Conservation on the Ground –
Lee County Fair
by Anne Miller, District Administrative Coordinator, Opelika Field Office, AL
Come one, come all. It’s County Fair time! The Lee County
Fair attracts an assortment of individuals and provides an
ideal opportunity for the Lee County Soil and Water
Conservation District to educate the general public about
the services available from the local district office.
The Lee County Earth Team Volunteers, partnering with
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the
Lee County Soil and Water Conservation District, decorated
a booth for the Lee County Fair. Brenda Cannon, Earth
Team Volunteer, designed our booth and developed this
year’s theme—“Lend a Hand and Fall into the Earth Team.”
Prior to the fair, Earth Team Volunteers visited area schools
and had the students draw around their hands and cut them
out of fall-colored construction paper. These visits provided
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Jason Gardner, NRCS District
Conservationist and Anne Miller,
District Administrative
Coordinator, pose under the
Helping Hands tree.
teachers and
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that they use our natural resources wisely. T
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materials
o attract interest to the booth, adults attending
e fair registered to win “The Plat Book of Lee Coun
formation—conservation education, the Lee Count
arth Team Volunteers. Earth Team Volunteer Shel
ater Conservation District Supervisor Robert E. (E
ncouraged children to draw around their hands and
rovided bags of conservation educational
dults and children alike found items of interest at ou
e U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its pr
e, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental s
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