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CWA Statewide Meeting

September 8^{th -} 10^th, 2023

Greetings all,

Lots in the works getting ready for CWA's September SWM and BBQ. Our 46-year partnership with Fresno State's Ag One is hosting a BBQ, a live auction, CWA's commodity store, and a silent auction. This is CWA's major fundraising event. We'll be at the Panoche Creek River Ranch, a spectacular location, hoping for a succe$$ful day.  Hope all chapters are getting their baskets packet, gathering silent auction items and getting commodity donations ready to go!  

September is also the meeting where the ballot for the 2024 slate of elected state officers is presented. CWA's election process is noted in the 2320 September Compass (available below). Thank you to the Nominating Committee and chairperson, Marit Arant, for their work.  

Our bylaws and OPP are in need of more than 'red line' edits. There are areas that are not in compliance with current nonprofit laws, or up to date with social media advances, in some cases contradictory and they need to be redone.  In order to bring CWA up to date, at the September SWM we will be considering and voting on engaging an attorney specializing in nonprofit organization bylaws, processes, and procedures.  

P.S. Click here for the September SWM agenda and Meeting Norms



P.P.S. The September Compass is here! Your copy should arrive in your mailbox soon. Thanks to all contributors to this issue. Click here to view a digital copy!

Cheers,

The 46^th CWA/Ag Boosters BBQ event, our major fundraiser, will be held on September 8-10, 2023, at Panoche Creek Ranch.   The CWA meeting will be folded into the weekend's activities. Be thinking of a silent auction items or themed basket creations for the CWA Store!

Lodging

Springhill Suites Fresno 

6844 N. Fresno Street 

Fresno, CA 93710 

(559) 431-0004  

Room Rate = $159 + taxes and fees 

Cut off on room rate is 30 days before

Draft Schedule

Friday, 9/8/2023, afternoon: Packaging auction items

Saturday, 9/9/2023, morning: Packaging auction items

SWM is on September 9, 2023 

Exec Committee Meeting, 10:30 – noon 

SWM Registration and Lunch at Noon 

SWM Meeting, 1 to 5pm 

Meeting location:

Fresno County Farm Bureau Office

1274 W. Hedges Ave. 

Fresno, CA 93728 



Sunday, 9/10/2023,  meet at hotel packaging room at 7 am to load the U-Haul, to take everything for Country Store out to Panoche Creek.  Set up for the event. Breakdown and cleanup after the event, usually until 8pm. 

Featured Guest Speaker

Dr. Rolston St. Hilaire received his doctoral degree from Iowa State and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Puerto Rico. He spent 22 years at New Mexico State University where he taught classes related to environmental plant biology and ornamental and landscape horticulture. His research focused on advanced sensing techniques in cropping systems, urban landscape water conservation, plant molecular ecophysiology, and urban land cover mapping. St. Hilaire was named a Regents Professor, and served as the Head of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Extension Plant Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He became the ninth Dean of the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology at California State University, Fresno on September 15, 2022. As Dean, St. Hilaire provides leadership to the Jordan College’s six academic departments, four research centers and institutes, and 18 farm enterprises.

Celebrating our Chapters

One of CWA's projects this summer is to connect with each chapter. Debra Stroschein, CWA President elect, will be visiting chapters and gathering information to showcase each chapter's accomplishments. As we all learn about what's happening in other chapters, we benefit from sharing each other's successes!

We will be utilizing the information for a number of projects: updating the CWA biennial report, sharing in the weekly PNL, posting on the website and 

promoting CWA chapter's accomplishments via PR opportunities.  

We are asking each chapter 5 questions: 

  1. What is your signature event?

   2. Scholarships--What kind of scholarships do you give out (only agriculture related majors)?  Do you have memorial scholarships?  Do you have any outstanding past recipients? 

   3.  Do you have any special events to build membership? 

   4.  History perspective – Do you have any charter members?  If so, who are they?  Do you have any past state presidents in your chapter?  If so, who are they?  Get pictures of them. 

   5. What is unique about your chapter and what contributes to its longevity?  

   Be sure to include pictures!

Check out the newly added chapter Sacramento Valley!