Van Vleet wins award

The National Association of County Agriculture announced Monday that Steve Van Vleet, extension specialist at the WSU extension office in Colfax, received the 2016 Distinguished Service Award during its annual meeting and professional improvement conference held in Little Rock, Ark.

A national award, it is awarded to agents with more than 10 years of service and experience in cooperative extension who have “exhibited excellence in the field of Extension Education."

This award is only presented to two percent of the county extension educators in Washington each year, according to the press rele...