Media Advisory
     
Not for publication
For planning purposes only

All times are local              

                                    Susan McAvoy (202) 720-4623
                                          susan.mcavoy@usda.gov
          
PUBLIC SCHEDULE FOR AGRICULTURE SECRETARY DAN GLICKMAN
                                                            Week of June 26-30, 2000                                    

Monday, June 26, 2000    
               11:00 a.m.     Joins volunteers to help build a house on the National Mall to
               promote use of sweat equity as tool to encourage home ownership.  

          National Mall
                    Across from the Smithsonian Castle, in front of the Natural
          History Museum
                                   Washington, DC 

                    Note:  Press should check-in at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
                                                  press tent, located on the Mall at 12th Street.   
                    

Tuesday, June 27, 2000   
          6:30 p.m. Addresses the Food Research and Action Committee's 30th annual
          benefit dinner.

          Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ballroom
          400 New Jersey Avenue, NW
          Washington, DC


Wednesday, June 28, 2000
          9:00 a.m. Delivers remarks at the opening session of the White House
          Community Empowerment Conference.

          Columbus Athenaeum
          Large Theater
          32 North 4th Street
          Columbus, OH


Friday, June 30, 2000
          1:00 p.m. Attends ribbon cutting ceremony for the renovated 5th floor, 3rd wing of
USDA's South Building.  

          U.S. Department of Agriculture
          South Building, 5th Floor, 3rd Wing
          1400 Independence Avenue, SW
          Washington, DC
                                
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