Katelyn & Natalie Horning Receive Honors

Katelyn Horning, right, accepts her award from MFB President Carl Bednarski.

Sisters Katelyn and Natalie Horning, Manchester High School alumni, recently received individual agricultural related awards at the Michigan Farm Bureau’s 96th Annual Meeting in Grand Rapids.

Natalie Horning, center.

Katelyn Horning, along with 2 others, was awarded the 4-H Excellence in Agriculture award. With the 4-H Excellence in Agriculture award comes a $1000 grant for “volunteer training, supplies or curricula to enhance 4-H programming”. An active leader in 4-H since she was a teen, MSU graduate, Katelyn has been instrumental in reviving and reworking the dairy quiz bowl and judging in Washtenaw county.

Also, at the Farm Bureau’s 96th Annual Meeting, current MSU student, Natalie Horning received the Marge Karker Scholarship. The, $1000, scholarship was awarded to three MSU Agriculture and Natural Resources students. Natalie is currently studying agriculture food and natural resources education. She “hope[s] to become a high school agriscience teacher.” Horning said. “I want to teach the next generation about agriculture. It seems the general public sees farming as a dying business full of old men in overalls, but that is not the industry I know.”

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by Danielle Muntz

Danielle lives in Manchester Township and has many interests which she takes part in with varying degrees of success. She can be reached at Danielle.Does.Stuff@gmail.com.