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USDA Recovery Act Funding Improves Water Quality in a Nebraska Community

May 24, 2010 Vicki Schurman, USDA Public Information Coordinator

USDA Rural Development Nebraska State Director Maxine Moul, staff and the residents of Stromsburg celebrated the 40th anniversary of Earth Day recently with the announcement of more than $2.2 million in planned improvements to the City's municipal water system. The improvements will bring the system...

Initiatives

Rain, Snow, and Sleet Didn’t Stop Kids at USDA Utah Event

May 11, 2010

Submitted by Dave Conine, USDA Rural Development State Director and Donna Birk, PIC Weather was cold in late April in Utah when Santaquin City celebrated Earth Day with USDA Rural Development. Santaquin City officials were shivering with excitement to receive a $7 million plus loan and grant...

Rural

Whippoorwill Hollow Organic Farm and NRCS Conservation Assistance

May 06, 2010

Mary Ann McQuinn, Georgia NRCS NRCS Regional Assistant Chief Leonard Jordan, NRCS Georgia State Conservationist James E. Tillman, Sr., and others including Alice Rolls, the Executive Director of Georgia Organics toured Whippoorwill Hollow Farm with certified organic farmer Andy Byrd. The group...

Conservation

Texas Colonias to get First Time Sewer Services Thanks to USDA

April 29, 2010

Written by Gayle Cargo, Public Information Coordinator Texas USDA Rural Development State Director, Paco Valentin, Pearsall Mayor Ray Martinez and other county officials celebrated Earth Day, April 22 nd, with a $4,765,000 Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant funding presentation to the city of...

Rural

Safe Water No Longer a Pipe Dream

April 28, 2010

By Joan Messina, Public Information Coordinator USDA Rural Development celebrated a magnificent Earth Day in the bright spring sunshine at Vandalia Lake in Fayette County, Illinois, last Thursday. The clouds rolled away just hours before we joined Fayette Water Company (FWC) to mark the advent of...

Conservation Rural

USDA Rural Development Youths in Washington State Present Tree to City of Westport on Earth Day

April 27, 2010

Story by Student Reporter Jessi Southworth

Conservation Rural

USDA Rural Development-Kansas Celebrates Earth Day With The City of Chetopa

April 26, 2010

By Harold Alford, Public Information Coordinator, Kansas Last week as we celebrated the anniversary of Earth Day, we remembered that it is critical that we protect our environment for future generations. In each of the past 40 years, communities and individuals throughout our Nation have taken one...

Initiatives Conservation Rural

Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager Observes Earth Day by Announcing Water System Funding in Rural Colorado

April 23, 2010

Written by Amy Mund, Public Information Coordinator USDA Rural Development-Colorado

Rural

USDA Rural Development celebrates Earth Day in Kentucky with a Tree Planting Ceremony and Funding Announcement for a Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade

April 23, 2010

By Katherine Belcher , USDA Rural Development Public Information Coordinator

Conservation Rural

Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager Observes Earth Day by Announcing Water System Funding in Rural Colorado

April 23, 2010

Written by Amy Mund, Public Information Coordinator USDA Rural Development-Colorado

Rural
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