- National 4-H Council has announced a repeat partnership with Southern States Cooperative retail stores to run the “4-H Paper Clover” campaign, an exciting consumer-driven fundraising promotion where consumers purchase a paper clover at the register for $1 from Sunday, Oct. 5 to Sunday, Oct. 19. A list of participating locations can be found here. Fifty cents from each $1 donation will go to the local 4-H program and the remainder will go to National 4-H Council to underwrite the promotion.
- Lori Hallowell has been promoted to vice president at Bader Rutter in the agency’s account management and public relations groups. Hallowell joined the agency in 1994 as an account executive.
- Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer welcomes the President’s intention to designate Elizabeth Johnson as Acting Under Secretary of Food Safety. Johnson has most recently served as Chief Assistant to Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner and Deputy Chief of Staff since May 2005. A registered dietitian, Beth Johnson joined USDA in 2002.
- Investigative reporter Tim Findley will be American Agri-Women’s keynote speaker at their annual convention on Nov. 5-9 at the historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio. Findley made a name for himself during the most liberal decade in the nation’s most liberal metropolis, San Francisco. He is a 25-year veteran of the media industry.
