Annual
Shipshewana Area
Historical Society
Garage Sale
Disaster Management Expert Speaker
The LaGrange County community
is invited to the Purdue Extension
Board’s Annual Meeting and dinner on
Thursday, February 28, at the Woodruff Grove United Methodist Church in
rural Wolcottville. Registration begins
The Shipshewana Area Historical
at 5:45 with dinner following. Steve
Society (SAHS) is looking for donated
Cain, who specializes in helping comitems for their annual garage sale com- munities prepare for and recover from
ing up on May 10 and 11. Items will be disasters, will be the board’s featured
accepted now. Call Roberta Markley,
guest. The evening’s agenda also in260-768-4596 or Sharon Bowen, 260- cludes a short business meeting during
768-4777. Pick up service is available.
which the annual Purdue Extension
Clothing and books will not be accept- report is distributed to the public, five
ed. All donations will go to the SAHS.
Extension Board members are elected
The next meeting for the Shipshe- to 3-year terms, and two new youth
wana Area Historical Society will be
board members will be introduced.
Monday, March 18 at the Farver School
Cain is the Purdue Extension DiMuseum, across from the post office
saster Communication Specialist and
in downtown Shipshewana. Doors will the Indiana Point of Contact for the
open at 6:00 pm for museum browsExtension Disaster Education Neting. All are welcome to attend this
work (EDEN). He ensures that citizens
meeting. The agenda includes plans for of Indiana have resources to address
upcoming summer activities including Indiana disasters through personal
Shipshewana Reminiscences, which
contact in disaster-affected areas and
will take place on June 14 and 15.
the Purdue/EDEN website. When not
responding to or helping individuals
and communities recover from disaster, Cain focuses on helping communities become more prepared for disaster.
His principle efforts focus on starting
Community Organizations Active in
Disaster (COAD). About one-third of
Indiana counties now have COADs;
there were no COADs in the state before Cain started this project in 2009.
Cain serves as President of the
Indiana Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) and a member
of the board for National VOAD. He
has been a major player in four national, USDA team awards for disaster
education. Since 2002, Cain has served
as EDEN Homeland Security Project
Director. In 2005, he was selected as
an agroterrorism consultant to the
Transportation Research Board of the
National Academies.
To make reservations for the
event, you may call the Purdue Extension office, 260-499-6334 or by e-mail
to [email protected].
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