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AP Reports on "Provider Pals" The Associated Press sent out a major profile of Bruce Vincent's "Provider Pals" project over the wires, in a lengthy feature datelined September 13. Vincent, formerly a Montana logger (and charter honoree of FRA's National Forestry Activist Award in 1990) is now a public relations specialist for the natural resource industries. Vincent profiles the formation of the project in 1998, when he first felt a need to bring more of a human element to the classroom presentations he was making about the place resource extraction plays in families' everyday lives. "Provide Pals" was the solution: arranging to bring a series of real live natural resource professionals -- loggers, fishers, ranchers, farmers, miners -- into urban classrooms to talk about and even demonstrate their crafts and to maintain a connection (generally by e-mail) in the future. AP reports: "The kids panned for gold, learned to rope and asked all sorts of questions: Have you ever been chased by a bear? What kind of chain saw do you run? How could I do that job?" AP also reports: "This year, Provider Pals is expanding to a national program. Students in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, New York, Toronto and Washington also will have a chance to be a part of a cultural exchange" -- and mentions the recent $1.5 million grant Ford Motor has provided to the program over the next three years. Back to "News" Forest Resources Association
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