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Please forward your submissions to the NSAC E-Bulletin to
the newsdesk at (news@nsac.ca).
for inclusion in the next edition, which run on Monday and
Thursday of each week. Remember you can post notices anytime
on the NSAC Forums at http://nsac.ca/forums
EAP Hours of Operation
Due to limited resources within the Employee Assistance Program
(EAP) office, EAP services will be temporarily provided by
Health Canada’s
Crisis and Referral Centre (CRC). The service is available
immediately and will continue until August 31, 2009.
Health
Canada currently provides after hours, weekend and holiday
coverage. During the month of August, the service will be
extended to include daytime coverage. Access to EAP
services
remains the same: contact toll-free 1-800-777-5888 or local
424-7948 (Press 2 from the Main Menu).
Visitor from Florida
Dr. Arnold Schumann, Associate Professor, Citrus Research
and Education Centre, University
of Florida is visiting Dr. Qamar Zaman, Precision Agriculture
Research Chair, NSAC Department of Engineering and the Precision
Agriculture
Research Team this week.
Dr. Schumann conducts research that focuses
on discovering and delivering innovative solutions for
citrus and other agricultural operations to create responsible
and profitable business. Dr. Schumann has been collaborating
with Dr. Zaman on research to develop precision agriculture
technologies in Atlantic Canada for the wild blueberry industry.
Summer OHS Quarterly: Pandemic Preparedness & Business Continuity – Now Online
Dear colleagues,
The latest version of the OHS Quarterly is now available
online at:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/agri/ohs/news.
This edition focuses on H1N1 influenza and how to protect
yourself. We also give a brief overview of business continuity
management. Further information will follow at a later date.
As you know, while my name appears on the articles, I certainly
don't do this alone. I'd like to take a quick moment to thank
some of the folks that helped us get this edition together:
our communications team, especially Susan Mader-Zinck for making
the text sound like English and for being the subject of our
cover photo; Dr.Grant Spearman and Dr. Rob Kerr at Hancock;
Dr. Rob Strang at HPP; Jim Coe, Dennis Kelly and Bruce Rands
at
EMO; our food safety folks (especially Sean O'Toole),
for providing a sounding board and suggestions; Suzy Farmer
managing the printing; Angela Irons
for
distributing; Cheryl Kienzle for
publishing the web version in record time and lastly our executive,
(especially Diane) for supporting the initiative. We hope you
find the information useful and welcome
suggestions.
Have a great summer!
Tim Delaney
OH&S Administrator, Departmental Security Officer
Notice to MacRae Library Users
Due to staff vacations there will be a delay in interlibrary
loan services at the MacRae library from August 1st - 9th,
2009. ILL forms will continue to be available, but requests
submitted during this time will not be processed until August
10, 2009. Novanet Express requests that are submitted through
the library’s catalogue will continue to be processed
during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may
cause.
Regards,
MacRae Library Interlibrary Loan staff
Internet Outage
Eastlink is requesting an outage of
NSAC's internet connection.
This
is a part of an ongoing Province wide Eastlink network upgrade.
Date of work: Aug 5, 2009
Time of work: 02:01 - 05:00 a.m.
The outage will occur in the early morning hours of Wednesday
August 5, 2009 and will last 20 minutes. Internet
access will be interrupted, as well as access to the
NSAC website and email from off campus.
Community Garden Potluck
The NSAC Community Garden is having a potluck
on August 7, at 4:30p.m. at the garden (located behind the
library).
To learn more click here.
Farewell
Sheila Ferguson’s Retirement
After 34 years with the Department of Agriculture, Sheila Ferguson is retiring at the end of August. Sheila is known to many in the department, university and industry for her tireless work providing top notch images to all who ask.
Sheila will be using up her hard-earned vacation until the end of August, but the Marketing Services Division is planning a retirement send-off for Sheila on Thursday, September 10th, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall. Please stop by for some refreshments and to wish Sheila well!
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