Annual Meeting of Kiowa County Farm Bureau Held

By Laura Negley

November 7, 2003

Kiowa County Farm Bureau would like to thank everyone who attended the annual meeting on the evening of October 27. The meal was catered by Sharon Frazee.

This year Rod Johnson was the featured speaker. His talk revolved around the 2001 Farm Bill. One of the many points of intent about the Farm Bill is that Ag producers only receive 18% of funds in the Farm Bill, which receives only 1% of the total budgeted monies. The remaining funds going to a variety of other agencies and programs which are not Agriculturally related. He also spoke on the projects that Kiowa County Economic Development is currently involved in.

George Ellicott was elected to the position of Vice President of the board. Laura Negley was elected to another term as Treasurer. The position of President, currently held by Donald Oswald, and Secretary, held by Cindy Williams will be up for election at the 2004 annual meeting. If any members would be interested in filling the position of Women's Chairman please contact any of the board members. The Board meets monthly at Our Place Restaurant in Eads and all members are invited to attend any of the meetings.

We would like the members to be aware that the Colorado Farm Bureau Annual Meeting is November 20 through 23rd in Colorado Springs. If any member is interested in attending as a delegate, please contact Laura Negley. The Farm Bureau will pay the registration fee, but it must be turned in by November 18th.

After handling the business affairs there were prize drawings. Prizes were won by the following people: Doris Lessenden- Mouse Pad, Winona Barnes-T-Shirt, Lois McCracken-$25.00 certificate to Eads Consumer Supply, Glendoris Reinert-$25.00 gift certificate to Eads NAPA, Elden Reinert-$25.00 gift certificate to Kiowa Healthmart, Terry Salisbury-$25.00 gift certificate to Stop and Shop, Mike Lening-$25.00 gift certificate to Just Betty's, Deb Lening- silk flower arrangement from Teresa's Flowers, and Tony Jensen-$100.00 gift certificate to Walmart. Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all in attendance.