Page 6 – April 16-20, 2012
Community News
The Putnam Standard
Putnam Farmer’s Market to open for the 2012 season on May 1 STAFF REPORT HURRICANE – The Putnam Farmer's Market will open for the 2012 season on Tuesday, May 1, beginning at 3:30 p.m. at Hurricane City Park next to the water reservoir. The market has reduced the number of days it will operate this year to Tuesdays and Satur-
days. The market will be open on Tuesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Since the market opened in 2009, hundreds of people have stopped by each month to shop, enjoy the entertainment and special activities, and to social-
ize. Despite fickle weather during the 2011 spring and summer growing seasons, sales at last year’s market improved over previous years. The market won first place in West Virginia in the 2011 America’s Favorite Farmers Market Contest sponsored by America’s Farmland Trust.
Long-range goals include improving the quantity, selection and diversity of produce offered. Vendor applications are still being accepted and more information may be found on the market’s website at www.putnamfarmersmarket.weebly.com. Information can also be found on the Farmers’ Market Face-
book page at www.facebook.com/putnamfarmersmarket. The market may be contacted by mail at: Putnam Farmers' Market, P.O. Box 351, Hurricane, WV 25526; by phone at (304) 300-8995; or by email at Putnam_Farmers_Market@mail.co m.
Journalism professor to speak at annual Woodson banquet HUNTINGTON – Marshall University Prof. Burnis Morris, the Carter G. Woodson Professor in the MU School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will be the keynote speaker at the 20th annual Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation, Inc., fundraising banquet Saturday, April 21. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. in Room BE5 on the lower level of the Memorial Student Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus. Proceeds will help fund a scholarship endowment to support outstanding Marshall University students, as well as the purchase
of materials on black culture and history. Morris, the Carter G. Woodson Professor at Marshall since 2003, recently finished a year as the John Deaver Drinko Academy Fellow at Marshall. During that time, he studied Woodson’s career and relationship with the African American press from 1915 to 1950 – a period that began with Woodson’s founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and ended with his death. Morris received a West Virginia Humanities Council fellowship in 2011 for his study of Woodson.
He has served as head of the Journalism Division at Marshall since 2006. He is a member of the Marshall University Faculty Senate and its Executive Committee, chair of the Journalism and Mass Communications Diversity Committee and former chair of the Faculty Senate’s Student Conduct and Welfare Committee. Morris, a native of Laurel, Miss., came to Marshall from the University of Mississippi. He was the first Samuel S. Talbert Lecturer, a special honor in memory of the second chair of the Department of Journalism
who died while Morris was a student in his class in the 1970s. Morris has led a national effort to improve news coverage of taxexempt institutions. He is the author of “Nonprofit News Coverage: A Guide for Journalists.” Music for the banquet will be provided by and Michael Sidoti and local talent. Tickets for the event are available for a donation of $30. Corporate tables also are available. To purchase tickets or for more information, contact Newatha Myers, foundation president, at
740-894-5772; Loretta Hagler, banquet chairwoman, at 304525-5651; or Karen Nance, secretary, at 304-736-1655. The Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation is named in honor of Carter G. Woodson, who was a graduate of Douglass High School in Huntington and went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. Woodson, who is widely known as the “father of African American history,” founded the Association for the study of Negro Life and History in 1915. He also started the influential “Journal of Negro History” in 1916.