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The International Farm Youth Exchange Program recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA and IFYE (iffy) will work together to promote cultural understanding between the U.S. and overseas countries. The MOU commends IFYE for its past and continuing contribution to international cultural understanding of rural areas across the world. Victoria Warren is President of IFYE. She says the MOU also means the USDA and her group will work together to continue the IFYE mission into the future. The IFYE program sends young adults 19 and over to farms and rural areas in other countries and helps them learn to understand different cultures and ways of doing things. Warren says the experience isn’t just for young adults in rural America either…tape Cut #2 :29 OC…”US ...
Exploring Hidden Falls Park in St. Paul
Hidden Falls Park is one of the nicer places I've discovered so far while living in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. It's a beautiful park with the most amazing hidden falls at the end of a trail. Plus, the walk to get to the falls isn't an especially steep trail too, so just about anyone can enjoy it. The park itself dates all the way back to 1887. Horace Cleveland, a nationally-known landscape architect and park planner, selected the current site as one of four major park sites for the city of St Paul. Other than using a portion of the park area as a tree nursery, the city didn't make any improvements to it until 1936-1937. At that point, the WPA carried out an extensive improvement program on the site, which I think was a home run in every way. The small, spring-fed waterfall gives the park its name. The park reached its current form in the 1960s, when work began on the parks four primary use areas. Those areas include what's called the primitive...