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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
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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
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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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