FORUM 



Pesticide Applicators 



Recertification 



Meeting 



Another pesticide recertification 

 meeting has been scheduled by 

 the New Hampshire Plant Growers 

 Association. The date is October 

 18, IP95, at the Granite Street Bar 

 & Grill. It will be a five-credit day 

 and will feature your colleagues 

 from the pesticide and entomology 

 industries. Everything's in the plan- 

 ning stage right now, but we expect 

 to have the same format as in the 

 past You can come for one credit 

 or for five. The meeting will be 

 free to all NHPGA members and 

 cost non-members $10.00. Lunch 

 (one hour) will be on your own. 

 The Granite Street Bar & Grill has 

 restaurant facilities that you're wel- 

 come to try. 



The NHPGA started organizing 

 these recertification meetings be- 

 cause many of our members are 

 unable to leave their businesses 

 and travel to different parts of New 

 Hampshire to earn only one or two 

 credits. This can be costly, espe- 

 cially for those owners who need to 

 have their employees do the same 

 thing. We'll try to provide speak- 

 ers and topics that relate to grow- 

 ers of today. 



These NHPGA meetings (held 

 every other year) and the New En- 

 gland Greenhouse Conference (held 

 on the alternate years), plus other 

 meetings held by other local orga- 

 nizations, should give you plenty 

 of opportunity to obtain all the 

 credits you need. 



I would like to hear any com- 

 ments or questions; tips on how to 

 improve are helpful. You can fax or 

 write me, but remember that your 

 government makes these rules — 

 the NHPGA doesn't. We're just try- 

 ing to make it easier to comply. 



Thank you. 



Robert E. Demers, ]r 

 President. NHPGA 

 [telephone. 

 603-625-8298) 



The Return of the 

 Notifications 



(from "Meekly Market Bulletin, 

 November 23, 1994) 



The Division of Pesticide Control 

 will publish listings of recertifica- 

 tion sessions in the Weekly Market 

 Bulletin, starting immediately. The 

 notices will include the name, 

 date, and address of the session, 

 what type of applicators it applies 

 to, the name and phone number of 

 the contact person, and the amount 

 of credit granted. 



About two years ago, the recerti- 

 fication system changed and we 

 were no longer able to publish the 

 listing of recertification meetings 

 Since then, we have received many 

 comments and suggestions from 

 applicators pointing out the useful- 

 ness of that system and the diffi- 

 culties that are occurring now in 

 trying to find out what is available. 

 Because of the demand, we are try- 



ing to do our best to publish all of 

 the recertification meetings being 

 offered. 



The Division thanks all those ap- 

 plicators who have contacted us 

 and made suggestions concerning 

 this problem. 



Murray L. McKay, Director 

 Division of Pesticide Control 

 [telephone: 603-271-3550) 



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BOARD HIGHLIGHTS 



November 8 (Ann, Bob, Chris, Peter, Tammy) |eff Huntington, 

 representing the FFA Foundation, an arm of the FFA that solicits fund- 

 ing, talked about the FFA and some of its needs; the Board voted to 

 make a contribution. 



December 6 (Ann, Bob, Chris, Peter, Tammy) It was decided to 

 begin transferring money to the research fund, putting $400 per 

 month into the fund for the next year. )im Truncellito of Davis, 

 Towie, Gearan, & Truncellito, a Concord insurance and financial ser- 

 vices firm, will oversee the fund. 



It was decided to do something more hands-on at Farm & For- 

 est this year and that a "potting bench" where each child visiting 

 could pot up his/her own plant would be fun and appropriate. The 

 design of the booth, the logistics (how would the plant be wrapped 

 to protect it from the cold?), the type of plant material, and the 

 manning of the booth were discussed. 



The NHPGA will sponsor a trophy at the NH Orchid Society 

 Show in April. 



Pleasant View Gardens will be hosting a PPGA Geranium Con- 

 ference the first weekend of August (4-6) and it was decided to tie 

 in the NHPGA Summer Meeting with this event, having the meeting 

 on either Thursday, August 3, or Friday, August 4. This would allow 

 members to participate in the Conference, hearing nationally-known 

 speakers and talking to some of the country's leading geranium 

 specialists. 



February & March 1995 



