Fannin County Fair

 The senior member of the board of directors, Leon Bowman, is staffing the Fannin Soil and Water Conservation District’s fair booth. Each director took his turn in helping to operate the booth and get the conservation message out to the public. Alex Page, Bear Reed and Mary Jane Godwin, of the Fannin SWCD along with Randy Moore, NRCS, District Conservationist was in charge of getting the booth set up and helped staff it. Everyone enjoyed the new location for the fair and thought that the fair was a great success.

 A big thank you goes to Dusty Underwood and Eddie Noga for supplying the backdrop, blinds and decoys for the booth and for their help in setting up.

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This pre school class thought the booth was the best booth at the fair. They enjoyed the mounted deer and duck, the decoys and the duck blind.

DIRECTORS ATTEND THE ANNUAL STATE DIRECTORS MEETING

 Over 850 conservation leaders met in Corpus Christi on October 24-26, 2005 to attend the 65th Annual State Meeting of Texas Soil and Water Conservation District Directors. This meeting brought together District Directors from around the state representing the 217 Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Texas. These locally elected officials met with other state elected officials, state, and federal agencies to discuss various issues dealing with soil and water conservation on privately owned farms and ranches in Texas.

 Representing the Fannin Soil and Water Conservation District was Carroll and Chloe Jones, Billy and Peggy Partridge, David and Judy Keene and Mary Jane Godwin.  Joe and Sandra Ward also attended the annual meeting. Joe is a board member of the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board.

 Local Soil and Water Districts are designed to deliver a local program, based on local needs, that best conserves and promotes the wise and judicious use of our renewable natural resources. They work to bring about the widespread understanding of the need for soil and water conservation. In addition, they work to galvanize public and private organizations and agencies into a united front to combat soil and water erosion and to enhance water quality and quantity in the state. Through a Memorandum of Agreement with USDA, the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) works closely with and provides technical assistance to soil and water conservation districts.

 The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board is the lead agency in Texas responsible for planning, implementing, and managing programs and practices for abating and prevention of agricultural and silvicultural nonpoint source pollution. In carrying out this mandate, the TSSWCB works shoulder-to shoulder with the state’s 217 Soil and Water Conservation Districts.