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cility and program were designed and planned by ag- 

 riculture and education professionals. The Agricultural 

 Craft Committee, under the leadership of Richard 

 Warner, owner of Warner Garden Shop in Sunapee, 

 and Martin Mitchell and Rick Barker from the NH State 

 Education Department, planned every facet of the pro- 

 gram from its inception. Each technical area of training 

 will be taught utilizing a competency profile designed 

 by the Agricultural Craft Committee and approved by 

 the NH State Education Department. The intent is to 

 give students the technical and behavior skills to suc- 

 ceed in their chosen field of agriculture. Examples of 

 competency clusters with dozens of competencies un- 

 der each cluster would be: retail flower shop opera- 

 tion, merchandising, customer relations, various floral 

 designs, indoor landscaping, propigating plants, seeds 

 and cuttings, applying fertilizers and chemicals, con- 

 trolling the plant environment, harvesting plants, and 

 personal attributes — plus dozens of other clusters and 

 hundreds of competencies. This will offer agribusiness 

 employers documented trained workers to select for 

 employment. 



The new Technical Center facility includes a large 

 headhouse/greenhouse area with a walk-in cooler, an 

 agricultural mechanics lab which includes five fully 

 equipped welding booths, a two-story cold storage 

 barn, a small animal care lab, and other support 

 spaces. The Rough Brothers Groton Control screen 

 houses are the state of the art designs with wall and 

 ridge vents controlling temperature and humidity. The 

 new tractor, sawmill, and sugaring equipment, in addi- 

 tion to neariy $200,00 of the latest equipment, will al- 

 low students to be trained to the highest level of 

 competency. 



The facility will be very busy evenings, summers 

 and weekends allowing our adult population to be 

 trained with the best technical competencies within 

 the agriculture industry. The Future Farmers of 

 America will be an integral part of the co-curricular 

 training of our students. The town of Newport has in- 

 dicated strong support for the Sugar River Valley Re- 

 gional Technical Center and the agriculture technology 

 program specifically. In April of 1991, over two-thirds 

 of the votes passed a bond to purchase the land the 

 new facility sits upon and complete the site work. It is 

 viewed as a gem in the Sullivan County Regions and 

 will allow our residents to be trained and retrained 

 with the latest skills needed in those technical areas, 

 it is a bridge in our school to work transition for our 

 students and and opportunity for training for our cur- 

 rent work force. 



There is a grand opening planned for Saturday, Oc- 

 tober 2, 1993 at the Technical Center in Newport. As 

 the Vocational Director for this new center, i invite you 

 to call me at 603/863-3759 and I will personally take 

 you on a tour of this new Technical Training Center. 

 Please come and see what is planned to train your fu- 

 ture employees. 



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