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Vol. 7, No. 15 February 27, 2001
IN THIS ISSUE...
...Ag Telecommunications Grants
...Schedule A Appointments
...Basin Advisory Committee Meetings
...Spring Action Conference Information at Research
and Extension Homepage
...Leavenworth County Extension Has Moved
...Express CD Rom
...New Pride Program Coordinator Announced
...KAE4-HA Members Encouraged to Submit Entries
...Notice to KEAFCS Members
...Resources for School Enrichment
...Order Purple Tablecovers for Display Tables
...Building is Bugged
...Education Matters
...Master Schedule
...Tuesday
Letter Archives
AG TELECOMMUNICATIONS GRANTS
Announcement regarding Ag Telecommunications Grant pre-proposals
will be made on or about March 19. There will be about four weeks
following the 19th for pre-proposals to be submitted. Be watching
for the formal announcement and be thinking about possibilities. --Dick
Wootton rwootton@oznet.ksu.edu
SCHEDULE A APPOINTMENTS
Employees currently on CSRS and FERS Federal retirement programs
hold a Schedule A appointment. There is new consideration within USDA
to rescind Schedule A appointments and to 'grand' all current employees
into their current benefit package. The
plan under discussion would also allow transfer of employees among
universities. ECOP (Extension Council on Organizational Policy) has
reviewed the proposal and supports the approach that has been taken by
USDA. As this discussion continues, we will keep you up to date. At this
point it appears that our employees' interests have been protected.
--Dick Wootton rwootton@oznet.ksu.edu
BASIN ADVISORY
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
The next round of BAC meetings are scheduled February 26, through March 8.
The agenda includes presentations about the preliminary draft of the 2003
Kansas Water Plan. This is an opportunity for public input to the Kansas
Water Plan. It is especially important that agents attend these meetings.
I want to alert you of these dates just in case you have not already seen
them. Please forward this to other people who should know about these
meetings.
February 26 Kansas-Lower
Republican - 1 p.m. - Manhattan, Fire Station on Dennison
February 27 Walnut - 7 p.m. -
El Dorado, Chamber of Commerce
February 27 Lower Arkansas
- 1 p.m. - Wichita, Great Plains Nature Center
February 28 Missouri - 10 a.m.
- Atchison, Courtney Turner Board Room
February 28 Marais des Cygnes
- 4 p.m. - Ottawa, Lake Region RC and D Office
March
1 Verdigris - 1 p.m. -
Neodesha, Housing Authority
March
1 Neosho - 7 p.m. -
Burlington, Coffey County Courthouse
March
6 Smoky Hill-Saline - 1
p.m. - Hays, City Commission Room
March
6 Solomon - 7 p.m. -
Stockton, Rooks County 4-H Building
March
7 Upper Arkansas - 7
p.m. - Jetmore, King Center
March
7 Upper Republican - 10
a.m. - Colby, Ramada Inn
March
8 Cimarron - 10 a.m.
- Liberal, City Hall, Council Chambers
A complete listing of the Basin Advisory
Committee meetings with more details about time and location are contained
on the Kansas Water Office web site at: http://www.kwo.org/bac/schedule.html
. --Morgan Powell mpowell@bae.ksu.edu
SPRING ACTION
CONFERENCE INFORMATION AT RESEARCH AND EXTENSION HOMEPAGE
Click on "Spring Action Conferences 2001" button on the K-State
Research & Extension Homepage for information on this year's meetings.
The purpose of Spring Action Conferences is to strengthen programs through
dialogue between state-wide issue teams, Extension specialists, and
agents. This year they will be held in Garden City and Lawrence. You may
choose to attend either event regardless of your Extension area.
HOTEL RESERVATIONS ARE AN URGENT PRIORITY.
It's very important to make your hotel reservation for the conference you
plan to attend.
