Congratulations to Bob Kattnig who will receive the Arizona Cattle Growers
"Wrangler of the Year Award" on August 7 at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
Each year the Arizona Cattle Growers recognize the individual they believe
has been most critical in helping the ranching industry develop programs
and in meeting their goals with the award. In presenting Bob with the
award, Jeff Menges, President of the Arizona Cattle Growers, cited Bob's
role in assisting ranchers with drought programs and his work with the
Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service on behalf of Arizona ranchers.
Thanks to Bob Collier and the faculty of Animal Sciences who, along with
Pat Reid, Bob Glock, Dean Fish, Jim Sprinkle, Dave Schafer, Bopper and
other Ag Economics faculty, made the 2003 ACA/ASC/AWPA Annual Convention a
great event.
Congratulations to the following Arizona agents who received awards at the
National Association of County Agricultural Agents Annual
Meeting/Professional Improvement Conference in Green Bay, WI, July 13-17:
Jack Kelly - Achievement Award as a National Finalist in Extension
Programs-Search for Excellence (for SmartScape); Lucy Bradley -
Communication Award as a National Finalist in both the Learning Module
Category and the Web Page Category and as a Regional Finalist in the Team
Newsletter Category; Jeff Schalau - Regional Finalist in the Fact Sheet
Category. Outstanding work!
I also want to thank Fred Deneke, School of Renewable Natural Resources,
for his contributions to Cooperative Extension over the past several years.
Fred is returning to D.C. and has been "on loan" from Forestry in USDA.
He provided leadership to our forest program, helping to write grants,
prepare publications and facilitate meetings. The publications were very
timely given our fire situation this year. Thanks, Fred, good luck and
keep in touch.
The designation of All-American Selections Display Garden has been awarded
to John Begeman and the Pima County Cooperative Extension by the
Chicago-based All-American Selections Board of Directors. The garden,
which is to be installed at the Pima County "Our Yard" Landscape Learning
Center, will be the first such garden in the Desert Southwest. Established
in 1933, the All-American Selections is a nonprofit organization devoted to
the testing and introduction of significantly improved new flowers and
vegetables grown from seed and bedding plants. The new Pima County
Extension AAS Display Garden is scheduled for opening to the public in the
spring of 2004.
With a thanks to those who emailed in some of their most recent personnel changes,
the latest edition of our on-line Faculty/Staff Roster (8/5/03) is now available
under the "Personnel" section of our website. You can link directly to it at:
http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/personnel/20030805roster.pdf.
The Arizona Cooperative Extension, Arizona Community Building Initiative (ACBI)
Working Group and the Western Rural Development Center are partnering to provide
mini-grant opportunities to multi-disciplinary teams to help promote and mobilize
work or discussion around community needs, facilitate further fund development,
and continue community development efforts. The funding is intended to be used
for "seed" money rather than for "capacity building." Funding is to be provided
at two levels: $500 for start-up projects and $1,000 for community projects
that currently exist and are ongoing. The total amount of funds to be awarded
for 2003-2004 is $4,500. Funds may be used for items that would enhance the
development, assessment, design, implementation, and/or evaluation of community
projects such as: consultants, incentives, travel, room rental, printing, and
meeting expenses. Requests for funding should be submitted electronically by
5:00pm, Friday, September 5, 2003 to Barry Bequette, Yuma County Director and
ACBI Co-Leader. Funds will be available October 1, 2003 and the funding period
will extend to May 1, 2004 (with a final report is due May 30, 2004). For more
information and to obtain the format for the grant application, point your browser
to http://ag.arizona.edu/yuma/ and
follow the link to the "Community Development Mini-Grant Opportunity" page.
For questions, contact Cynthia Flynn, Pima County Director; Juanita Waits, Maricopa
County Area Agent; Barry Bequette, Yuma County Director; or Beth Tucker, Coconino
County Director.
ECAT is offering two distance classes in the fall-Dreamweaver Basics (9/3-10/8)
and Creating and Modifying Images for a Website Using Photoshop 7 (10/16-11/6).
Each class will be taught using WebCT, can be accessed through your local computer/browser,
has a fee of $20 each per registrant (payable by IDB or personal check), and
a time commitment for each class would be about 2 hours per week. Both classes
are open to College employees, students, and volunteers, but volunteers would
need to be sponsored by the appropriate department/county in order to get a
University NetID to use the WebCT system. For details about each class, prerequisites
and requirements, see links off the general ECAT classes page at http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/.