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Students graduate from nutrition classes offered by EFNEP in partnership with Project Access in Orange County.

Federal nutrition programs respond to COVID-19

February 1, 2021
In the spring of 2020, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and the CalFresh Healthy Living, UC (CFHL UC) Program faced the unprecedented experience of shelter-in-place and school closures due to COVID-19.
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Adult bed bugs are oval, wingless, about 1/5 inch long, and rusty red or mahogany in color. Photo by Dong-Hwan Choe

Californians get advice to stop bed bugs

November 17, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Bed bugs can hitch rides on secondhand furniture, luggage, backpacks and other personal items to invade homes and attack people. While we rest and sleep on sofas and beds, the insects come out to feed. They want to suck our blood.
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