We hope that everyone will be involved with
submitting at least one Program Highlight that you may have done
individually, jointly or a as a member of a teaching block, or team. Your
Annual Accomplishment Report(s) would be a great place to find portions
already written for this piece. See the website for the Program Highlight
format at http://intranet.oznet.ksu.edu/in_sac/handoutOutline.htm
. We want you to be able to share the great things you are doing and what
you have learned from the way in which you went about your program. Send
these to Daryl Buchholz by March 16. --Gary Gerhard, Daryl Buchholz, Paula
Peters
LEAVENWORTH
COUNTY EXTENSION HAS MOVED
The Leavenworth County Extension Office has moved and is now
back on line. Their new address is:
Leavenworth County Extension
Office
500 Eisenhower Road, Suite 103
Leavenworth KS 66048-4969
Phone (913) 250-2300
FAX (913) 250-2312
--Sy Nyhart snyhart@oznet.ksu.edu
EXPRESS CD ROM
The 8th edition of the Express CD-ROM, which will contain all of the
current Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Research publications
that we have in electronic form, is in the planning stage. We plan to
start work on it sometime in Fiscal 2002, rather than to try to complete
it for this fiscal year, which ends June 30. Now that counties have the
equipment for better web access, we expect that a less frequent
publication schedule for the Express CD-ROMs will be adequate, and will
allow us to spend more time on projects such as making it easier to
search our material at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/
. --Amy Hartman ahartman@oznet.ksu.edu
NEW PRIDE PROGRAM COORDINATOR
ANNOUNCED
In an internal transfer from his work with the Kansas Environmental
Leadership Program (KELP), Dan Kahl will be assuming responsibilities as
PRIDE Program Coordinator beginning April 1, 2001. Dan came to K- State
Research & Extension in 1998 as Extension assistant for KELP and has
been housed within Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Dan has a
Masters Degree in leadership studies from Ft Hays State University.
Prior to that, he received his BS from Iowa State University in
Fisheries and Wildlife, and had several years experience working in
several capacities including camp director for a church-affiliated camp
in NW Iowa. Dan brings a wealth of experience on leadership principles
and community-based planning and organization to the position of PRIDE
coordinator. Dan and his wife, Joan, have two boys. --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@oznet.ksu.edu
KAE4-HA MEMBERS ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT
ENTRIES
All members of KAE4-HA are encouraged to
submit entries for Communicator Awards by March 15, to Phyllis Kriesel,
Cherokee County. Complete details can be found at: www.nae4ha.org
. There are fourteen different class categories, and winners will be
announced April 19, at the business meeting in Wichita. --Phyllis
Kriesel pkriesel@oznet.ksu.edu
NOTICE TO KEAFCS MEMBERS
Now is the time to apply for the Distinguished Service Award,
Continued Excellence Award, Florence Hall Award and the Extension
Educator of the Year Award. Applicants must be a members of KEAFCS with
10 or more years of Extension Service. The application is available on
the national web site which is www.neafcs.org
. Applications are due to Derinda Bussman, Barton County Extension
Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, 1800 12th Street, Great Bend, KS.
67530. Due by March 12. --Derinda Bussman dbussman@oznet.ksu.edu
RESOURCES FOR
SCHOOL ENRICHMENT
If you are looking for science-based resources for new school
enrichment ideas, check out this catalog from Delta Education, call
1-800-442-5444 to request a catalog, or check their website at www.delta-ed.com
. They offer a broad range of topics including weather, earth science,
rocketry, lab supplies, electricity and energy and lots of other tools,
and neat stuff! --Steve Fisher sfisher@oznet.ksu.edu
ORDER PURPLE
TABLECOVERS FOR DISPLAY TABLES
We have received requests to order more purple tablecovers with the
K-State Research and Extension logo, for use with displays of various
sorts. We probably have enough demand to make it worth while to poll
everyone and pull together a unified order.
The tablecovers will be the same as we
ordered last time, i.e. purple in color with a white logo. They are made
of durable 7 oz. PolyCotton Twill fabric which is washable. The
tablecovers will be 60" x 156", which is normal tablecover size.
If we have 6 or more orders, the covers will cost $124.12 each. If we have
12 or more orders, they will cost $98.23 each. Hopefully, we can order 25
or more, and they will cost only $87.37 each. Fifty or more would cost
$78.77 apiece, but I doubt we will order that many.
