Tuesday Morning Notes

November 2, 1999

Attention: ALL College of Agriculture Faculty. The COA Faculty Annual Conference theme is C3: Relationships That Build Support (Campus, County and Community).  Russ Tronstad (Ag and Resources Economics) and Carol Willis (Graham County) are this year's co-chairs. This two day conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way, Tucson.  All administrators, teaching, research, and extension faculty should attend. Deadline for lodging (for out-of-Tucson faculty) is Friday, November 5, 1999.  Registration deadline is Monday, November 15, 1999. A tentative agenda can be found by linking from the registration form.  The registration form can be found online.  Registrants can sign-up for a Thematic Tract, a professional development session, and lunch choices for both days.  Registration material can be found at:
http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/register.html   Please contact Jack Roberts if you have any questions at 520/621-7209.

*  Arizona is one of nine new states selected to participate in an extended pilot of the MiniSociety(TM) entrepreneurship curriculum for youth ages 8-12 during the summer of 2000 and the following school year. Arizona will receive all the curriculum materials; an expense paid three-day training at the National 4-H Center Jan. 23-25 for six individuals per state who will actually work with youth; and implementation grants of $20,000 for each pilot state through a grant from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.  The six pilot counties are: Apache, Coconino, Graham,  Maricopa, Pinal, and Santa Cruz. The grant is initially for one year with opportunity for renewal. Jolie Ogg-Graybill will serve as state contact.  Congratulations!
 

* Dr. Ian Pepper has been working on developing a National Science Foundation Water Quality Center (WQC) for the past 3 years.  On August 1 we received word of the official NSF award.  The major source of funding for the Center is from Industry, with additional funds from NSF.  For the first year of the Center, total funds are in excess of $0.4 M, with five ongoing research projects.  A website for the Center can be found at  http://www.w-q-c.org. Eleanor Loya is the Administrative Aide for the Center.  We will update you on the WQC news as it happens.

*  The Safety Video Catalog, located at the Southwest Rural and Agricultural Safety Information System web-site:

http://cals.arizona.edu/agsafety/.  The videos will be loaned at no cost to the user. The new site Webmaster, Frank "Ed" Eaton, an Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering graduate student, has announced that safety video tapes may be reviewed and ordered from the Video Library section of the agsafety web-site.

REMINDER: - Rudy Schnabel’s Retirement Barbeque, Friday, November 12, 1999 at the Maricopa County Cooperative Extension office’s Palo Verde Room.  6 P.M. Social; 6:30 Steak or Chicken Dinner; and a 7:15 PM Program.  RSVP to Darlene Lyman 602/470-8086, extension 325. $20 covers gift and dinner.

- Public Forum/Natural Resource Town Hall on 11/13/99 in Pinetop-Lakeside, called “Living with our forest so our forest can live with us.”  For more information, contact Steve Campbell, 520/524-6271.

- Vegetable Workshop on November 18 in Yuma, at the Shilo Inn.  Call Barry Bequette, 520/726-3904 for more specific details.

-  CSREES UPDATE is available on the CSREES home page under "News and Information." CSREES home page URL: http://www.reeusda.gov

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  Jim Christenson, Director 
Cooperative Extension, College of Agriculture 
              Phone:  520/621-7209 
              FAX #:  520/621-1314 
          jimc@cals.arizona.edu
     http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/
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