A reminder that the registration deadline for the CALS Faculty Conference is
July 23. Register online at www.cals.arizona.edu/calsnet/conf. Poster
presentations must be registered by August 1. Poster presentation space is
limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Yavapai County officially celebrated the opening of their new office in
Prescott located at the rodeo grounds. An advisory committee meeting was
held from 10:00-12:00 with a County Supervisor, Dean Sander, Dave Cox and
Jim Christenson in attendance. More than 100 people viewed the new
facilities during the afternoon. These facilities have more than double the
space of the old facilities and are very impressive. Congratulations.
Last week 65 youth and adults met for the Arizona 4-H Teen Congress held at
the U of A. Training was conducted by youth and adults in Character Counts!,
Youth-Adult Partnerships, and Officer Training, with the entire group
participating in a facilitated deliberation on violent kids, along with
community service. Thanks to Lisa Lauxman, Sandra Saad, Bob Peterson,
Esther Peterson and Jennifer Stapp for running this great program and for
Carol Willis and Kim Gressley for running the workshops an community
service.
The Arizona 4-H Teen Council is transition to a statewide youth-adult
partnership council. Each county is encouraged to recruit 2 youth and 2
adults to serve as their county youth-adult team. The Arizona 4-H
Youth-Adult Council (YAC) will provide program direction training
development as well as communication. A statewide retreat will be held,
August 7-8 at Chauncey Ranch. The state deadline for YAC application is
July 28. Forms may be found at http://ag.arizona.edu/4-h/leadership.html .
The Arizona Community Vitality Initiative Workgroup is making available
three $1,000 competitive grants to promote university and community
partnerships in community vitality/community development. A university
community partnership is required. Matching funds are encouraged but not
required. The deadline for submission of electronic applications is August
13. Winners of the competitive grants will be announced at the 2004 Annual
Conference. For more information and detailed instructions for application,
please point your browser at http://ag.arizona.edu/yuma/ and click on the
downloadable application form and instructions. The form is provided in
Microsoft Word format.