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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-04-22, Page 1inline Iucknowsentinel.com Get all of your news, sports and more. Serving Lucknow and surrounding area The Lucknow Sentin www.lucknowsentinel.com $L50 HST included PM40064683R07656 el Wednesday, April 22, 2015 II1I.111I1111J1JII111,11JJ1i1'111 ,p v P. -Mrd , .,. '�+� r4. Valerie Gillies/ Lucknow Sentinel Hosts of the Dairy Education Day for BPS addressed the students outside of the Angst barn before the tour. Facing are Peter Angst (checked shirt), Huron County Dairy Educator Annelies Ringgenberg (blue jacket), Denise Angst (grey sweatshirt). April 16, 2015. Bringing the Students to the Cows Valerie Gillies Lucknow Sentinel The Huron County Dairy Produc- ers Committee sponsor Dairy Edu- cation Day in elementary schools each year. Dairy Farmers of Ontario Dairy Educator for Huron and Bruce Counties, Annelies Ringgen- berg, explained that this program exists only in Ontario, with each county having an educator assigned to it, although some of the approximately 50 educators cover two counties. The educators go to the elementary schools to talk to students about dairy farms. The presentations are linked to existing school curriculum and are used to compliment the teachings. This year the students of Brook- side Public School were treated to a new approach to this program. Denise Angst had the idea of the program being presented at a farm to give the students the opportunity to see for themselves what happens on a dairy farm. Ringgenberg related, "Denise came to me with the idea of doing the program on their farm and I asked my manager. We got the green light." This is a first for this program. BPS students from Kindergarten to grade eight were divided into three groups, each visiting the farm for approximately 1.5 hours where they were further divided and rotated through three stations. Peter and Denise Angst helped deliver the program by personally explaining how things worked, nutrition needs and answering questions. Ringgenberg supplies an extra question and answer sheet to the older students where the answers spell out the statement "Milk is delicious." Ringgenberg and the Angst family stated in their invitation to BPS "It is very important to us to give students a chance to see how milk is produced these days and we are very excited to offer this opportunity to BPS students and staff." ayY " t- 1 .!i. moi• 1.- Madill Track Guelph Competition inline Iucknowsentinel.com Get all of your news, sports and more. Serving Lucknow and surrounding area The Lucknow Sentin www.lucknowsentinel.com $L50 HST included PM40064683R07656 el Wednesday, April 22, 2015 II1I.111I1111J1JII111,11JJ1i1'111 ,p v P. -Mrd , .,. '�+� r4. Valerie Gillies/ Lucknow Sentinel Hosts of the Dairy Education Day for BPS addressed the students outside of the Angst barn before the tour. Facing are Peter Angst (checked shirt), Huron County Dairy Educator Annelies Ringgenberg (blue jacket), Denise Angst (grey sweatshirt). April 16, 2015. Bringing the Students to the Cows Valerie Gillies Lucknow Sentinel The Huron County Dairy Produc- ers Committee sponsor Dairy Edu- cation Day in elementary schools each year. Dairy Farmers of Ontario Dairy Educator for Huron and Bruce Counties, Annelies Ringgen- berg, explained that this program exists only in Ontario, with each county having an educator assigned to it, although some of the approximately 50 educators cover two counties. The educators go to the elementary schools to talk to students about dairy farms. The presentations are linked to existing school curriculum and are used to compliment the teachings. This year the students of Brook- side Public School were treated to a new approach to this program. Denise Angst had the idea of the program being presented at a farm to give the students the opportunity to see for themselves what happens on a dairy farm. Ringgenberg related, "Denise came to me with the idea of doing the program on their farm and I asked my manager. We got the green light." This is a first for this program. BPS students from Kindergarten to grade eight were divided into three groups, each visiting the farm for approximately 1.5 hours where they were further divided and rotated through three stations. Peter and Denise Angst helped deliver the program by personally explaining how things worked, nutrition needs and answering questions. Ringgenberg supplies an extra question and answer sheet to the older students where the answers spell out the statement "Milk is delicious." Ringgenberg and the Angst family stated in their invitation to BPS "It is very important to us to give students a chance to see how milk is produced these days and we are very excited to offer this opportunity to BPS students and staff."