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National 4-H weekThis year's National 4-H Week theme, "Pathways ko the

Future," reflects the 4-H purpose of helping youth becomeresponsible, productive citizens. National 4-H Week is Oct. 4-10.

Experiences for 4-H youth age 7-19 provide life-skills which helpyoung people respond, contribute, and function^ effectively in achanging world.

The opportunities and programs in 4-H are both ambitious andbroad in scope. Some older 4-H youth are working as teen leaders,teaching young children. Many are learning about wood science,veterinary science, plant science, or textiles. Nutrition is a focus formany youth as they learn how to have healthy bodies, while othersare preparing for the future through conservation of naturalresources and energy programs.

The skills learned in 4-H make a difference in the quality of lifefor youth both now and in their future. 4-H members wire lamps,prepare foods, plant gardens, care for horses or rabbits, hatchchicks, care for and teach younger children, and take the lead oncommunity issues. Through these experiences, 4-H youth practicetheir motto, "learning-by-doing."

For most youth, the "pathway to the future" will mean aleadership role in the community. At one time or another nearlyevery young person will be a leader, either in their job, family, orcommunity. The life-saving skills which include teaching, helping,showing and leading are a part of nearly every 4-H program. Manyolder youths are volunteer leaders themselves for younger 4-Hmembers in their community.

About 650,000 youth age 7-19 participate in the New York State4-H program, representing every county and city within the state. InPutnam County 500 youths are involved in 4-H club programs and4,000 more youth are reached through 4-H school programs.

The "pathway to the future" for these young people has ahelping hand from 41,000 volunteer 4-H leaders in New York Stateand 80 volunteers here in Putnam County. It is the volunteer,trained by Cornell University faculty and local CooperativeExtension 4-H agents, who makes the real difference in the life ofyouth.

The National 4-H Council in Washington, D.C., reports that thevalue of 523,000 4-H volunteers nationally amounts to half a billiondollars a year!

4-H America's largest out-of-school program for boys and girls, isthe youth education component of Cooperative Extension which, inNew York, is based at Cornell University. For more information onPutnam County 4-H youth programs, contact Lydia M. Reidy,cooperative extension agent, at 179 East Lake Blvd., Mahopac(628-0454).

Mahopac firemen urge

exit drills in the homeThe Mahopac Fire Department is asking all residents to plan and

practice E.D.I.T.H. (Exit Drills in the Home) during Fire PreventionWeek, Oct. 4-10. These drills are important because most firedeaths and injuries occur in the home. Most victims succumb totoxic smoke and gases, never seeing the fire.

FanrJy members should plan before a fire strikes how they canget out and avoid being trapped by the fire. A smoke detector,installed in the bedroom area of your home, you give early warningof fire and E.D.I.T.H. drills will make sure that your escapeplanning works.

When planning a drill, there are some important things toremember:

1. Before the drill, draw a map of every room in tH house andplot a primary and secondary exit from each room. Eve- yone shouldknow at least two ways out!

2. If windows are too high from the ground, provide rope laddersor chain ladders for escape.

3. Make sure everyone can operate windows and storm windowseasily.

4. Assign someone to assist young children and handicappedpersons. Never allow young children to climb out of windowsunsupervised during a drill.

5. When a smoke detector activates, roll out of bed, stay low andcrawl to the door. First feel the door before opening it. If its hot,don't open it and use your secondary exit to get out. If it is not hot,open the door carefully. Be prepared to close it quickly if smoke orfire is on the other side. If no smoke is present, use your primaryexit to get out.

6. After leaving the house, plan to meet at a predetermined placeoutside so that everyone can be accounted for.

Call the Fire Department from a safe location. Never go backinside for any reason until the Fire Department advises it is safe todo so.

After the drill, discuss it with family members for possibleimprovements and practice E.D.I.T.H. once a month. This practicemay someday save you and your family should a fire strike yourhome. If you have questions about E.D.I.T.H. or other fireprevention measures you can take in your home, contact your localfire department.

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Christ Church to install new pastorDr. Bernard Bi misting, who

has served for 13 years asminister of the Reformed Churchin Scarsdale, will be officiallyinstalled as the new minister ofChrist Church on Quaker Hill inPawling at 5 p.m. next Sunday,Oct. 11.

Officiating at the ceremony inthe sanctuary will be Dr. NormanVincent Peale, acting as a formerpresident of the General Synod ofthe Reformed Church in America,in which he has been a ministerfor nearly 50 years. Dr. Peale'shome is near Christ Church,which is on the highest hillbetween the Hudson River andLong Island Sound.

Brunsting succeeds Dr# GordonPowell, who has just completed6'/J years as minister of ChristChurch and is preparing to returnwith his wife tQ their Australianhomeland.

Brunsting will be the. thirdfull-time minister of the church,the first having been Dr. RalphLankier, nqw minister emeritus,who began his service in 1964.Prior to that, the 86-year-oldnondenominational congregationrelied on part-time and summerpastors.

The members of Christ Churchinformally welcomed Brunstingand his wife, Alice, to their newpastorate at a tea at the QuakerHill Country Club Oct. 3.Brunsting preached his firstsermon at Christ Church thefollowing day, choosing "Cer-tain We Can" as his theme. Hedelivers his last sermon inScarsdale on the morning of Oct.11 and will be in the pulpit inPawling regularly beginning Oct.18, when his topic will be "EnjoyLife." The Brunstings will moveinto the Christ Church manse onOct. 20.

