The National Summit on Agriculture and Rural Life will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2003 at The Hotel Fort Des Moines * 1000 Walnut Street * Des Moines, Iowa * 9:00am-4:15pm * November 15, 2003, check-in begins at the hotel at 8:00am. The Presidential Candidate Plenary Session, co-sponsored by KUNI Radio will begin at 1:30 and will feature individual addresses by Senator John Kerry, Governor Howard Dean, Representative Dennis Kucinich, Representative Dick Gephardt and Ambassador Carol Mosley Braun. The Summit has a $30 registration fee, $15 for students, that includes an all-Iowa lunch. That fee is payable by phone with a Visa or Mastercard or by credit or cash at the door. Pre-registration is required in order to prepare for lunch. To register for the Summit, please call 612-280-4730, or 612-270-2076 Beginning at 9:00am, the morning session will feature workshops with local, regional and national experts on Rural Development, U.S. agriculture, environment and trade policy. Keynote all-Iowa lunch, featuring speaker Mark Ritchie, President of the Minneapolis based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy For more information on the summit agenda and registration, please visit: www.leagueofruralvoters.org. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]