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Welcome to the January 2007 issue of KNN’s email newsletter. Please visit our web site at www.kansasnutritionnetwork.org We are always interested in how our partners are “partnering” to improve nutrition and physical activity education throughout Kansas.
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Upcoming Meetings:

January 19, 2007 Topeka at the ClubHouse Inn. This is a new date! The topic will be on Commodity Foods. We will have two speakers present on commodity foods and we will hear about the new 5 A Day "brand". The meeting will be from 10am - 2pm. Please let us know if you will be attending. RSVP sprice@ksu.edu

March 9, 2007 Manhattan. Location to be announced. Barbara LaClair will give an update on the Kansas Food Security Task Force.

May 8-9, 2007 KNN will meet in partnership with the KACAP Conference on Poverty in Topeka.

Clarence Carter, deputy administrator for Family Nutrition Programs with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, presented a bonus award of $1,590,582 to Kansas Lt. Gov. John Moore and the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). The performance bonus recognizes the state for having one of the nation’s lowest payment error rates in administering its Food Stamp Program. http://cjonline.com/stories/121206/leg_bonus.shtml

The October issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is now available at www.cdc.gov/pcd, where you will find downloadable articles and information on PCD.

A Diet Coke instead of a multivitamin? Coca-Cola Co. will launch fortified Diet Coke Plus in spring 2007. http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/08/news/companies/coke/index.htm

Participation in the national School Breakfast Program continues its steady increase, according to the Food Research and Action Center’s School Breakfast Scorecard 2006. The program had a record 7.7 million low-income children receiving free and reduced-price breakfast on an average day during the 2005-2006 school year. There are now 44.6 low-income children receiving breakfast for every 100 eating lunch. http://www.frac.org/Press_Release/12.07.06.html.