ottawa we left by air for New York on Ap- til-15—_While in New-York we stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria “Hotel and toured many points of

interest. On April 16 the group attended a play, Half a Six- Pence’’ on Broadway. Then on

part of the 1900's

Swine. Corn, Tomato and Can- ning clubs. Today in the Unit- |

the members: live on farms, and. the remaifder are from the) towns and cities i

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WHITE HOUSE VISIT

One of the most interesting . events at the Conference prov- | ed to be our visit to the White | House While there we met Vice-President and Mrs. Hum- phrey and President and Mrs. | L. B. Johnson. While there| President Johnson spoke to the | delegation for some twenty mi- nutes The President compli- | mented the young people on | fheir fortune in having “the kind of parents and grandpar- ents that’ made this. Republic | what it ig today”; the President advised “his audience ‘to take it | from here and leave it better | than you found it’.

jmany mew faces each delegate ihe giad to relate more about my | content met and chatted with seemed |unforgettable ¢xperience either |

jwere many new ideas of ways

our clubs, county and world can and some day may better them selves. }

Finally, may I say how pleas- | It is recognized that rural jed I was to have represented | youth has made significant con. | jthe smallest Province of Can- tributions to the economic ada and hope some minds have | growth and _development.._of

article. I can not begin to tell | le from rural area

all there is to tell, but I. would |So> 50 important - positions ip political, educational and biusi- [ness professions, a trend which ; will continue in the years ahead.

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THE 4H PLEDGE

“I Pledge— “Rural Youth and His World”

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ee has been adopted in keeping My Head to clearer thinking, with thé purpose and oblectwes My Heart t ter ; of the Seminar. my © greater loyalty, | NEED FOR, SEMINAR My Hands to larger service, and The, Canadian Council on ¢ H Clubs, representing _My Health to better living educational movement ne oe ; al youth, feels strongly that for my club, my community “members of 4-H Clubs should be ” {given opportunities to study anc my country ; ‘significant trends which will af- i i a + = S % 2 ° \. . Councal “Learn to Do by Doing” - further that, the ag- industry has

My conclusion to the Con -

“Sunday we were off to the 36th |

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Washington Conference _. It wae on this day April 17 that some 215 delegates descend- ed upon the -Nation'’s Capital to’ partake in the Conference There were 200 delegates from U.S. A.. 10 from Canada, 4 from Puerto Rico and one deleg=*> from Korea. This vast group a- jong with their leaders resided at the National 4H Center. 7100 Connecticutt Avenue. Maryland

, This center resembles a Univer

sity Campus and today has grown into a 1*2 million dollar project

The theme of the Conference was “Young Citizens’ Quest in a World of Opportunity’ Each day of the conference also had a more general theme which the program followed

AIDS UNDERSTANDING

The main purposes of the Con- ference included increased un- derstanding of important na- tional and international~ issues and problems fating the Ameri- can people today There was also increased understandin« and acceptance of the democra

4e—values—citizenship—tesponss—f

bilities and opportunities ava:!- able for each 4-H delegate in a’ tendance The National Coan- ference Was -also planned to re port Extension's 4H goals and achievements to the ational leaders and genera! public in at tendance :

The Conference proved to be main): a citizenship Con‘er- ence ‘because our long rance. 4. H goal it cond citizensim. Ths wear there wAs a spe al fac en International Citizensoio cur meetings more ahout and national issues and or anc inetease eur understand:ns of democratic values so w2 ca”

become more. responsible cit: 2ans. Nisa during..the Confer.

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ence we had orgamzed feurs a round. the Nation's Capit ca led et vanous offices of Govern ment husiness and education an ene afternoon +t e the Goddard Space * atin where m . ni ecer “stace equipment é ed . Fach and everv Canadian de lévote learned a bout tt + -H 4 B in U. S. A. began in the early

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thes throuchout Canada It ic rere eee felt important that these should Jectives. of the Seminar will be be Viewed by tural south @ assist mémbers of 4H Clubs |: ’ ' : to acquire a broader ynderstand- | 4 It is important also that rural ing and concept of the role of youth, who are closely associat- rural youth in Canada’s past, ed with the production of food present and future. through pro- and fibre, should understand the viding opportunities challenges which face this coun a) to examine the contribut- try, particularly as they affect ions of ‘agriculture and their ef- trends in ruar! communities fect on Canada’s social and ec- The Centennial! +H Seminar onomic development. will provide the needed oppor- b) to identify and define cur- tunities for close study and as- rent implications and future re

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Saturday, August 5. will be registration day, with delegates arriving at L’Estere!l by chartér- hel buses from railway tions

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Symposium of 10.” Wednes. day August-9, with feature pre- sentation by ten 4-H Club itt. bers on significant poigks that have been identified durin the Seminar and their peronal re report. sibilities on returning to their home communities The day

will close with an evening pro- gram by the delegates. « re ae eee ‘Thureday and Friday. A: ? , have been set aside visits to Expo 67 with the Agricultural and Youth Pavili as key visiting points om first day Optional tours will be taken the second day Closing ceremomes are scheduled for Saturday. August 12

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