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The clubs sometimes met in rural schoolhouses, such as the Galen Elementary School in Macon County, Tennessee. [40] Home demonstration agents serving rural women overlapped with 4-H clubs, including in Montana. [4] In 1951, 540 different home demonstration clubs employed 4H agents. [41]
Village cooperatives are cooperatives in rural areas that are engaged in the provision of community needs with agricultural activities. [1] Village cooperatives may also be defined as an umbrella organization of social and economic character and as a forum for the development of rural economic activities organized by the community and for the community itself.
Holland Township is the site of the Holland Energy Plant, a natural gas fired energy production facility owned and operated by Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative and Wabash Valley Power Association, [4] as well as the Delbert Mundt Water Treatment Facility owned and operated by EJ Water Cooperative of Dieterich, Illinois.
Gosfield North Communications Co-operative ; Hay Communications Co-Operative [8] Hurontel Telecommunications Co-operative [9] Lansdowne Rural Telephone Company [10] Mornington Communications Co-operative [11] Quadro Communications Co-operative [12] Tuckersmith Communications Co-operative [13]
These include water and waste treatment, electric power, and telecommunications services. [2] It is an operating unit of the USDA Rural Development agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). It was created in 1935 as the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), a New Deal agency promoting rural electrification.
The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to land-grant universities, intended to inform citizens about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues (National Sea Grant College Program), and related subjects.
NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association (NTCA) is a membership association with the goal of improving communications services in rural America. With a membership comprising over 850 independent rural American telecommunications companies in 46 states, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] NTCA provides training and employee benefit packages to its members. [ 3 ]
Girl Scouting was an important aspect of life in York Center. The Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana now serves the area which was led by R. Hopley "Hop" Roberts in the days when it was part of the DuPage County Council. [11] The York Center Cooperative was legally dissolved in 2010. [12] [13]