{"id":10802,"date":"2016-02-05T09:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T15:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:43:21","slug":"charles-eastin-outstanding-service-award-nomination-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=10802","title":{"rendered":"Charles Eastin Outstanding Service Award Nomination Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadline\u00c2\u00a0February 15, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

To recognize the contributions of the hundreds of volunteers and leaders in the agriculture, food and fiber communities who are dedicated to increasing public awareness of agriculture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vital role in our society, the Charles Eastin Outstanding Service Award will be presented to an outstanding individual who has contributed as an advocate for communications between farm and city.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe nominee can be any person over 21 years of age.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dCurrent members of the Agriculture Council of America Board of Directors are not eligible.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe person may be nominated by anyone active in agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe completed application should be forwarded to the the Agriculture Council of America via email at info@agday.org<\/a><\/span> or submitted online at\u00c2\u00a0www.agday.org<\/a><\/span> by February 15, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dA three-member committee, including at least one member of the ACA Board of Directors will judge the applications and select the recipient.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe award will be presented at the National Ag Day Luncheon in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe winner will be reimbursed for reasonable travel expenses to attend the annual Farm-City event to receive the award including coach airfare or mileage for reasonable driving distance, 2 nights hotel room and a $50 per diem for meals and other expenses.<\/p>\n

The Charles Eastin Outstanding Service Award is named in honor of Charles \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Charlie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Eastin, DVM, who passed away at the age of 86 on January 28, 2011. Dr. Eastin played an important role as a board member of the National Farm-City Council for many years. He served as the 35th Chairman of the NFCC from 1992-1994 and through the years, has chaired and served on many committees. Through his efforts, Lexington, Kentucky hosted a NFCC National Conference in the early 1990\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. As chairman of the Rural Urban Committee, he worked to build and maintain collaboration between the Lexington Rotary Club and University of Kentucky to host activities to further National Farm-City Council goals during Farm-City Week every year.<\/p>\n

Charlie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s passion and dedication will continue to inspire those who work on behalf of promoting a greater understanding between rural and urban folk. The award\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tradition continues with the acquisition of the Farm City Council by the Agriculture Council of America. The Agriculture Council of America is privileged to present this award in his honor.<\/p>\n

Follow these links\u00c2\u00a0to view the Guidelines<\/a><\/span> and to submit an application<\/span><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deadline\u00c2\u00a0February 15, 2016 To recognize the contributions of the hundreds of volunteers and leaders in the agriculture, food and fiber communities who are dedicated to increasing public awareness of agriculture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vital role in our society, the Charles Eastin Outstanding Service Award will be presented to an outstanding individual who has contributed as an advocate for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10802\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}