Dole Fresh Vegetables moving to Monterey
Dole Fresh Vegetables moving to Monterey
Dole Fresh Vegetables is moving its offices from Salinas, CA, to Monterey, CA, beginning this summer. Dole will shift employees from 639 S. Sanborn Road in Salinas to 2959 Monterey-Salinas Highway in Monterey. The move will place about 180 office employees under one roof instead of the current setup at the Dole site in Salinas with multiple buildings.
Dole Fresh Vegetables is a division of Dole Food Co. Inc.
Red Blossom Farms adds growers
Salinas, CA-based Red Blossom Farms has added Lupe Valdez and Ruben Lara of V&L Farms to its roster of Salinas growers.
"Lupe and Ruben bring the expertise and quality we needed to complement our steady expansion and advancing cultural practices," said Doug Turner, general manager of Red Blossom.
V&L Farms will cultivate 240 acres of Red Blossom strawberries for the 2006 season. Messrs. Valdez and Lara have a long-standing family history of Salinas Valley farming and combined bring more than 17 years of strawberry-growing experience.
Donohue elected to the Americans for Libraries Council board
Dennis Donohue, president of Salinas, CA-based European Vegetable Specialties Farms Inc., has been elected to the Americans for Libraries Council board of directors at its recent meeting in Boston.
For more than a year, Mr. Donohue was a key organizer in the citizens' drive to keep Salinas libraries open. As a member of the "blue-ribbon" committee that oversaw the Rally Salinas! campaign, Mr. Donohue helped raise more than $767,000 to keep the libraries open, and he campaigned for Measure V, the half-cent sales tax increase that passed last November that will fund libraries and other city services. Mr. Donohue's efforts on behalf of libraries were recognized by the California Library Association, which awarded him its 2005 President's Award.
Mr. Donohue also was instrumental in bringing national attention to Salinas' libraries by inviting the Americans for Libraries Council to host a forum on the "Future of Salinas' Libraries" at Salinas' historic Steinbeck Library in September 2005. The forum, which brought together community leaders and members of the public to express their visions for the future of Salinas libraries, was part of a two-year research and dissemination project carried out by the Americans for Libraries Council with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Americans for Libraries Council is a national nonprofit that champions the role of libraries in American life and promotes new approaches to sustaining and developing libraries in the 21st century. Through its program division Libraries for the Future, www.lff.org, the council develops and oversees national programs to strengthen individual libraries and library systems.
Dole Fresh Vegetables is a division of Dole Food Co. Inc.
Red Blossom Farms adds growers
Salinas, CA-based Red Blossom Farms has added Lupe Valdez and Ruben Lara of V&L Farms to its roster of Salinas growers.
"Lupe and Ruben bring the expertise and quality we needed to complement our steady expansion and advancing cultural practices," said Doug Turner, general manager of Red Blossom.
V&L Farms will cultivate 240 acres of Red Blossom strawberries for the 2006 season. Messrs. Valdez and Lara have a long-standing family history of Salinas Valley farming and combined bring more than 17 years of strawberry-growing experience.
Donohue elected to the Americans for Libraries Council board
Dennis Donohue, president of Salinas, CA-based European Vegetable Specialties Farms Inc., has been elected to the Americans for Libraries Council board of directors at its recent meeting in Boston.
For more than a year, Mr. Donohue was a key organizer in the citizens' drive to keep Salinas libraries open. As a member of the "blue-ribbon" committee that oversaw the Rally Salinas! campaign, Mr. Donohue helped raise more than $767,000 to keep the libraries open, and he campaigned for Measure V, the half-cent sales tax increase that passed last November that will fund libraries and other city services. Mr. Donohue's efforts on behalf of libraries were recognized by the California Library Association, which awarded him its 2005 President's Award.
Mr. Donohue also was instrumental in bringing national attention to Salinas' libraries by inviting the Americans for Libraries Council to host a forum on the "Future of Salinas' Libraries" at Salinas' historic Steinbeck Library in September 2005. The forum, which brought together community leaders and members of the public to express their visions for the future of Salinas libraries, was part of a two-year research and dissemination project carried out by the Americans for Libraries Council with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Americans for Libraries Council is a national nonprofit that champions the role of libraries in American life and promotes new approaches to sustaining and developing libraries in the 21st century. Through its program division Libraries for the Future, www.lff.org, the council develops and oversees national programs to strengthen individual libraries and library systems.
