Subscribe to our new Fayette Front Page Daily Newsletter!
You'll receive a daily email with links to the articles
we've posted on the site and on our blogs, a sprinkling of events of note
and maybe even a joke, tip or quote!
Welcome to the
Fayette
Front Page... a better side of news for the citizens of Fayette County!
First to bring you complete daily community news you can use. Enjoy some
of the best news in the county and the state of Georgia!
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as
sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects.
- Henry Melville
The
Fayette Front Page offers a FREE page to all non-profits!
Visit the
Directory to see
more civic groups and non-profits. If you'd like to add your
non-profit organizations information to the site please
send us an email!
Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
UGA Turfgrass Field Day set for Aug. 20 in Griffin
8/7/08 (10:22 p.m.) If caring for turfgrass is your job, there is
an event planned just for you Aug. 20 at the University of Georgia campus in
Griffin.
Rain or shine, registration starts at 8 a.m. for the UGA
Turfgrass Field Day, a day filled with everything you ever wanted to know about
turfgrass and much more.
UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences scientists
will share the latest research-based information on turfgrass varieties grown in
Georgia and how to control diseases, insects and weeds.
Newly released UGA Bermuda grass, seashore paspalum and tall
fescue varieties will also be discussed and seen. The latest industry equipment
will be demonstrated, too.
For Hispanic workers, the morning session from 9 a.m. until noon
will be offered in Spanish.
The field day is certified for Georgia Pesticide License
Credit hours. Certified Crop Advisor credit will also be available as will
credit in pesticide management and crop production.
The fee is $65 and covers the day’s program and lunch. To
register, call (770) 229-3477 or go to the Web site
www.georgiaturf.com.
The field day is sponsored by the UGA CAES, the Georgia
Turfgrass Association, the Georgia Golf Course Superintendents Association, the
Metro Atlanta Landscape and Turf Association and the Georgia Sod Producers
Association.
Seed Newsvine
