AMARILLO — Donna Brauchi, long-time Extension agent in Gray County, has been appointed the new Extension director for Family and Consumer Sciences in the Panhandle district, effective Aug. 4. The announcment was made by Dr. Margaret Hale, assistant director for Family and Consumer Sciences, and Dr. Zerle L. Carpenter, director of the Texas Agricultural Extension…
EAST TEXAS– Drink more milk, eat more butter, and you may lower your chances for getting certain types of cancers, according to a dairy specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Moreover, the milk from cows that graze East Texas pastures may contain more anti-carcinogens — compounds that prevent cancer — than the milk produced…
COLLEGE STATION — For those who may say, “I don’t know how to do this,” a Bryan woman funded an endowment for Excellence in Extension Home Economics through the Texas A&M University Development Foundation. Florence Low, who retired from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in 1975, funded the endowment, which will be used for program…
BURNET — Rabies in coyotes and gray foxes haven’t been choked out yet in Texas, but the noose is tightening, thanks to a third successful year in a cooperative state program. The Texas Animal Damage Control Service, working with other government agencies, helped lead an aerial assault that spread baited rabies vaccine over 41,000 square…
COLLEGE STATION — Texas consumers will find their supermarkets and grocery stores to be just peachy in May. That’s when the first of the Texas peaches will be rolling into the produce sections from the Rio Grande Valley. If everything goes well, consumers will be able to find the quality and quantity for which they’ve…
EAST TEXAS — Stress is nothing new for women — but the pressure points can be different these days. “What’s changed is the complexity of the stress factors and the speed with which theyenter a person’s life, ” said Dr. Judith Warren, professor and gerontologist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Warren spoke at the…
WICHITA FALLS–Osteoporosis, a crippling and incurable bone disease which develops so slowly it goes unnoticed until it’s too late to prevent, afflicts some 24 million Americans. To help victims and families afflicted by the disease and health care professionals who deal with it, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service will conduct a one-day seminar April 1…
EL PASO– Looking for information on how to control cockroaches in your home? Or maybe you’d like to know what cholera is and how to prevent it. How about some information on how to work with children more effectively, or help your child succeed in school? Now you can get answers to these questions from…
COLLEGE STATION — They will meet the needs of children on a day-to- day basis, but new child care givers also have a need — one being filled by a Texas Agricultural Extension Service educational program. A recently enacted state requirement that all licensed child care providers undergo eight hours of training is the focus…
COLLEGE STATION — David Dean Collier was named the 1997 Minister of the Year on Feb. 18 at the Texas Conference of Church’s annual meeting in Austin. Collier has ministered to the congregation of the Highway 92 Church of Christ in Silsbee for the past nine years, and his parishioners say that he turned their…
