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AACOG REGION
Volume 7, Issue 8
August 2005
AACOG
Contact Information
8700 Tesoro, Suite 700
San Antonio, TX 78217
(210) 362-5200
Fax: (210) 225-5937
mail@aacog.com
www.aacog.com
2005 Chairman
Hon. Tommy Adkisson
Commissioner
Bexar County
2005 Vice-Chairman
Hon. Richard Evans
County Judge
Bandera County
Executive Director
Al J. Notzon III
anotzon@aacog.com
Deputy Executive Director
Gloria C. Arriaga
garriaga@aacog.com
Deputy
Director
Dean Danos
ddanos@aacog.com
Serving the Counties
of:
Atascosa
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Bandera
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Bexar
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Comal
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Frio
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Gillespie
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Guadalupe
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Karnes
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Kendall
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Kerr
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Medina
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Wilson
AUGUST 2005
EVENT CALENDAR
This
is an excerpt only, to view entire calendar of events, visit
www.aacog.com/calendar.
Elders' Advocacy Network Education Workshop
Monday, August 1, 2005
A Silent Crime: Dating and Family Violence at School
Thursday, August 4 &
Monday, August 15, 2005
8th Annual Texas Transportation Summit
Tuesday, August 9 -
Friday, August 12, 2005
Crimes Against Children
Conference
Monday, August 15 -
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Grant Writing USA Workshop
Thursday, August 18 -
Friday, August 19, 2005
Adult Education and Workforce: Mapping a Strategy
Friday, August 19-
Saturday, August 20, 2005
AACOG Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday,
August 24, 2005
117th Gillespie County Fair
Thursday, August 25, -
Sunday, August 28, 2005
Public Funds Investment Act Workshop
Monday, August 29 -
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Cash Handling Seminar
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
ADDITIONAL
LINKS:
AACOG Board of Directors
AACOG Employment
Air
Quality News
Elders' Advocacy Network
Frequently Asked Questions
General
Information
August Aging Events
Membership
Kit
Monthly Housing News
Region TV Show
Transportation News
What's new on AACOG
site!
Back Issues of
AACOG Region
AACOG Home
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 AACOG
invites Campus
Law Enforcement and Security Officers, Campus
Administrators, and Campus Counselors to
attend a seminar tailored specifically for school campus
professionals who work with the criminal justice and law
enforcement systems. This seminar will provide
information about Texas laws and methods of intervention
with regard to domestic and dating violence on campus.
The training will take place on two dates: Thursday,
August 4, 2005, from 8:00 a.m. until noon, and Monday,
August 15, 2005, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The
training will be held in the AACOG Board Room,
8700 Tesoro Drive, Suite 100, San Antonio.
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Silent Crime Training
Point of Contact: Paulina
Brasuell |
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 Crisis Response Team School Intervention Training was
conducted at AACOG and Camp Bullis on July 11-14, 2005.
Counties represented were: Atascosa, Bexar, Frio,
Guadalupe, Kendall, Kerr, Medina and Wilson. Mr. Hanan
Yadin, who formerly served as
the designer of the Counter Terrorism/ Crisis Response
Team School Intervention Program in Israel, conducted the
training. The program
included three days of tactical training for first
responders intended to prepare each graduate to bring
these vital skills back to their respective counties to
share with fellow officers. The fourth day focused on
providing school administrators and law enforcement
officials in-depth information on how to support and
promote school safety and security, as well as to
familiarize them with the training their officers
received. This is one of the first steps in the goal of
the AACOG Criminal Justice Division to better prepare our
region to prevent, contain, and recover from terrorist
acts. The AACOG Criminal Justice Division has set, as a
major priority, the goal of seeking new and innovative ways
to improve the safety and security of our regions'
children.
