First, A BIG HOLLY JOLLY to you all.  

Second, The Statewide Master Gardener Program and Advisor/County Director Scott Oneto will be conducting our third ON-LINE training on the FAQ System for Master Gardeners on Wednesday, December 9th at 10:00 a.m.  To attend the on-line training just cut and paste this URL into your web browser:

URL:	https://breeze.ucdavis.edu/faq/

Where it says "Guest" please enter your name and county. 

We will send out a reminder email w/ link and login information about the online training on the morning of the training at 8:30 a.m.  The training will last for about an hour.  You should be able to get Continuing Education Credit for attending. The FAQ system is a new online system to assist Master Gardener volunteers find answers to hotline/help desk questions. The FAQ system (Frequently Asked Questions) enable volunteers to provide feedback to other FAQ’s and the ability to post their own questions with descriptions and photographs. UCCE Master Gardeners can access the FAQ system through the VMS, or through their UC portal.

For additional information and instruction on using the FAQ system, please click (or cut and paste the link into your browser) on the link below. This first link is the FAQ Introductory video. There are a total of six short videos that will guide you through the FAQ system, at the end of each video; there will be a prompt to continue on to the next video.  We encourage you to view the videos prior to attending the training.

http://stream.ucanr.org/mastergardener/mg_faq_intro/index.html

For those of you who haven't been or won't be able to attend a training, you may view the recorded training by going to:  https://breeze.ucdavis.edu/p86315355/

For more information or questions about the FAQ system, please contact myself, Pam Geisel, Statewide Master Gardener Coordinator (pmelam@ucdavis.edu) or James Sigala, Program Representative, UC Statewide Master Gardener Program, at jsigala@ucdavis.edu , (530) 865-1261. This project was made possible by a grant from the Elvenia J. Slosson Endowment and UCANR Communication Services. Project