Congratulations to three of our staff who received Extension of the Year
Awards at this year's Extension Awards Banquet held at the Marriott Hotel,
November 9. For 2002, Darlene Lyman, Maricopa County; for 2003, Linda
Stagi, Yuma County; and for 2004, Fannie Begay. They each do an outstanding
job. In addition, thanks to our planning committee (Steven Crofts, Sandra
Saad, Patti B, Joyce Cadenhead, Judith Krippner, Sharon Marchbanks, Cynthia
Pearson, Glenda Thompson) - the in-service was very successful.
Congratulations to Gerald Olson, Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development for
Mohave County, who was honored with the Meritorious Service Award presented
by the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NEA4H). Olson was among
1,200 youth professionals from across the nation to participate in the
association's 58th annual conference, October 31-November 5 in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma.
Current update on the Trade Adjustment Assistant Program: The 2003 Alaska
Salmon catch was TAA certified by FAS on October 15. The sign-up period
will run through January 13, 2005. Salmon fishermen who received technical
training for the 2002 catch will not be required to take the training again
for the 2003 catch, but may if they wish. Letters will be mailed out to all
of the 2002 applicants that received training informing them that they are
not required to take it again. FSA will accept that letter as verification
they received their training. Arrangements are in the works to conduct
workshops in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California, but training in all
of the others states will be offered via the web. To protect the people
doing the workshops in the four states mentioned above, the web-based
training will not be available until mid May. In December, applicants in
the other states will receive a letter giving them a password which will
allow them access to the web-based training. Under the leadership and
coordination of Russ Tronstad and Trent Teegerstrom (ARE), AZ CES has been
involved by providing coordinated sessions in the Phoenix area.
Youth Service America, the US Department of Justice and National Partners,
announced the availability of over 400 mini-grants in support of National
Service Day 2005 which will take place April 15-17, 2005. For more
information and deadlines, see each of the following sponsors: The National
Youth Court Center at the American Probation and Parole Association
(www.youthcourt.net); Constitutional Rights Foundation/Constitutional Rights
Foundation Chicago (www.crfc.org/); Family, Career and Community Leaders of
America (FCCLA) and FCCLA STOP, Phi Alph Delta Public Service Center
(www.pad.org - click Public Service Center), The Disney Corporation, Youth
Venture, Youth Leaders for Literacy, and the National Educational
Association.
On November 4-5, Helen Chipman, National Coordinator for Food Stamp
Nutrition Education-CSREES & USDA, conducted an Arizona Nutrition Network
Cooperative Extension Site Visit. Scottie Misner hosted Dr. Chipman and
provided an Extension overview and class observation at the Maricopa County
office with Stan Farlin, Janice Allison, Ruth Jackson, and Barbara Ashford.
Dr. Chipman was also provided with an Arizona Department of Health Services
overview by Sharon Sass, the Network Coordinator. Carolyn McMahon from DES
reviewed the relation of DES to Food Stamp Nutrition Education and Cassandra
Wilson showed Network social marketing materials and the 3 marketing
campaigns for FY05: Make Your Move-Increasing Physical Activity; Go Low, 1%
or Lower Milk; and 5 A Day-Way to Grow & Glow. Darcy Dixon, Jolie Graybill
and Sharon Hoelscher Day shared Cooperative Extension FSNE program
highlights. Other members of the Nutrition Network reviewed financial and
activity reports as well as evaluation results of network activities and
concluded with FSNE proposed framework and future directions. Overall, Dr.
Chipman was very impressed with Arizona's activities and the quality of
programming by the various units.
With over 2000 students and teachers visiting, MAC Farm Corn Festival
Ag-Venture will end it's season December 7. A new Healthy Water/Healthy
People Ag-Venture will be in place by January 1, 2005. It will focus on
water science. For more information contact Victor Jimenez,
vjimenez@ag.arizona.edu (520-568-2273).
UPCOMING DATES:
Distance Classes given by Linda Ffolliot will be as follows: January 19 -
Dreamweaver Basics; January 25 - Fireworks distance class to create web
graphics; February 25 - Photoshop to create web graphics. These classes are
taught through the web with video materials distributed on CDs. Registration
fee is $50 for each class. Register early before the classes fill up. For
more details see http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/ .