See you next week at Annual Conference. No Tuesday Morning Notes, August 23.
As noted in last week's TMN concerning Background Checks and Fingerprinting, we were
a bit ahead of the University. Fingerprinting is coming but is not in effect yet.
As soon as Human Resources has the specific procedures worked out, we will let you know.
The webcasting presentation for the Pinal County Assistant/Associate Agent, 4-H Youth
Development will be Monday, August 29. The title of the webcast is ?Painting the 4-H
PictureAffecting the Lives of Youth and Adults in Pinal County Communities? and can be
viewed at: www.cals.arizona.edu/extension/webcasts.html. Candidates and times are
Cathy L. Martinez, 1:152:00 pm; Jeana Lambeth, 2:253:10 pm. For more information
please contact Glenda Thompson at 621-3621 or tglenda@ag.arizona.edu.
Congratulations to Russ Tronstad who received the Outstanding Extension Program Award
at this year's Annual Meting of the Western Agriculture Economics Association. At the
National Agriculture Economics meeting, Paul Wilson received the Distinguished Teaching
Award and Rob Innes became a Fellow of AAEA.
CALS Staff In-Service 2005 will be held in Tucson at the Sheraton Hotel (the old Hotel
Park, 5151 E. Grant Road), Tucson, November 9-10. As a part of the Extension Staff
Awards Luncheon on November 10, the 2005 Outstanding Staff in Cooperative Extension
Award will be presented. Arizona Extension has many excellent staff and I strongly
encourage you as a faculty member, CED or staff person to submit your recommendations
for these awards by Monday, September 19. Nomination criteria are available at
http://cals.arizona.edu/awards/extstaffawd.html -- please read the criteria
carefully. Submit your nominations to Steven Crofts, University of Arizona
Cooperative Extension, PO Box 210036, Tucson, AZ, 85721. If you have any
questions, contact scrofts@cals.arizona.edu (520-621-7145).
A Weed Management Workshop will be held in Parker on September 8 at the
Parker Elks Lodge, 711 Laguna Ave. The focus is to provide growers with
new information and data concerning control of weeds that are of particular
concern in the area. The schedule is from 8:30-12:15 and registration will
occur 8:30-9:00. For more information contact Eric Norton at the La Paz
county office, 928-669-9843.