4-H ACHIEVEMENT DAY PLANS \
Big plans are being mado for tho Annual
Achievement Day and Banouet on Saturday
ITovombor 6. The banquet is bo bo hold in
the parlors'of tho United Protostant Chruo
at 6:30 p*m. The banquet is being spon
sored by'the Metanudca Vallfey Chamber of
Commerce, tho Mntanuska Valley Farmers Co
operating .Association and tho Home mix ers
Council in honor of 4-H Achievement* Only
members who completed their projects and
who have turned in their- record books uro ■
eligible to attend the banquet* Parents
of those eligible for the banquet have ol*.
so been invited as special guests.
"yT.v.TViBka Hai'd’f'.Icocream is being donated
bj tho r.V. F.C.A. Tho Chamber of Commerce
is putting up tho money for the purchase
of the re of tho food and the Hooemakors
are iu^niahing vogotoexes ana preparing
the banquet *
rbllowing the banquet tho 4-H Achievement
pins and special recognitions will bo a
worcled.
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EXTENSION SERVICE. PROCRAM
ON NUTRITION
Lydia Fbhn-Hmsof, Homo Demonstration
Lc -.dor, Extension Service, Alaska.
In 1935-36 a newspaper reporter camo as i
for north as Foxchikan and vent back to i
the States to write mnercus articles a- j
about Alaska. Ho stated as fact that tho ;
vegetables grown in Alaska had no flavor j
and no food value. "You'could eat a car- j
load and still bo hungry.** ho said, Worse |
yot, even -laskan themselves at tv.nos
point out some emaciated gardener the
horrible example of the person who tries
to live oi Alaska vegetables.
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Sc it is not unusual to find Alaskans who
believe that no one in .'Alaska can have'a
v:oil-balanced diet, "Surer ” they nay,
’’there can*t be a vitamin left by the time
the food gets to Alaska. Local vegetable,:
must grow too fast to be nutritious, no
matter how good they taste. Even the po
tatoes aren’t like those back home. And
the prices*. Even if we wanted an orange
every day and a quart of milk, we couldn’t
afford it."
COOPERATION ’TTH HEALTH DEPARTMENT j
With insufficient funds for a nutrition
sfsc-'aiist and demands for other phases t
of homemaking in addition to foods. the i
U. .-tension Service welcomes the assistance
of the nutrition won: carried on by the
Territorial De- artrout of Health.. Agents
confer with the Nutrition Oo/.tu'.fiant'fre
q: ently on use of “AoHia groru foods-, and
• they welcome especial!/ the dato on nutri
tive values of Alasra-groim ^uoc0 The
nutrition survey of IS:. ■■ t the vory first
^ of its kind in Alesne, estobiisnod ■‘■ho
high ascorbic acid value of Arcic-frown
greens and berries. Another in vest,:, gat ion
on Alaska foods was carried out in the
public health laboratory at Juneau l>y Mi si
Eea Shepard. Sainlcs of vegetables grown
near Fairbanks were prepared for the free
zer locker by Ruby Green, A University of
Alaska student employed b^y the Extension
Service during the summer of 1947,
The Alaska EjAansion Service will continue
to promote better use'of Alaska food'pro
duct n-'-x.i eh, seafoods, kelp, terries, wild
greens. matihroons game and garden crops.
The Extension. Service encourages Alaskan
homfjmAiei-3 rc-Cror »nd producu as mu eh as
poo si bio of tbs Iv yearly food supply-Use
loca1 products and cook them properly, and
insure Porter di-'ts by wiser uh3 of inex
pmjivw foods - d ’ied milk, dried fruits and
.vhoxo grain cereals
DR. F. R. SI ms
DEI1TIST
PALMER ALASKA
PEPiRL LUHITE LRUDORy
Avoid tho year and ^ ~‘r
toar of v/inds & uinuo'r"
nontlior on your clothes—
Send then to us.
IRENE LEPAK
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FOR CHRISTMAS
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