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÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College is hosting NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets Organic Agriculture Specialist Sarah Johnston on Monday, Oct. 1, for a full day of conversation and dialogue on the needs of organic farmers in New York State and what role ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State's new Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture can play, now and in the future, at a WNY Organic Agriculture Roundtable. NYS Sen. Catharine Young is expected to attend.

Five members of the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College NYS College/Post-secondary Skills USA delegation placed in the top 10 at the National SkillsUSA Championship in Kansas City, MO, in late summer. Cristian Cruz, East Amherst, who took first place in the state then continued on to Nationals, was awarded a bronze medal for third place in the nation in masonry.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College will host its third Children's Festival on Saturday, Oct. 6, on West University Street in downtown ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ from 12 noon-5 p.m. 

The third week of classes began to feel a whole lot more like normal for ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State students and the ACES team as one of the dining hall serving lines opened for the first time since last spring's kitchen fire.

Students enrolled in the bakery, production and management program of the Culinary Arts Department at ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College's School of Applied Technology Campus, Wellsville, will hold their annual community bake sale Friday, Oct. 5 AND Saturday, Oct. 6, in the Culinary Arts Building parking lot, Wellsville, from 8 a.m.- 1 p.m. and 11 a.m.-2 p.m., respectively.

÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ State College nursing students welcomed Jon Thomas (JT) Robertson, 11, of Cuba, to one of their classes early in the fall semester to help them kick off the caring project in nursing. The caring project is an outgrowth of the "pay it forward" concept (from the movie by the same name) which promotes the practice of helping others, while expecting nothing in return.