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American National CattleWomen Region VI
Meeting April 2008 |
Front row: Judy Ahmann, president
California CattleWomen; Barbara Jackson, Tucson, AZ, ANCW
Outstanding CattleWoman of Year: Fita Witte, Belen, NM, ANCW
President; Kristy Lage, Arthur, NE,ANCW President-elect. Back
row: Susan Casey, president Nevada CattleWomen; Betty Jo
Nicholson, president Arizona CowBelles; Lynn Seward, president
New Mexico CowBelles; Nicki Wintch, president Utah CattleWomen;
Joan Hemsted, ANCW Region VI Director. |
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Five state presidents attended the
American National CattleWomen Region VI meeting in Napa,
California. More than 70 attended the informative meeting from
CA, NV, UT, NM, AZ, plus OR, CO, AR, NE, MN was represented. A
tour, luncheon and lecture at the Culinary Institute of America at
Greystone was a highlight of the meeting, as well as an address by
A. G. Kawamura, secretary of the California Department of Food and
Agriculture. |
Front row: Barbara Jackson, AZ, Region
VI Director; Barbara Cowley, Montague, Consumer Education.
Back row: Linda Vensel, AZ, Legislation; Pamela Payen, Loyalton,
Beef Promotion; Susan Casey, NV, By-laws & Resolutions. |
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California CattleWomen were elected
regional committee members during the American National
CattleWomen Region VI meeting in Napa. They will be installed in
2009 in Phoenix, at ANCW convention. - Photos and story by Jean
Barton |
Beef Education at the Cow Palace April 2008
Front row: l-r Patti Ising, Valerie
Pimentel from Cow Palace, Tami McElroy, Carol Rivers, Pamela Payen;
back row: Sharon Abrams, Kelly Baldwin, Lauren Heath, Barbara
Cowley, Bobbi Telles, Cindy Kaess. Not pictured were: Terri
Valdero and Jean Barton. All photos courtesy of Jean Barton |
"Unsung Hero's, the American beef cow"
was the theme of the California CattleWomen's beef education for
K-4th grades at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, April 10th and
11th.
More than 700 children, teachers and chaperones attended the Cow
Palace school tours, organized by CCW and invited by the Cow
Palace.
Co-Chairs were Barbara Cowley, Siskiyou Co. and Bobbie Telles, San
Joaquin/ Stanislaus, with Pamela Payen, Plumas/ Sierra in charge
of the cattlewomen guides.
Coming from Monterey County to lead the tours were Kelly Baldwin
and Lauren Heath; from Alameda were Patti Ising and Carol Rivers;
Tami and Bill McElroy from Butte; Plumas/ Sierra was Sharon
Abrams, and Terri Valdero, came from Fresno/ Kings. Assisting with
the beef education presentations were Cindy Kaess and John Cronin. |
CattleWoman Barbara Cowley with her
group of "Unsung Heros" at the Beef Education event |
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The half hour presentation by the
cattlewomen gave the message that beef cattle were PIONEERS
because they came to America with the early explorers; they are
NUTRITIONIST giving zinc, iron, protein, vitamins; cows help
SPORTSMEN with football balls, basket balls, baseballs and mitts
because of the leather from their hide. Cows are MECHANICS. Tires
are made from stearic acid, asphalt has a lubricant. They are
DOCTORS since many different kinds of medicine come from a cow.
Another hero is a FIREFIGHTER, eating the grass so we won't have
fires. They are RECYCLERS, eating almond hulls, citrus pulp, corn
stalks, potato peels, and cows are ENVIRONMENTALISTS since they
use land that can't be used of farming. The cows graze the
grasses and convert them to beef that we can eat. |
Sister Philomene Golonka,R.S.M. with
her 3rd graders from
Our Lady Of Perpetual Help School in Daly City.
Ariel was wearing a cowboy hat because she had caught her calf
when roping. |
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Bobbi explained that she was a cattle
rancher and she lived on a ranch.
If she found a sick animal she had to doctor it, and to catch it
she had to rope it. Then several children got to rope the calf
heads on the bales of straw with Bobbi and John's help. |
CCW members Carol Rivers and Patti
Ising of Alameda County with their group of school children on the
"cat walk" viewing the bulls and horses. |
A young teacher from the Mission
district said her class were Second Language Learners and one of
their units had been teaching the vocabulary of the farm, rodeo,
agriculture and farm workers. These were Spanish speaking children
learning how to orally speak the English language.
Each teacher received a packet with beef information, recipes, and
resource kits for the classroom from California Beef Council, and
a 34 page packet from CCW with work sheets on cattle and cattle by
products for use in their classrooms. |
American National CattleWomen President's Council
meeting in
Reno, Nevada in February 2008.
Jean Barton, newsletter chairman,
California CattleWomen president Judy Ahmann, and Barbara Cowley,
California Beef Ambassador chairman. |
Nadette Raymond was presented a
certification of appreciation for her work as American National
CattleWomen membership chairman at the ANCW convention in Reno,
Nevada. |
The 2008 National Beef Ambassadors
at American National CattleWomen convention in Reno, Nevada Feb.
6, 2008. back row: Michelle Wiggley CA, Caitlin Williams AZ,
front row Beth Wood WY, Leticia Varelas NM, and Jennifer Rassler
PA. |
The 2008 National Beef Ambassadors
were interviewed by Angus Productions during the ANCW Convention
in Reno, Nevada. Pictured are Caitlin Williams AZ, Laticia
Varelas NM, Beth Wood WY, and Michelle Wiggley CA. |
At the regional meeting during the
American National CattleWomen convention in Reno, Nevada,
California president Judy Ahmann, in red hat, extended an
invitation to come to Napa, CA on April 20-22, 2008. On left is
ANCW president Fita Witte, and Region VI director Joan Hemsted
watching. Photos courtesy of Jean Barton. |
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