If your program, department, or office
would like to order a tablecover(s), please e-mail my secretary Janet
Wenderott, jwendero@oznet.ksu.edu
with: number of tablecovers, contact name and address and FEIN number. You
will be invoiced directly by the vendor. Please contact us with your order
by March 9, 2001. We will place the order and you will receive your
tablecover(s) around the middle of April. --Steven Graham sgraham@oznet.ksu.edu
BUILDING IS
BUGGED
The bugs are back in the Distribution Center! "Insects in
Kansas" is now back from the bindery, better than ever with a larger
wire-bind and heavier cover. The 520-page, full color book contains more
than 900 photographs. It's the classic field and study guide for
arthropods in the American heartland, with notes on observation and
collection of specimens, and the impact of various species on crops and
the environment. It's perfect for any entomologist -- from a beginner in
4-H to an expert on the topic.
Cost for external customers is $25 plus
shipping and tax (if applicable); internal customer cost is $18.66 plus
shipping. All books are shrink-wrapped and sent via UPS. Invoices are
included with shipments and are due upon receipt.
To order ...
Call: 785-532-5830
Fax: 785-532-7938
E-mail: orderpub@lists.oznet.ksu.edu
Write: "Insects in Kansas"
Kansas State University
Distribution Center
24 Umberger Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-3402
Nancy Peavler
EDUCATION MATTERS
The Adult Education Summer Institute XII will be held June 26-29,
2001 at the Kansas State University Student Union in Manhattan. This
year's theme is "Adult Education: It Works For Kansas." The
institute provides professional development opportunities for adult
educators, program directors, volunteers, and partners involved in adult
education and literacy. For more information or to receive a brochure,
call 785-532-5569. Exhibit information and registration information is
also available via the World Wide Web at http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/conf/summerinstitute
.
VIEW
THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS .
Submit
corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu
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DATES TAKEN FROM THE
MASTER SCHEDULE FOR MARCH 7, 2001, THROUGH MARCH 13, 2001:
Wednesday, March 7
.... Prescribed Burning Workshop, Riley and surrounding counties, NE,
SE, & SC, Paul Ohlenbusch pohlenbu@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Entomology/Plant Pathology Agent Update, Colby, NW Area, 9:30 a.m.
- 3:30 p.m., H. Leroy Brooks lbrooks@oznet.ksu.edu
.... FNP Area Meeting, Garden City, SW Area, 10:00 a.m., Karen Hudson hudson@humec.ksu.edu
.... Weeds School, Butler and Cowley Counties, SC, late p.m., Dave Regehr dregehr@oznet.ksu.edu
Wednesday, March 7,
through Friday, March 9
.... New Agent Communication Training, Manhattan, Statewide, 8:00 a.m.,
Bob Furbee bfurbee@oznet.ksu.edu
.... State 4-H KAA Screening, Manhattan, Statewide, Steve Fisher sfisher@oznet.ksu.edu
Thursday, March 8
.... Prescribed Burning Workshop, Douglas and surrounding counties, NE
& SE, Paul Ohlenbusch pohlenbu@oznet.ksu.edu
.... No-till Practices and Management, Dickinson, Single county, SC, Stu
Duncan sduncan@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Entomology/Plant Pathology Agent Update, Garden City, SW Area, 9:30
a.m. - 3:30 p.m., H. Leroy Brooks lbrooks@oznet.ksu.edu
.... FNP Area Meeting, Hutchinson/RN, SC Area, 10:00 a.m., Karen Hudson hudson@humec.ksu.edu
Friday, March 9
.... FMHA Crop Production Module, Garden City/FI, Single county, SW,
9:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Entomology/Plant Pathology Agent Update, Hutchinson, SC Area, 9:30
a.m. - 3:30 p.m., H. Leroy Brooks lbrooks@oznet.ksu.edu
Monday, March 12
.... Cotton Production Meeting, Rice, Single county, SC, 1:00 - 3:30
p.m., Stu Duncan sduncan@oznet.ksu.edu
Tuesday, March 13
.... Entomology/Plant Pathology Agent Update, Chanute, SE Area, 9:30
a.m. - 3:30 p.m., H. Leroy Brooks lbrooks@oznet.ksu.edu
Tuesday, March 13,
through Wednesday, March 14
.... ServSafe-Serving Safe Food, Topeka and surrounding area, NE &
SE, Karen Penner kpenner@oznet.ksu.edu
.... ServSafe-Serving Safe Food, Lawrence/DG and surrounding area, NE
& SE, Karen Penner kpenner@oznet.ksu.edu
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