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The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service

  
Vol. 8, No. 9   January 22, 2002


IN THIS ISSUE...

...Internships Available
...New Website for Small Businesses and Their Legal Questions
...Help Available to Small Businesses Impacted by Events of 9/11
...Attention FACS and 4-H Personnel
...Publications/Production Services Update
...Master Schedule

...Tuesday Letter Archives  


INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE
Five college students will have the opportunity to serve as K-State Research and Extension interns from June 2, to August 3, 2002. County or district offices that are interested in hosting an intern should watch their mail in the next few days for information on the program. The salary and benefits for the interns will be shared by the county and K-State Research and Extension (approximately $1800 each). Brief proposals from interested counties will be due on Friday, February 22. --Stacey M. Warner swarner@oznet.ksu.edu 

 

NEW WEBSITE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES AND THEIR LEGAL QUESTIONS
A new Small Business Administration (SBA) Website has been created to assist small businesses with their legal and regulatory questions. The Website is www.businesslaw.gov .

The site has lots of good information including: Starting a business, Managing finances, Handling employees, Doing business, and Getting out of business. Other things on the site are: State and Local Information, Federal Regulatory Information, Getting Legal Help, SBA News, Tools, Laws and Regulations, and even information for contacting your Congressman. It is a fairly comprehensive site.

If you have a small business in your county that could use this help or know of someone contemplating starting a small business, please suggest they check out this new Website. --Steven Graham sgraham@oznet.ksu.edu 

 

HELP AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESSES IMPACTED BY EVENTS OF 9/11
If you have a small business in your county that somehow has been impacted by the events of 9/11, there may be help available for that business from the Small Business Administration (SBA).

The purpose of the SBA's expanded Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is to provide funds to an eligible small business to meet its ordinary and necessary operating expenses that it could have met, but is unable to meet as a direct result of the destruction of the World Trade Center or damage to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, or as a direct result of any Federal action taken between September 11, 2001 and the effective date (October 22, 2001) of the regulations implementing this program.

A business which lost sales, has a key employee serving in the Reserves, or was in some way impacted by the events of 9/11 should visit the SBA Website: www.sba.gov/disaster  or call 1-800-366-6303 for more information. This program ends on April 22, 2002, so encourage any impacted businesses to act quickly. --Steven Graham sgraham@oznet.ksu.edu 

 

ATTENTION FACS AND 4-H PERSONNEL
Registration materials for the United Association Meeting: Coming Together for Kansas Families,  will be arriving in your offices the week of February 4. Please be looking for them. Registrations for the conference must be postmarked no later than February 20.

If your board is meeting prior to your having received registration materials and you need formal board approval to attend this conference, the following information may be helpful to you.

The conference begins at 1 p.m. on March 6, at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center and ends at 3 p.m. on March 7. Several meetings are scheduled for the morning of March 6. KA4-HA will meet from 8 - 10; KAFCS will meet from 11 -12; and the KAFCS Foundation Box Lunch will be held from 12 noon -12:45 p.m. Registration cost for the Conference is $75.00 ( $40.00 for one day attendance). The following additional expenses are optional; KAFCS Box Lunch, $12; Thursday evening dinner and entertainment at Prairie Rose Chuck Wagon, $30; Friday luncheon, $7. Blocks of rooms have been held at nearby hotels as noted in the registration material and cost from $60.00 to $75.00 per night, breakfast included. --Marcia R. McFarland  mmcfarla@oz.oznet.ksu.edu 

 

PUBLICATIONS/PRODUCTION SERVICES UPDATE
Missing Publications
The "Family Change" publications listed on the April 2002 New Publication Order Form were not on the secure Website January 14, as scheduled. We hope to have the problem corrected by the time you see this item. Although orders for the April publications were due February 1, we will extend the ordering period until February 8 to allow more time for consideration. We regret the delay. --Nancy Peavler npeavler@oznet.ksu.edu 

 

VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu .

DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 30, 2002, THROUGH FEBRUARY 5, 2002:

Wednesday, January 30
.... SC Annual Partnership Meeting, Wichita, KS, SC Area, J.D. McNutt jdmcnutt@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... SW KAA Screening, Garden City, SW Area, Conall Addison caddison@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... NW KAA Screening, Hoxie, NW Area, Walter Barker wbarker@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Sheep Schools, Belleville/RP and surrounding area, NE, Cliff Spaeth cspaeth@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Crop Production Update, Scott City/SC, Single county, SW, 9:30 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Crops School, Osage, Single county, SE, Night, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu 

Thursday, January 31
.... Ag Lenders Conference, Garden City, Statewide, 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., James Mintert jmintert@agecon.ksu.edu 
.... Ag Tech Day, Hugoton/SV, Single county, SW, 9:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu .... SE Annual Partnership Meeting, Chanute, SE Area, Benny Robbins brobbins@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Ag Tech Day, Ulysses/GT, Single county, SW, 1:30 p.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu 

Friday, February 1
.... Ag Lenders Conference, Manhattan, Statewide, 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., James Mintert jmintert@agecon.ksu.edu 
.... Coffee Shop Agronomy, Kinsley/ED, Single county, SW, 8:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... SC KAA Screening, Hutchinson, SC Area, Beth Hinshaw bhinshaw@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Agronomy Institute, Labette, SE Area, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu 

Saturday, February 2, through Sunday, February 10
.... Mexico Horticulture Study Tour, Mexico City, Statewide, Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@oznet.ksu.edu 

Monday, February 4
.... Alfalfa Production School, Republic Co., NE Area, Scott Staggenborg sstaggen@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Irrigated Grass, Ulysses/GT, Multi-county, SW, 11:00 a.m., Ron Hale rhale@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... No-till School, Deerfield/KE, Multi-county, SW, 11:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Cattlemen's Seedstock Showcase & Conference II, Phillipsburg, Multi-state, 10:00 a.m., Bob Broweleit bbrowele@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Irrigated Grass, Cimarron/GY, Multi-county, SW, 6:30 p.m., Ron Hale rhale@oznet.ksu.edu 

Tuesday, February 5
.... KSU Swine Profitability Conference, Manhattan, Statewide, Jim Nelssen jnelssen@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Soybean Profit Seminar, Lyon and surrounding area, SE, Gary Kilgore gkilgore@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Alfalfa School, Riley Co., NE Area, Scott Staggenborg sstaggen@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... No-till School, Minneola/CA, Multi-county, SW, 9:00 a.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu .... No-till School, Sublette/HS, Single county, SW, 2:00 p.m., Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu 

Tuesday, February 5, through Wednesday, February 6
.... ServSafe Manager Certification Course, Wichita, KS and surrounding area, SC, 8:30 a.m., Teresa Lang tlang@oznet.ksu.edu  and Karen Penner kpenner@oznet.ksu.edu 
.... Central Plains Irrigation Short Course, Lamar, CO, Multi-state, 9:00 a.m., Donna Lamm donnalamm@yahoo.com 

Tuesday, February 5, through Thursday, February 7
.... EFNEP/FNP Annual Conference, Manhattan, Statewide, 1:00 p.m., Karen Hudson hudson@humec.ksu.edu 

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