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Energy Awareness Week
Wonderful Wednesdays
The Environmental Stewardship Value of Harvesting Salt Hay
Ruth Lapp
Wednesday, March 17, noon
Cox Institute, room 24
dstiles@nsac.ca 893-6227
Free and open to the public, students, faculty, all! Refreshments served.
Check the RRC’s website for information on our research program, Changing Paradigms: www.nsac.ca/rrc
Fridays @ 3
Speaker: Lorne Crozier, NSDA
Topic: "Providing Tools for Pest Management Through the Minor Use Program"
Date: March 12
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Cox rm 257
Everyone welcome!
Refreshments provided.
Career Focus Program Information Session
Are you planning to hire a graduate for a work or research project? If so, attend the Career Focus Program information session for all the details you need to know.
Date: Monday, March 15
Time: 12:15 p.m. -1 p.m.
Location: Cox Institute room 136
Presenter: Robert Fraser, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Bring your own lunch.
CFP provides up to 50 per cent financial assistance towards salary costs when a young graduate with a post-secondary degree (agriculture-related program) is hired by an eligible employer. CFP benefits graduates by providing them an opportunity to enhance their skills during a job placement that will provide practical coaching and mentoring. Eligible employers can be from industry (farm operations), not-for-profit organizations, provincial and municipal governments, associations, boards, councils and universities.
For more information on how CFP can benefit you as an employer, please come to the above information session. Click here for the poster.
Recruitment Update
- Monica is in Colombia this week visiting a series of high schools as part of a trip that has been co-ordinated through EduNova. We are working with the education agency Study Union and Monica reports already three schools with students very interested in programs of study at NSAC.
- Back at the home front, Janet and Ashley have been busy responding to e-mail inquiries, conducting campus tours and following up with students who attended University Day.
- Sponsorships: Ski Wentworth hosted a national ski event that brought 120 junior high and senior high students from across Canada plus their parents to Wentworth, February 26 - 27. NSAC was a proud sponsor of this event. Marketing provided giveaways for their welcome bags and Recruitment sponsored a nutrition break and had promotion materials in the lodge.
NSAC Students Attend NSDA Rural Leaders Conference
On Friday, March 5, 10 of the 13 students from the leadership program attended the Rural Leaders Conference in Halifax at the Lord Nelson hotel. Sessions for the day included: Positive communication strategies, NS Outstanding Young Farmer, The Changing Face of Rural NS, Social Media, 5'C of Remarkable Leaders, Healthy Communities, Succession Planning for Your Organization, Effective Communications, Beyond the Bake Sale & Church Supper Community Fundraising, and ended off the day with Bill Gordan speaking about Outstanding Organizations, Outstanding People.
There were sessions that appealed to everyone within our group. One of the sessions helped open our eyes to the changes within rural Nova Scotia and how rural communities are going to be affected from the growing populations moving to urban centers. Dr. Jane Lewis of CBU spoke about positive communication strategies that leads people to realize that leadership is a practice not a position. Bill Gordon finished off with the 10 outstanding organizational situations and how you would rate within certain situations.
The students comments were all positive towards the conference.
New Face in Department
Good afternoon:
As executive director of Policy and Planning, it is my pleasure to welcome Erik Nowak to the post of OHS administrator. Erik will be based in Halifax and over the course of the next month or so will be making the rounds of Truro, Pictou and our regional offices to get to know you and your work. I'll let Erik introduce himself...
I would like to take this opportunity to formerly introduce myself. As of March 9, 2010, I assumed the position of OHS administrator for the Department of Agriculture and Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture. I will be stepping in for Tim Delaney who has taken on an acting post as manager of laboratory services. I look forward to undertaking this position and working with you all.
To give you all a little background about myself: My formal education and training in OHS has been obtained by the completion of my MBA, concentrating in OHS from the Sobeys School of Business at Saint Mary's University, as well as work experience with the Canadian Coast Guard in a Search and Rescue and OHS advisor capacity, as well as
experience working as a firefighter with the Department of National Defense, both of which I feel will aide me in this current role.
Diane Kenny, Executive Director
Policy and Planning
Department of Agriculture
Department of Fisheries & Aquaculture
Tel: 902-424-0308
e-mail: kennyd@gov.ns.ca
Fax: 902-428-5748
Scholarship Spotlight
Pork Nova Scotia Prize Presented
Benjamin McMahon, Canning, NS, was selected as the 2009 recipient of the $350 Pork Nova Scotia Prize. NSAC was pleased to have Terry Beck, Pork NS representative, attend NSAC’s Scholarship Banquet. Pork Nova Scotia sponsors a $350 prize to a Nova Scotia student with an interest and/or background in swine production. Selection criteria include demonstrated interest in the swine industry (through course or project work), academic performance, and financial need.
Photos of the Day
Congratulations to Kelsey Harpman. She is pictured here receiving her All Conference basketball award. Photo courtesy of Judy Smith.
2010 ACAA Women's Basketball All-Conference Team
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