* Congratulations to Scottie Misner, State EFNEP Coordinator, who presided over the Arizona Dietetic Association’s Annual Meeting, June 9-12, 1999 at the Mesa Hilton as the incoming President.

* Congratulations to Ken Agnew, a staff member working at the Pesticide Information and Training Office, who was recently awarded the American Agricultural Economics Association’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award for 1999 for his thesis entitled “LinQuad: An Incomplete Demand System Approach to Demand Estimation and Exact Welfare Measures.”  Ken received his master’s degree from the Agricultural and Resource Economics department here at The University of Arizona.  His thesis advisor was Jeff La France, now at UC Berkeley.

*  All Extension personnel are invited to attend a tour of the NAU Onsite Wastewater Treatment Education Facility in Flagstaff on Friday, July 9. Tour starts at 11:00 A.M.  Please contact Kitt Farrell-Poe (520-782-3836) for more information, or to reserve a spot.

* The Arizona Farm Bureau and the College of Agriculture are hosting the Arizona Women in Agriculture Conference, Tuesday, August 10, 1999 on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.  Please contact Ruth Ann Fowler (621-3403) for more details.

* Please note the following Retirement Party dates on your calendar; more information will follow: - Woodie Winans, August 28 in Parker (location tba) - Howard Jones, October 20, 6:00 P.M., in Tucson (Pima County Cooperative Extension Office)

REMINDERS: - Safe Food 2000... Food Safety from the Field to the Table, July 21-22, 1999 at the Mesa Pavilion Hilton, 1011 W. Holmes Ave., Mesa (North of US 60 at Alma School Rd.).  For more information on registration and exhibiting, call 602/470-8086, Ext. 815 or e-mail mabgrall@cals.arizona.edu.

- 1999 Southwestern Low Desert Gardening and Landscaping Conference “Growing Through Knowledge”, July 30-31, Camelback Inn Resort & Spa, Scottsdale.  If you have questions or need more information, call 602/470-1556, Ext. 1017.  Website address:  http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/calendar/lowdsrt.htm

-  FINAL CALL for the Natural Resources Planning Retreat, June 28-29, 1999 at the Sheraton Four Points in Tucson, Noon - Noon.  Contact Patti B. to register (pattib@cals.arizona.edu).
 

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   James A. Christenson, Ph.D. 
      (jimc@cals.arizona.edu) 
  Associate Dean and Director 
Arizona Cooperative Extension 
        Forbes, Room 301 
    Tucson, Arizona  85721 
           520/621-7209 
       520/621-1314 FAX 
 
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