The View on Consumer Education with Ashley Schlender

Certainly.

I serve on our board for Jefferson County and I'm the, we said P&E before, P&E stands for promotion and engagement.

So I'm the promotion and engagement chair for Jefferson County and I help a little bit with A in the classroom.

I just help with whatever is needed.

One thing of note that we started in the last few years that I'm excited about is we started up a meat raffle and it's a big fundraiser.

that we do in Jefferson County.

What's unique about our meat raffle is we get donations from local farmers and businesses, whether it's meat or whatever other products that they're making, and that's what we raffle off.

And our goal with that is to connect, maybe not a person that necessarily always knows a lot of farmers or farmers, producers of different products and connect them with some consumers and that.

So it's a neat thing.

It's been our third year and each year we've had a little more success and a lot, a lot of engagement, I guess, which is what our goal was.

So that's something I'm excited that we feature in our county.

I can, I can contest.

It was a packed, a packed establishment.

We might say, and everybody had a great time and it was a great fundraiser for for the Jefferson County Farm Bureau.

And you had a lot of involvement

from

the other board members.

So it's great to see.

Yeah, I have to say the other board members are very supportive of the idea.

I came to a meeting one month and I was like, I've got this idea.

What do you guys think? And they definitely support me and help me out with that.

So I appreciate that.

When it comes to your county makeup, Ashley, we also, you explained what P&E meant, but we also talked about District 1.

So District 1 is the southeast corner of the state.

And you guys have a lot of, you know, urban sprawl.