NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

INCIDENTS

No reports received.

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's InsideNPS. To see the full text, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the Morning Report web page ( HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/):

Office of Communications - The NPS has awarded $950,000 in grants to help preserve more than 760 acres of land at seven of America's threatened Civil War battlefields.

Andrew Johnson NHS - A Wreaths Across America remembrance ceremony was held at Andrew Johnson NHS on December 14th. Fresh evergreen wreaths were placed on all of the national cemetery's 1,700 graves.

Grand Canyon NP - Kevin Parkes, supervisory budget analyst at Grand Canyon National Park, will retire on January 25th after more than 13 years of government service, including five-and-a-half years at Grand Canyon.

Casa Grande Ruins NM - Carol Miner West, chief of interpretation at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, will retire on December 27th. A retirement party is planned for January 18th.

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The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).

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