NEWS

> Dr. Fallahi Received the Governor's Award of Excellence in Agriculture, Technical and Discovery category on Feburary 12 2008

>Pomology Fruit Field Day for 2008 will be held on Friday Sept 12, at 8:30am untill 1:00 pm.Parma Research and Extension Center. Open to Public. Call 208-722-6701 ext 228 for information.

General Table Grape metting wil be held on Saturday Octobe 4, 2008 in Nampa Idaho.

Classes on table grape crop mangement will be offered in the near future. Please check the Idaho Table Grape Association website for information

Dr. Essie Fallahi presented several workshops on modern fruit production at the University of Abu Ali in Hamdan and University of Zanjan and Ministry of Agriculture. Prefessor Fallahi received Awards of Appreciation from these institutions in March 2008.

ART & POETRY

Art is the soul of life and poetry is an important part of the art. Poetry is an integral part of the Persian culture. In this section, I will present a few pieces from the poems that have written over the years. Theses pieces are selections from two volumes of poem collections (Divans) that I have been writing since I was 8 years old. Obviously, because the difficulty in converting Persian fonts into a word processing system to be universally readable, I had to convert them into JPG format. Thus, these pieces can be viewed under picture gallery. I hope you like them.

> Poetry