Hanna Ag group presents scholarship to HEM graduate
Perry Goodrich, left, and Ellen Freeman, right, present Haley Fellton with a check as members of HART look on along with mother Kit Felton.
The Hanna Agricultural Resource Team (HART) met on June 22 at the Hanna Market. At the beginning of the meeting, recent Hanna, Elk Mountain, Medicine Bow (HEM) High School graduate Haley Felton was presented with a $300 scholarship.
Felton, who is going to the University of Wyoming, was grateful to HART for the help.
"My dad is a huge gardener and that is one of the things that we do a lot," Felton said. "We actually sell the seeds that we grow together so we make money together. Gardening means a lot to me."
HART looked over the applicants and believed Felton was the most deserving.
"We know it is expensive out there," HART member Rose Dabbs said. "We are a pretty small group compared to many others but, when a student shows interest in agriculture, we want to do our part to help."
The annual scholarship offered by the group is usually $150, but an anonymous donor in the group upped the funds by another $150.
The next order of business for Chairman Perry Goodrich was letting the group know he wanted to have officers. Currently the group is set up to have a chairman and a secretary. Goodrich wants to add the position of treasurer and vice chairman to the group.
"We are getting big enough that we need to consider this," Goodrich said. "I don't want us to do anything tonight but I want us to give it thought as we go forward. Especially as the garden gets larger when we move in the fall."
The HART community garden was moved from its site at the old elementary school property owned by Carbon County School District No. 2 to a temporary location on private property. In the fall, it is anticipated the HART community garden will be moved again to the back of HEM High School.
Linda Goodrich, secretary of HART, said the group still was not able to work on the tea garden in front of the Miners Cottage at the Hanna Basin Museum until the museum can find a way to prevent the deer from eating the flowers that are being planted. The current fence has not kept the town deer out.
Member Ellen Freeman said the HART barbecue was a success and another should beconsidered for the month of July.
HART will next meet at 5:30 p.m. on July 20 at the Hanna Market.
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