The following is forwarded on behalf of Mel Kaufman:
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March 20/2024
Hi Everyone,
Thankyou everyone for your input in making this happen for me here at the POINT. The right connections were made and Mike from ABELL Pest Control stopped by and I toured him around the buildings pointing out all the clipboards listing mouse sittings and the spot to sign as visited on at least one of the various sites and clipboards and the Mandatory Whiteboard sign in visit for every visit. He was nice and very diligent and understood our position of need for him and I asked him to setup a visit every week to take future care of our problem areas from our perspective (Clipboard Documented Sittings) and his perspective!
Communication and understanding go hand in hand and I view this as a Successful Visit!
He notified me with all the findings and corrections (listed in UPDATES below) that he made and we are good for a week! We both smiled and parted on good terms!
UPDATES! March 20/2024
All Traps in the Seed Storage, seed processing, pre-seed processing, Clipper room and Drying room were empty or near empty of control pellets and were cleaned and filled and repositioned. The chances of seeing dead and near dead mice will be in effect now so don't be alarmed but be vigilant in recording your sittings on the clipboards and please let me know if you need me (Mel Kaufman) to remove the dead mice. I have no fear doing this and will wear proper PPE and happy to help you out with this anytime as I am part of the Safety Group here as well now!
The Plant Science Field Station faired very well with no mice activity accounted for by both ABELL Pest Control and stations where checked and replacement of fresh Control Pellets were accomplished! I will setup a clipboard to the Left of the Whiteboard in the hallway to the left of the lunchroom doorway for recording of Mouse sittings and ABELL Pest Control Viewing and signage of a visit option as well to cover all aspects of this task force in place.
I will keep vigilant on their performance here and be available to assist them when restrictions come in effect April 1/2024 and the 15 minute time allowances come into play.
With thanks,
(Mel) Melvin Kaufman
University of Manitoba
Plant Science Agricultural
Biological Technician 3
The Point - Shop Lead/Maintenance and Grounds
Cover Crop Manager
Email: Melvin.Kaufman(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Melvin.Kaufman@umanitoba.ca>
Text: +1-204-648-7570
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From: Rob Duncan
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 8:54 AM
To: Bev Godard
Cc: Mel Kaufman; Rob Gulden; Doug Cattani
Subject: Re: Mice at the Point and need for better understanding on how to deal with ABELL Pest control
Thank you for your time on this Mel,
And thanks Bev. Somehow Abell has dropped the ball on this again.
Rob
On Mar 20, 2024, at 8:34 AM, Bev Godard <Bev.Godard(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Bev.Godard@umanitoba.ca>> wrote:
Good morning Mel,
I will contact Physical Plant, who will contact Abell Pest Control.
I have already requested weekly maintenance of pest control on a weekly basis for the mouse house.
I am told they are voles, not mice, however, they carry the same diseases, so I am not sure why the need to differentiate.
I will put in a work order request this morning for the Point.
Thank you for bring this to our attention.
Bev
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From: Mel Kaufman <Melvin.Kaufman(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Melvin.Kaufman@umanitoba.ca>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 5:05 PM
To: Bev Godard <Bev.Godard(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Bev.Godard@umanitoba.ca>>
Cc: Rob Duncan <Rob.Duncan(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Rob.Duncan@umanitoba.ca>>; Rob Gulden <Rob.Gulden(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Rob.Gulden@umanitoba.ca>>; Doug Cattani <Doug.Cattani(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Doug.Cattani@umanitoba.ca>>
Subject: Mice at the Point and need for better understanding on how to deal with ABELL Pest control
March19/2024
Hi Bev,
I have attempted to record and set up a recording method at the Point for mouse sittings and ABELL Pest Control visit's recording. I have attached the file of the recording above for your viewing.
The clip boards with pen attached for recording have the file above and are at these locations at the Point:
1) Seed Storage East access door.
2) Seed Processing North access door.
3) Clipper Room East access door.
4) Seed Drying Room East access door.
5) Seed Drying Room North access door.
The White Board ABELL Pest Control sign in Chart location at the Point Field Station:
1) The West side of the Lunch room Doorway.
It was my intention to record the sittings of mice both alive and dead at the same time the location found and date so that ABELL Pest control would have an idea of the mouse activity to be filled out by whoever encounters these sittings. It was also my intention to have the ABELL Pest Control person indicate their visits to the various locations or just indicate on the closest or any of these clipboard stations that they were present and checked and cleaned out their traps.
ABELL Pest Control was notified to sign in at the White Board location listed above. BUT the last indicated visit was September 27/2023. In my opinion that is way too long in between visits to properly control Pests such as mice. Do we have in place a regular visit scheduled interval with ABELL Pest Control? If not I would say that they need to show up at a bare minimum of once every 2 weeks. Do I need to set this up or who do I communicate with to get this setup? What is our account name or number or indicator that its us to visit? What is ABELL Pest controls Contact information?
I need help in sorting this out so w3e can work safer and have less or no mouse droppings present for us to inhale as we work in these environments.
