Congratulations to the winners of this year's Program Enhancement Awards:
Establishing Baseline Data for Community Character Education Programs, Cynthia
Flynn, project leader; Arizona Farm Safety Day - 2001, Glenn Wright, Paul
Baker, and Stephen Poe, project leaders; Arizona Highlands Horticultural
Database with Microclimate Applications, Chris Jones, project leader; Building
Better Child Care for Arizona: Meeting the Training Needs of the Child Care
Industry, Patty Merk, project leader; Diseases of Native Plants of Arizona
On-Line, Mary Olsen, project leader; Internet-based Ostoporosis Prevention and
Intervention Provider Education Program, Linda Houtkooper, project leader; and
Development of Insect and Weed Identification Web-Based Resources to Support
Delivery of Cross-Commodity IPM Concepts, Pat Clay, project leader.
* Congratulations to Monica Pastor, Agricultural Literacy Program
Coordinator,
and her team of volunteers. The Valley Forward Association awarded their
exhibit at EarthFest the "Best Interpretation of Theme". EarthFest is
coordinated by Valley Forward. Exhibitors have the challenge of educating
five
thousand K-8 students about their industry. This is the second year that the
agricultural industry has joined together to create an educational exhibit and
the second time they have won an award. The volunteers that helped Monica
Pastor include Vic Jimenez, Maricopa AG Center; Jeannette Fish and Pam
Justice,
Maricopa County Farm Bureau; Wendy Brake, AZ Beef Council; Joanne Schiller and
Kaye Lunsford, Dairy Council of AZ; Lynda Tatum, AZ Nursery Assn.; and Mary
Martin and Sherry Snow, AZ Dept. of AG.
* Joanne Littlefield has accepted new responsibilities. She has been an
Information Specialist in Maricopa County (75%) and ECAT (25%). Her ECAT time
will become 30% and in that role she will do Media Relations for the whole
College of Agriculture. Her media relations role will focus on Maricopa
County
audiences and involve close cooperation with the appropriate news media. This
does not mean she will do press releases for everyone; however, she will give
advice our faculty on how to work with the media. We envision this new
role as
working closely with the media to assist them in reporting our College
activities. She will continue her previous Maricopa County activities at the
county extension office and be located at the state relations office for her
media relations duties.
* Please join us in Welcoming to Dawn Gouge, Urban Entomologist to Big MAC.
Dawn started on April 10th and can be reached at 520/568-2273.
* The Community Planning and Design Workshop of the University of Arizona
announces the issuance of its year 2000 Request for Proposals for Planning and
Design Assistance. The RFP is intended for neighborhood organizations, small
cities and towns, rural associations and non-profit organizations seeking
assistance in community planning and design. The proposal is due May 2, 2000.
The Community Planning and Design Workshop of the University of Arizona is a
public service/community outreach arm of the College of Architecture, Planning
and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA). Housed in the Drachman Institute, the
Community Planning and Design Workshop is intended to bring the skills and
knowledge of the students, faculty and staff of CAPLA to communities in need
throughout Tucson, Pima County and the State of Arizona. Support funding is
provided by both CAPLA and the College of Agriculture through Cooperative
Extension.
The Community Planning and Design Workshop is offering its skills and
knowledge
in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and urban design to
community projects. The Workshop has assisted many groups over last ten years.
Projects are intended both to assist communities and to insure that students
involved are meeting their educational goals. The Community Planning and
Design
Workshop has limited cash funds to bring to these projects, therefore we ask
that community groups bring some of their own funds to support project
materials, supplies, reproduction, travel, etc.
For more information and/or an application, please call Corky Poster at
520-623-1722 or e-mail at: cposter@u.arizona.edu or fax at 520-623-1722.
* Mark your calendars and plan to attend the Desert Horticulture 2000
Conference at the Tucson Community Center, 260 S. Church in Tucson on Friday,
May 12, 2000. Registration fees include lunch: $35 before May 1; $55 after
May
1. No Purchase Orders accepted. For more information consult the Web site
at:
http://cals.arizona.edu/deserthort/, or contact John Begeman at 520/626-5161.
* UPCOMING EVENTS.
- The Annual Sweet Onion Festival will be May 20-21 and this year it has
relocated to Saguaro Ranch next to Glendale Community College.
- The 6th Annual Melon Field Day will be on Tuesday, May 23, at the UA
Maricopa
Ag Center. Details will be forthcoming and posted at:
http://cals.arizona.edu/maricopa/vegcrops/fielddaysmtgs.htm.
- The Safe Food 2000 Conference will be July 26-27 at the Mesa Hilton and a
major subject will be biotechnology impacts and its concerns.
- Planning is underway for the North American Farmers Direct Marketing
Association conference in Mesa. Sponsors and manpower assistance will be
needed
to make the January 15-21, 2001 conference a memorable desert education
experience for attendees.