Mary Page, Chair of the SCC from 2000 to 2006, is honored with the Outstanding Community Service Award  on April 22, 2008.

Joining her are grand-daughter Sara, husband Jim, and colleages, John Wallace, Kathy Draeger, Dorothy Rosemeier, Okey Ukaga, Linda Kingery and Erin Meier.

In an effort to address and explore how local foods can be an economic development engine for rural communities,Congressman Collin Peterson, Chair of the House Agriculture Committee hosted the first Home Grown Economy conference at University of Minnesota Morris on April 2, 2007.   Proceedings are posted at http://www.morris.umn.edu/HomeGrownEconomy/.  

The second conference in this series was held at the University of Minnesota Crookston campus on March 31, 2008  Home Grown Economy 2008

Scenarios are simply stories that describe plausible alternative futures. They inform the present by helping us to understand the impact of choices and actions within a range of possible futures. Scenario development allows us to envision the unexpected, to think systemically and to consider links between human and natural systems.     Kris Johnson, Coordinator

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