Of his move to Pawling andChrist Church, Rev. Brunstingsaid: "We think Pawling is amarvelous place. We are veryproud and happy for the opport-unity to come here. Our welcomehas been warm and generous.This is a fine place to serve Godand the wonderful people of thePawling area."

A native of Sioux Center, Iowa,and the son of a Reformed Churchminister, Brunsting was a 1942graduate of Central College inFella, Iowa, where he met hiswife, who was a fellow student.He served as a commander of aB-17 bomber in World War II andhad started training to become anairline pilot after the war when hechanged his mind and decided tobecome a minister.

After graduation from WesternSeminary in Holland, Mich., in1949, he served churches inMichigan and Southern Califor-

NEW PREACHER ON QUAKER HILL-Dr. Bernard Brunsting atthe pulpit of Christ Church on Quaker Hill In Pawling, where he willbe officially Installed as the new minister at 5 P.M. Sunday, Oct. 11.Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a fellow minister of the ReformedChurch In America, will officate. Brunsting, pastor of the ReformedChurch In Scarsdale for the but 13 years, preached his first sermonat Christ Church on Oct. 4. Photo by Claire Cox

Hudson Highlands

ni;i, being called to the ScarsdaleChurch in 1968.

Brunsting's career as a mini-ster of one of the nation's oldestProtestant denominations-form-erly the Dutch Reformed Church-has included service as presidentof the General Synod of theReformed Church and of theJynod of the West. He has beenchairman of the InternationalMissionary Conference, his de-nomination's General Synod Ex-ecutive Committee, the BethesdaHospital Board and local clergyclubs. Recently he completed 12years on the board of trustees ofHope College, a ReformedChurch school in Holland, Mich.

For a number of years Brunst-ing has served as a summer guestminister for English-speakingchurches abroad. This activityhas taken him to Russia, Peru,India, South Africa, Italy and,most recently, Belgium. He hasalso served as chaplain on a worldcruise of the SS Rotterdam.

A popular lecturer and writer,Brunsting is the author of severalbooks, including Sacred MarriageVows and He Is Not Gone. WithDr. Peale he prepared Quotations

of Jesus Christ, a booklet distri-buted by the Foundation forChristian Living several years agoas a Christian answer to MaoTse-Tung's little red book, Quota-tions from Chairman Mao. Hiscolumn, Ministers' Workshop,regularly appears in the ChurchHerald magazine.

Mrs. Brunsting has just com-pleted 12 years as a social workerwith the Westchester CountyDepartment of Social Services.She worked with foster children.

The couple have 3 daughters, 1an attorney, another serving on amedical school faculty and thethird heading a trucking companywith her husband. Their son is aphysicist.

KENT LADIES AUXILIARY

The next meeting of the LadiesAuxiliary of the Lake Carmel FireDepartment will be on Oct. 13M the firehouse on Rte. 52 at 8:15p.m. Don't forget your gifts forthe white elephant which will beheld immediately following themeeting.

crafts showThe craftsmen of the West

Hudson Highlands will presenttheir 11th annual exhibition andsale at Bear Mountain State Park.This year's show, which will runfrom Oct. 9-18, will feature thework of over 130 craftspeople, allof whom either live or work in oneof the 5 counties where thePalisades Interstate Park Com-mission manages park lands:Orange, Rockland, Ulster andSullivan in New York and Bergenin New Jersey.

Fifty-five of these creativeartisans will have individualbooths in the roofed structuresnear Hessian Lake, a 2-minutewalk from Bear Mountain Inn. Onweekends they will be joined by ablacksmith, a quilter and apapermaker who will demonstratewhat blacksmiths, quitters andpapermaker do. And 'he Galleryin the historic Bear Mountain Innitself will display the incredible

range of work from these andmany other craftspeople, featur-ing unique, one-of-a-kind objectsnot available in the booths.

Trailblazers exhibitBYJOHNGARRENJR.

This week is National 4-HWeek. A group of 4-H'ers fromthe Trailblazers 4-H club arerepresenting National 4-H Weekby setting up a window display inCarmel at the Court House and atthe George Fischer Middle Schoolto explain what 4-H is.

When most people hear about4-H they think of horses, cookingand sewing, but 4-H is manythings. There are over 20 4-Hclubs in Putnam County and theyall do different things such aswoodworking, ceramics, photo-graphy, community services, rais-ing and learning about otheranimals and conservation.

GRANGEPENNY SOCIAL

The Mahopac Grange willsponsor a penny social Oct. 10, •starting at 7 p.m., at the MahopacGrange Hall on McAlpin Ave. inMahopac. Admission is $1.25.Refreshments will be served.

There are hundreds of opport-unities available for anyone thatis interested. If you are interest-ed in joining 4-H, contact theCooperative Extension Office at628-0454.

4-H is Youth that cares.

PAGE concernedon down zoningThe Putnam Assn. to Conserve

the Environment (PAGE) is con-cerned about downzoning andcontamination of wells in PutnamCounty. PAGE representativessaid the organization intends tofocus public attention on suchproblems and work for solutionsto these problems.

PAGE was established in 1974and successfully defeated a pro-posed solid waste disposal projectrecommended for a site off Rte.301 in Kent. PAGE memberssaid the association of concernedh^ireowners is re-emerging as astrong public action group.