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Bellingham Team Scores Big with Double Winners

May 31, 2011 James Arena-DeRosa, USDA, Food & Nutrition Service Regional Administrator

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: Students at Bellingham (MA) Public Schools found the key to attracting some top individuals to their school for lunch: they asked a state senator, state representative, a food industry executive, the state Child Nutrition director and me to judge the school’s...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Connecticut Students Say, “Si, Si” to Fiesta Wrap on the Menu

May 31, 2011 Kenneth Sierra, Northeast Regional Public Affairs Director, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: It’s only natural that when the team from Charter Oak International Academy came up with their entry in the Recipes for Healthy Kids competition it would have true international flavor. The West Hartford, CT school is a magnet school with a global focus...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Four Agribusinesses Receive President’s ‘E’ Awards for Excellence in Exporting

May 31, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Foreign Agricultural Service, Public Affairs Specialist

In recognition of World Trade Week 2011, 27 companies and organizations were honored for excellence in exporting at the President’s “E” Awards Ceremony. This year marked the 50 th anniversary of the Presidential “E” Award, which was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to recognize persons...

Trade

A Green Ride to School

May 31, 2011 Sandy Miller Hays, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA's rich science and research portfolio.

Energy Research and Science

Texas High School Students Encouraged to Pursue Careers in Agriculture

May 31, 2011 Tanya Brown, USDA Farm Service Agency Public Information Specialist

It wasn’t supposed to happen. There wasn’t supposed to be an agriculture curriculum. There wasn’t supposed to be an instructor. And there definitely wasn’t any money to send seven African-American students from one of the smallest and lowest income towns in Texas to Washington, D.C., to speak with...

Initiatives Rural

USDA South Dakota State Director Discusses the Importance of USDA Programs to Native Americans During the National American Indian Council Convention

May 31, 2011 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer

South Dakota Rural Development State Director Elsie M. Meeks addressed a crowd of nearly 500 attendees at the 37 th Annual National American Indian Council Convention & Trade Show in Phoenix, Arizona last week. This year’s theme was “Connect to the Past, Commit to the Future.” Meeks, an Oglala Sioux...

Rural

Golden Smokey Award Honors 50 Years of Partnership

May 27, 2011 Kathryn Sosbe, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

What better way to celebrate wildfire prevention education than saluting a 9-year-old girl and an organization that has roots dating back to 1891.

Initiatives Forestry

This Recipe Will Make the Competition Green with Envy

May 27, 2011 Jessica Milteer, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog. Dr. Seuss wrote about green eggs and ham but McDougle Elementary School didn’t stick to the script. The Chapel Hill, North Carolina school stirred its way into the semi-finals of the Recipes for Healthy Kids Challenge by adding added nutritious brown rice...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

The Worst U. S. Tornado in 60 Years Hits Joplin, Missouri

May 27, 2011 Anita J. (Janie) Dunning, Missouri State Director, with George Thomas, Missouri Public Information Coordinator, Rural Development

The devastation in Joplin is unbelievable, heartbreaking and hard to describe. I have never seen anything like it and hope to never again. The twister tore a path a mile wide and six miles long through the main part of town. It impacted hundreds of businesses and destroyed over 2,000 homes. More...