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It’s Tree Planting Time in Oklahoma

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Winter is a great time to plant trees in Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is ready to help you help the Oklahoma landscape.

Landowners can acquire wildlife habitat packs of tree seedlings to enhance your property to deer, songbirds, turkey, quail and other indigenous wildlife.

You can even use the trees as windbreaks, timber production, water quality protection, erosion control or firewood plantings and even Christmas tree production.

Oklahoma’s seedling planting season runs December through April. You can find out where to get these packets at the Forestry website or by calling 1-800=517-FOREST.

www.forestry.ok.gov

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Wind School

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Interested in training to work on wind turbines?

At the Canadian Valley Technology Center in El Reno, Oklahoma you can do just that.

Orientation is brutal though.

Their new wind energy training program is a two-year program designed to teach maintenance and servicing of wind turbines. It’s not for the faint of heart though.

During orientation you have to climb a 200 foot plus tower.

The CVTC mentions that not everyone that enters the class finishes. The height gets them.

The next session starts in March.

Do you have what it takes?

You can read more about the wind tech program at CVTC’s website.

wind-turbine

wind-turbine

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Nursing School

Monday, January 25th, 2010

A relative of mine is considering nursing school. GREAT! A nurse in the family.

Did you know that there are waiting lists to get into nursing school?

It was suggested that she might consider other options in the medical industry, options that would let her study health so that she could still go into nursing when the opportunity presents itself.

There are lots of other health related fields. She could train in blood banking, become a dental hygienist or a lab tech, she could even go to medical assistant training school, all keeping her foot in the medical field. It would even give her a chance to explore other fields.

Whatever she decides to do, I’m sure she’ll be great at it. She’s very people oriented. Come to think of it, she’ll make a great nurse…

nurse

nurse

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