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<p dir="ltr">Sheri, this looks great!</p>
<div class="quote">On Feb 17, 2016 8:32 AM, STUART Sheri * OPRD <Sheri.Stuart@oregon.gov> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Hello all! I sat in on the first webinar in this series on rural issues. It was excellent! There are more coming up over the next few months. If you are
interested, you can still register until Feb 19 – see item 4 below. A copy of the ppt and a recording from the first series is available. Regards, Sheri</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:windowtext"> Benjamin Winchester [mailto:benw@umn.edu]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Benjamin Winchester<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Great Plains webinar update</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January 21, 2016</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you for attending the first part of the Great Plains: In Focus webinar series held on January 13. We have a few things to share with you.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
<b>copy of the powerpoint </b>(in pdf) can be downloaded here. It can be viewed online or click the Download button in the top-middle to save to your computer.</span></p>
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</span></span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1155CC"><a href="http://z.umn.edu/greatplainspdf">http://z.umn.edu/greatplainspdf</a></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A
<b>recording of the first webinar <i>“Rewriting the Rural Narrative”</i></b> can be found here. Note: if you are having problems viewing the webinar or the recording please try in Internet Explorer - there’s no requirement to download a plugin for that browser.</span></p>
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<a href="http://z.umn.edu/greatplainsrecording"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1155CC">http://z.umn.edu/greatplainsrecording</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please take just a few minutes and
<b>complete our evaluation</b>.</span></p>
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<a href="http://z.umn.edu/greatplainsevaluation"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1155CC">http://z.umn.edu/greatplainsevaluation</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registration is open again
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">through February 19, please refer anyone you think would benefit from this series. After this date, registration will be closed permanently..</span></p>
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<a href="http://z.umn.edu/greatplainswebinar"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1155CC">http://z.umn.edu/greatplainswebinar</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Requests for your data. If you would like to
<b>obtain data for your county</b>, we will have a form for you to complete. The first opportunity for this request will be made
</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"A rial","serif"">following the next webinar</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> on rural migration.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hold the next date, February 24, 12pm-1pm for the
<b>Brain Gain of the Newcomers to Rural America</b> webinar. We’ll send you a link to join a few days before the event.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.</span></p>
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<pre>Benjamin S. Winchester</pre>
<pre>Senior Research Fellow</pre>
<pre>Extension Center for Community Vitality</pre>
<pre>University of Minnesota</pre>
<pre>(320) 589-5033</pre>
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<pre><a href="http://www.extension.umn.edu/Community/">http://www.extension.umn.edu/Community/</a></pre>
<pre><a href="http://www.extension.umn.edu/Community/brain-gain">http://www.extension.umn.edu/Community/brain-gain</a></pre>
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