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The the President of CSN and his cabinet for their approval. So, fingers
crossed, we are looking at the Fall of 2024 academic school year
for the first classes to begin.
Editor’s Be sure to watch the social media postings and your emails for a

Corner few events planned this summer. The Southern Chapter has an
upcoming outing at the Avaitors ballpark as well as a upcoming
Railroad Seminar in July. The Lahontan Chapter has their annual
golf tournament in July as well. And lastly the YSN will have having
By: Trent J. Keenan, PLS
their 2 annual summer camp out. This year they will be learning
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how to perform and solar observation? When is the last time you
Public Outreach Edition! did that? How many of us have never done one? This trip is open
to everyone, not just YSN members, so if your looking for a great
By the time you read this edition, 2022 is almost half over already!
summer trip, please join us this year!
It has been a bustling second quarter, and one of the many
highlights was finally getting back together at the Western Lastly, one of the great highlights from the conference this year for
me was being awarded the Von Schimt award. I was completely
Regional Conference! It was great to see everyone so energized shocked to be awarded this award. It’s only been award 3 other
and happy to be back. I hope we can continue to build on this times and to be in the same compnay as Steve Parrish, Marty
energy and bring everyone back together at our local chapter Crook and Carl C. De. Baca with all of their contributions to the
meetings and maybe even some school presentations? After all,
this is the Public Outreach edition! profession is truly and honor! I do not do anything in life for an
award, I only do things to better those around me or for the
profession as a whole, but this is still a great honor. Thank you to
Speaking of energy, one of the many highlights for me at the everyone for the support throughout all these years I have been
conference was being able to moderate all the roundtable apart of our association!
discussions. We had a diverse selection of topics this year,
from Professional Practices and State Association updates to Well, enough talk, let’s look at what else is in store for this edition.
Threats to Licensure and Public Outreach, as well as a Workforce
Development discussion that rolled over into a presentation/ As mentioned above, you will see a few articles based on the
discussion with Aaron Smith on the Challenges of the Workforce Roundtable discussions, and the first one you will see is an article
Shortage. There were so many great discussions. I took the
opportunity to record all of the conversations and then take those I wrote based on the conversations we had over Public Outreach.
This article will hopefully find a few examples of how we can get
recordings and turn them into a few articles you will see in this ourselves out in the public eye and bring awareness to this great
edition and a few editions to come. We must ignite the passion profession. At the end of the article, I provide a quick road map on
and energy to get boots on the ground and back presenting in the how we can navigate the schools from Elementary School through
classrooms! A lot of work is needed, and the calendar is running
out of pages quickly! High School. I am working on creating a large poster for this road
map that we can print and leave with the teachers or counselors
we are meeting with.
Another highlight from this second quarter was seeing Mr. Steve
Parrish set the first-ever “Living Final Point” on the campus of I also have another article based on our roundtable conversations
Great Basin College in Elko, NV. Typically, a final point monument is
set after a surveyor passes. Steve has set hundreds, maybe even for Workforce Development. In this article, I try to help lay the
groundwork for how we can help grow our current and future
thousands of monuments, and it was only fitting that Steve set his staff by providing a few examples of programs that are working
own Final Point (one last point) and make it a party rather than a for other firms in the industry. We have to understand that there
eulogy! And how fitting that the monument was set on the 237th is a significant difference between Outreach and Workforce
Anniversary of The Land Ordinance of 1785, which was adopted by
the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. Development, and I hope these two articles help highlight those
differences.
There were about 35+ of us who attended the dedication of the
final point and then went to dinner at the Star in Elko. And what My last article in this edition also highlights the conversation on
is a dinner at the Star without a famous Pecan Punch toast! We Threats to Licensure. At the roundtable, we discussed a few of
had such a great time reminiscing about Steve’s career. Be sure to
check out the Facebook post on the NALS page if you would like to the most important topics currently happening in the profession.
So give it a read and let me know what other issues we should be
leave Steve a comment, and also be on the lookout for a Bernsten discussing!
International, Inc. Blog coming to your email in the next few weeks,
it will be the same article written by Emily Pierce. As always, please send in your comments or articles so that what

One more update I can provide a little more information on is we print is what you want to read! Articles for the next edition are
due on August 1 please.
,
that CSN is still moving forward with their approvals to create
the bachelor’s degree program. There was supposed to be a Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or
meeting with Dr. Sims and his leadership last month, but it was industry in which he is engaged. No man has the moral right to
postponed at the last second because one of the staff tested
positive for Covid (yes, it’s still going around!). The good news is withhold his support from an organization that is striving to improve
the conditions within his sphere! – Theodore Roosevelt
it has been rescheduled for June 27, and once Dr. Sims has his
Provost’s approval of the program, then Dr. Sims can present it to
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