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Wayne County ’s Dave Williams poses for a photo
with Pennsylvania Farm Bureau President Carl Shaffer shortly after
being awarded the Distinguished Local Affairs Leader Award for the
state of Pennsylvania at the Presidents luncheon. |

MeeCee Baker , Ag. Education
Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
and her daughter at the annual Future Farmers of America
Alumni Banquet in Grantville Pa. She is working hard with
the Wayne-Pike Farm Bureau to help bring back Agricultural
Science back into our schools.
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Local radio host Dave Williams was inducted
into the National Association of Farm Broadcasters, Jan. 2nd
2006.The last N.A.F.B. member from Penn. was in 1957, also the first
fulltime farm broadcaster in the U.S. was Frank Mullen with
KDKA in Pittsburg Penn. in 1921. He extended his broadcasting career
in 1926 to NBC, to found the first farm network program The
National Farm Service Home Hour. The interesting coincidence to
Mr.Williams is that N.A.F.B. was organized in1944, the same year
that Mr. Williams was born. Pictured above, Dave Williams and
Max Armstrong, at the American Farm Bureau Convention in Nashville
Tennessee, being congratulated by Max and other members of
N.F.B.A. Max Armstrong is one of the most widely recognized
agricultural journalists in America and is co-founder of This
week in Agribusiness, a very popular show on the RFDTV
television station. This syndicated broadcast has been seen weekly
since 1977 on over 180 local television stations across
America.
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Former Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB)
President, Guy Donaldson of Ortanna, was honored with the
Distinguished Service to Agriculture award Tuesday night during the
PFB’s Annual Meeting in Hershey. Donaldson is pictured here with his
wife Betty.
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