Please let me know if you have any solutions for me or can help me connect with ABELL Pest Control.
Vanessa Clemis has also been to the Mouse House and found old dead carcasses and just plastered with mouse droppings. I realize that only the deer mice carry this virus called Hantavirus and we mostly have field mice but the poop looks all alike and who's to say that the one time we get the infected droppings we start dropping.
Give me your thoughts. I am starting a daily walk through of the various sites and recording on these clipboards and will report the mouse sittings to somebody not sure who could you help me with that and we are going to get more vigilant with controlling these critters for our own safety here. Getting a plan in place with education of what is going on in this area is key!
Thanks for your input in advance!
With thanks,
(Mel) Melvin Kaufman
University of Manitoba
Plant Science Agricultural
Biological Technician 3
The Point - Shop Lead/Maintenance and Grounds
Cover Crop Manager
Email: Melvin.Kaufman(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Melvin.Kaufman@umanitoba.ca>
Text: +1-204-648-7570
From: Mya Kraft <Mya.Kraft(a)umanitoba.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2024 2:23 PM
To: FAFS-employees(a)lists.umanitoba.ca
Cc: Research Agriculture <agresearch(a)umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Research Chair in Potato Sustainability - Department of Plant Science
This message is sent on behalf of Dr. Nazim Cicek, Chair of the Search Committee for a Research Chair in Potato Sustainability
Dear Colleagues,
The Department of Plant Science at the University of Manitoba invites applications for a Research Chair in Potato Sustainability, a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Professor. The start date will be September 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The full-length position announcement is available on the UM Careers website: https://viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX?REQ_ID=31828.
Please circulate notice of this opportunity widely and forward to all who may be interested.
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The following is forwarded on behalf of Curt McCartney:
_____________________
There is a contract position open with Prograin located at Oak Bluff to conduct soybean trials. I thought there may be some interested in this opportunity.
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Thanks,
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Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 3:51 PM
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Subject: CCARM "Food for Thought" Seminar Series: Food Development Centre - Friday, March 22, 2024, at 11:00 am - IN PERSON
Importance: High
Caution! This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba.
On behalf of Dr. Thomas Netticadan, CCARM Team Leader, please post the attached poster (2 pages) and forward to everyone in your departments and anyone else you think may be interested,
Robin Young, Director of the Value Added Branch of Manitoba Agriculture;
Nelson Bowley, Manager of the Business Development with the Value Added Branch; and
Meeling Nivet, Manager of Product Commercialization at the Food Development Center (FDC)
will be giving an in-person seminar this Friday, March 22, 2024, from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm.
Their seminar is entitled, "What's Happening at FDC?"
Everyone is invited to attend this seminar at the St. Boniface Albrechtsen Research Centre in the Samuel N. Cohen Auditorium, 351 Tache Avenue.
Julie Schoffner
Administrative Assistant
Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM)
St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre
& University of Manitoba
Room R2019 - 351 Taché Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6 CANADA
Email: jschoffner2(a)sbrc.ca<mailto:jschoffner2@sbrc.ca>
Tel: 204.235.3455 Fax: 204.237.4018
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Good afternoon,
There has been a change to the Advanced Plant Science seminar schedule. Dr. Xiben Wang's seminar is now on April 18 (it was originally scheduled for March 28).
Please see attachment.
Thanks,
Alina Skorobohatova
University of Manitoba
Department of Plant Science
Rm 222, Agriculture Building
66 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
phone 204.474.8221 | fax 204.474.7528
* e-mail alina.skorobohatova(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:alina.skorobohatova@umanitoba.ca>
From: Doug Cattani <Doug.Cattani(a)umanitoba.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:59 AM
To: Bev Godard <Bev.Godard(a)umanitoba.ca>
Subject: PLNT 7250 Poster Presentations
PLNT 7250 students will be presenting their posters outside of Room 218 beginning the week of March 25. These posters will highlight the work of the MSc. program research of the students. Please take time to read about the work of our MSc students. We are planning for this to become an annual event for this class.
Therefore, as previously requested, all materials posted on the boards outside of Room 218 and along the hallway to Room 212 need to be removed by Friday March 22, 2024. Any materials left will be removed and disposed of after March 22.
Thank you for your assistance.
Douglas Cattani
Acting Department Head,
Associate Professor, Perennial Crop Breeding
Department of Plant Science,
University of Manitoba
(204) 474-6071
Doug.Cattani(a)umanitoba.ca<mailto:Doug.Cattani@umanitoba.ca>
The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. I respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and dedicate myself to move forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
M.Sc. Thesis Defense
ALEXA PETERSON
Department of Plant Science
will defend her M.Sc. thesis entitled
MAPPING OF QUANTITIVE TRAIT LOCI (QTLs)
IN THINOPYRUM INTERMEDIUM FOR
FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM TOLERANCE
AND AGRONOMIC TRAITS
9:00a.m., March 19, 2024
218 Plant Science Seminar Room