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School Intervention Training
Point of Contact: Jennifer
Forbes |
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AACOG to host
Grant Writing USA Workshop
in San Antonio |
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The Alamo
Area Council of Governments, in partnership with Grant
Writing USA, will present a
two-day grant writing workshop in San Antonio, August
18-19, 2005. All government and nonprofit professionals
are welcome to attend. The workshop will be held in
the AACOG Board Room,
8700 Tesoro Drive,
Suite 100, San Antonio.
Grant
Writing USA delivers nationwide training programs and
workshops that dramatically enhance performance in the
areas of grant writing, national foundation and government
grant maker research and relations, program planning, and
personal and organizational excellence. Each element plays
an important role in grant writing success and all are
covered in this, Grant Writing USA's signature, two-day
workshop. More than 4,500 government and nonprofit
agencies across America now turn to Grant Writing USA for
grants training.
Click here for
more information.
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Grant Writing USA Workshop
Point of Contact: Paulina
Brasuell |
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ORCA Presents Two New Small Business
Lending Tools for Rural Communities and Nonprofit Organizations |
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Microenterprise Revolving Loan Fund
Funding will be awarded to non-entitlement communities in
partnership with nonprofit organizations providing lending and
training opportunities to microenterprises. A
microenterprise is a for-profit business with 5 or fewer
employees, one of whom owns the business.
Small
Business Loan Fund
Funding will be awarded to non-entitlement communities
seeking to finance a specific small business within its
community. A small business is a for-profit business with
less than 100 employees.
Click here
to find out more.
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ORCA
Point of
Contact: Heather
Lagrone, ORCA |
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Alamo Clean Air Partnership Welcomes H-E-B |
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 In
the realm of environmental leaders, H-E-B is a company of
"firsts". H-E-B became the first retail company to receive
the Texas Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence and the
first recipient of the "Event Sponsor of the Year" awarded by
the Keep Midland Beautiful Program. H-E-B was a founding
partner of the Clean Texas, Cleaner World waste reduction
program and was the only Texas fleet invited to be a charter
member of the EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership.
H-E-B
continues its first place tradition by becoming the first
company in the San Antonio region to join the Alamo Clean Air
Partnership. The organization's long history of support
for community and environmental programs establishes H-E-B as a
leader. We're proud to announce yet another first-place
achievement by this Texas-based company.
For more
information about H-E-B's environmental programs,
click here. To
find out more about becoming a Alamo Clean Air Partner,
click
here.
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Alamo
Clean Air Partnership
Point of
Contact: Brenda
Williams |
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Protect the
Environment and
Get a Tax Deduction Too! |
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If you are the original owner of a qualifying hybrid vehicle–one
that combines an electric motor with a gasoline-powered engine–you may be eligible to claim a one-time Clean Fuel tax deduction
on your federal income tax return. The deduction amount is
limited to $2,000 for cars first put into use in 2004 and 2005.
The deduction will be limited to $500 for vehicles placed in
service in 2006 and no deduction will be allowed after that year.
Read article...
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Tax Tip
Point of Contact:
Martha Matthews, IRS |
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San Antonio & Miami AAAs Join Hispanic
Fire Safety Training Plan |
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Fire safety and fall prevention are the topics of a
Train-the-Trainer program that the Bexar Area Agency on Aging in
San Antonio has been hard at work on. Realizing that the lack of
fire safety materials in Spanish leaves Hispanic seniors
especially vulnerable, the AAA agreed to become one of three pilot
sites that are developing a new approach to fire safety education
for older Hispanics, their families, and the professionals who
work with them.
Read article...
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Fire Safety Training Plan
Point of Contact:
Nick Monreal |
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Air Quality
Watch |
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 Those
concerned with air quality in the region continue to watch the
readings on local ground-level ozone monitors. What is
ground-level ozone?
Ground-level
ozone is formed through
chemical reactions between natural and man-made emissions
of volatile
organic
compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen
oxides (NOx) in the presence of sunlight. These gaseous compounds
mix in the air, and when they interact with sunlight, ground-level
ozone is formed.
Read article...
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Air Quality Watch
Point of Contact:
Peter Bella |
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