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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TMN submittal: <a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/tuesday/form/submittal_form.html">http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/tuesday/form/submittal_form.html</a><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tuesday Morning Notes <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>October 8,</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 2013<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FROM THE DIRECTOR:<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As I mentioned in an earlier communication, the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) recently approved the University of Arizona's (UA) fiscal year 2015 general fund request which includes $3.8 million to increase the UA Cooperative Extension’s (CE) work in food and biosecurity and $4.2 million to transform veterinary medical education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The proposal is part of the Arizona University System's total state operating budget request, which ABOR will forward to the governor and Legislature in the near future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The UA funding for CALS CE would help the state of Arizona meet the scientific and societal challenges of keeping farm animals healthy, improving crop production in water-scarce environments, ensuring food safety and security, building 4-H youth development programs, improving health and nutrition education, and strengthening families and communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This funding would help us build programs in all 15 counties and on 5 tribal reservations combined with a network of campus specialists working in agriculture and natural resources, consumer and family sciences, and economic, community and youth development programs. We have the capacity to build upon a good record. For example, in 2012, UA CE helped 478,829 Arizona residents and enrolled 115,382 youth in 4-H programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We have the commitment and capacity in CE to implement and deliver the best and most efficient use of funding that may become available through the efforts associated with this request.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOCUS ON FACULTY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The impacts of climate change on tribal natural and cultural resources are taking center stage in a newly released special issue of the Journal of Climactic Change (Vol. 20, Issue 3). <b>Dr. Karletta Chief</b>, assistant specialist, was one of the 50 authors representing tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs to explore issues currently experienced by indigenous communities in the U.S. due to climate change, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods and water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw, and relocation. She co-authored two articles focusing on climate change impacts to tribal water resources an socioeconomic vulnerability of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe under climate change – <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0852-y">“Climate Change Impacts on the Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S.”</a> and <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0737-0">“Climate Change in Arid Lands and Native American Socioeconomic Vulnerability: The Case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.”</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dan McDonald</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, Area Associate Agent (Pima & Santa Cruz) & FCS & Associate Regional Specialist, will be honored with a Professional Achievement Award at the Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences Council of Alumni & Friends Annual Homecoming Award & Scholarship Luncheon on Friday, November 8 for his work with Pima County Cooperative Extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOCUS ON PROGRAMS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Adjacent to the historic Steele Indian School Park is the country’s largest vacant lot. Currently, <a href="http://www.keepphxbeautiful.org/">Keep Phoenix Beautiful</a> has undertaken the project, titled PHX Renews, as an effort to revitalize this vacant lot into a beautiful space for the community to come together. Keep Phoenix Beautiful has divided the lot amongst a variety of organizations and nonprofits allowing them to take ownership of the land and improve it in whichever way they see fit for the public. The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension in Maricopa County was given a plot of the land, which is being developed into an urban research farm. The Phoenix Urban Research Farm (PURF) is a test site for sustainable agricultural practices, provides hand-on training for students and supports the effort to expand the local food economy. Since November 2012, volunteers have donated $8,659 worth of their time to prepare the land for farming. The project was celebrated on September 21, the Activation Day for PHX Renews. The public was invited to participate in a free U-pick. Over 500 pounds of produced was harvested by 70 people of all ages. According to ASU School of Sustainability student intern Saritha Ramakrishna, "Activation Day was a really valuable experience because it enabled us to interact with the public in a meaningful way. The U-Pick, which generated interest from both participants and visitors to the site, was very successful in connecting members of the community with the project and urban agriculture as a whole. In addition, I was also able to talk to many different individuals volunteering and working for other organizations, and gain some insight into their understanding of locally grown food, and its place here in Phoenix." For more information, visit the <a href="http://phxrenews.org/">Phoenix Renews website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B050'>ARIZONA 4-H CENTENNIAL IS AROUND THE CORNER:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This Saturday, October 12, the long awaited <span style='color:#00B050'>Arizona 4-H Centennial BBQ and Celebration</span> will be held at the Maricopa Ag Center from 11:00am-3:00pm. More than 640 people are registered to attend, and a wide variety of activities and events are planned along with an induction of 74 Arizona 4-H Hall of Fame nominees. In recognition of 100 years of Arizona 4-H, Arizona Public Media recently ran a <a href="https://media.azpm.org/master/video/2013/10/2/hrhd/100_years_of_4h.mp4">video segment</a> on KUAT television. