News Release
For Immediate Release —December 1, 2008
Local UT Extension Agent Filling Regional Role
Cannon County’s Carla Bush has stepped into a new role with University of Tennessee Extension. The family and consumer sciences agent has been temporarily assigned as UT Extension’s Central Region Program Manager for family and consumer sciences.
Bush will work in Nashville at the Ellington Agricultural Center for the next several months, serving as interim director for regional family and consumer science programs as well as 4-H youth programs. She will oversee programs in 31 counties, including Cannon County. In her position in Cannon County, Bush delivers a wide range of programs for youth and adults focused on improving financial security, wellbeing, and health. Kay Currie, a part-time FCS agent, will help Bush with local programs while Bush is serving in Nashville.
Bush is pleased with the opportunity to expand her horizons, "I look forward to closely interacting with the agents throughout the region and to learning how they execute their programs," she said. "When I return to full service in Cannon County, I expect to bring new ideas." Bush expects the appointment to last around 6 months.
Bush was recently recognized as a 2008 national winner of a Distinguished Service Award in the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) Awards of Excellence Program, and she is an 11-year veteran of UT Extension.
You can learn more about UT Extension programs in Cannon County at http://cannon.tennessee.edu/, by calling (615) 563-2554, or stopping by its Woodbury office at 614 Lehman Street. In addition, UT Extension maintains a range of publications and informational resources at its central Web site, http://utextension.tennessee.edu/.
In Cannon County, and Tennessee’s other 94 counties, UT Extension operates as the off-campus division of the UT Institute of Agriculture. It is a statewide educational organization, funded by federal, state and local governments, that brings research-based information about agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and resource development to the people of Tennessee where they live and work.
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Contact: Patricia McDaniels, UTIA Marketing and Communications,
615-835-4570