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2013 OVERVIEW REPORT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Copies of a new document describing a programmatic overview of CALS CE (<a href="https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/resources/2013_CALS-CE-OverviewReport_091813.pdf">2013 Overview Report</a> and <a href="https://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/resources/2013_CALS-CE-OverviewInsert_091813.pdf">Insert</a>) are being provided to all county offices, departmental/school units on campus, and our research/Extension centers for reference and distribution in the weeks ahead. You can click on the above links to view and/or download a copy of report.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>EXTENSION IN THE MEDIA:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://azstarnet.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/desert-foods-festival-explores-indigenous-edibles/article_92262737-b047-5c30-9101-0a877ca32d36.html">Desert Foods Festival Explores Indigenous Edibles</a> featured the Garden Kitchen (Arizona Daily Star, October 2)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW PUBLICATION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/az1606.pdf">Landscape Vines for Southern Arizona</a> by Peter Warren (pub #az1606) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>UPCOMING EVENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WRRC Brown Bag: </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://wrrc.arizona.edu/node/12468">Water Resource Impacts Embedded in the Western U.S. Electrical Energy Trade (Current Patterns and Adaptation to Future Drought)</a>, <b>Thursday, October 10</b>, 12:00-1:30pm, </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WRRC Sol Resnick Conference Room (350 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson), with guest speaker Dr. Benjamin Ruddell, Ph.D. (ASU.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Phoenix Master Watershed Steward Course starts <b>October 17 </b>and there are still seats available. This award-winning 40-hour course educates participants on the many issues surrounding Arizona’s watersheds. It includes classes taught at the Maricopa County Cooperative Extension office, which are complimented by hands-on educational experiences at local riparian habitats. The Phoenix course also features hot topics, which feature regionally relevant, timely information presented by local experts. <a href="http://extension.arizona.edu/maricopa-master-watershed-steward">Click here</a> for more information. <a href="http://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/resources/MWSapplicationfillable.pdf">Click here</a> to fill out an application and email to </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Kelseymorton@email.arizona.edu">Kelsey Morton</a>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences Council of Alumni & Friends Annual Homecoming Award & Scholarship Luncheon on <b>Friday, November 8</b>, McClelland Park (650 N. Park Avenue, Tucson). A special feature of this event is the “Back-to-School Experience” in McClelland 103 from 11:00-11:45am. For more information, contact the <a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/fcs/alumni">FCS Council of Alumni & Friends</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2013 Arizona Agriculture Literacy Days, <b>November 25-27</b> - Arizona Agriculture Literacy Days focuses on educating students about our connection to agriculture and the commodities produced on Arizona's lands. Many youth don't know where their food and clothing comes from and young children often think that it magically appears in the grocery and retail stores. The Ag Literacy program educates youth through the support of volunteers who read a provided book on agriculture to elementary school students. Please consider giving 30 minutes of your time by reading in a classroom near you. During their 8th year, the program will use a digital version of the soon-to-be published book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Arizona-Agriculture-Bees-Amazing-Adventure/dp/1589852672">Arizona Agriculture: Bee's Amazing Adventure</a>. This is the very first children's book entirely dedicated to Arizona agriculture and was written for 1st-4th grade and can be adapted for other grade ranges. Volunteers will receive access to the digital version of the book after registration. A free paperback copy of the book will be made available to teachers after they complete a feedback form. For more information and to register, visit the <a href="http://cals.arizona.edu/agliteracy/programs/az-ag-lit-days">Ag Literacy Program website</a> or contact <a href="mailto:BMoak@cals.arizona.edu">Brandon Moak</a> (602.827.8218).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jeffrey C. Silvertooth<br>Associate Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director for Extension & Economic Development <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>College of Agriculture and Life Sciences<br>PO Box 210036<br>Tucson, AZ 85721-0036<br>520.621.7205<br>520.621.1314 (fax)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To submit tips, suggestions, ideas for changes and anything that could help us be more effective, use the “<a href="http://extension.arizona.edu/state/directors-suggestion-box">Director’s Suggestion Box</a>” – all submissions are anonymous. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>