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Cresud S.A. (NASDAQ:CRESY)
F1Q13 Earnings Call
November 23, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Alejandro Elsztain – Second Vice Chairman and CEO
Matias Gaivironsky – CFO
David Perednik – Chief Administrative Officer
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Good morning everyone. And welcome to Cresud's First Quarter 2013 Results Conference Call. Today's live webcast both audio and slideshow maybe accessed through Company's Investor Relations website at www.cresud.com.ar/ir by clicking the banner teleconference. The following presentation and the earnings release issued last week are also available for download on the company's website. After management's remarks there will be a question-and-answer session for analysts and investors. At that time further instruction will be given. (Operator Instructions). You will have also the possibility of sending a question via webcast by clicking on the question to host tool.
Before we begin, I would like to remind you that this call is being recorded. And that information discussed today may include forward looking statements regarding the company's financial and operating performance. All projections are subject to risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially. Please refer to the detailed note in the company's earnings release regarding forward-looking statements.
I would now turn the call over to Mr. Alejandro Elsztain, Chief Executive Officer of Cresud. Please go ahead sir.
Alejandro Elsztain
Thank you very much. Good morning everybody. We are beginning our conference call of results of 2013 first quarter. If we can go to page number two, we see the main highlights for the first quarter.
From fiscal year 2013, the company adopted accounting policies, IFRS, that is changing a lot of our balance sheet and we are going to take a lot of minutes to explain the effect of this new system for our balance sheet.
The operating income totaled 180 million pesos, 9% lower than last year due to our 20 million operating loss from the agricultural segment offset by 16% increase in the operating income from the Urban segment. The agricultural segment was affected this year a lot in derivatives. Future sales of this campaign were 30 September very high, and those made a loss [business of] [ph] 36 million pesos loss this year comparing to last year that was a 16 million pesos gain.
So, there is a very big strong effect on the agricultural in derivatives that is affecting the agricultural line that is just [hedge] [ph] of the campaign that will change, I'm not very happy because the prices went down. But this effect was in the 30 September and but it's affecting comparing year to year. But reality is agriculture for first quarter is almost zero, in the IFRS system, agriculture is reflected every time you are producing, and the first quarter is not producing. So, this affect is almost zero, we're going to talk about just cattle and dairy, mainly the sugarcane business is doing very well.
Our net loss of 16.5 million pesos was reflected this quarter, mainly due to higher net financial results; we've started the crop season and we expect to plant crops in approximately 207,000. This is the planted area of Cresud that is going to go to Cresud, Cresca, Agrouranga and BrazilAgro. Apart from that there is some (inaudible) some funds that Cresud doesn't produce and [replacing] [ph] in a fixed payment to others to reduce and diversify the risk.
Crop production, mainly corresponding to various planting during 2011 and '12 season decreased by 19%, and due to lower yields caused by the drought that affected the whole region. That was the main explanation of last year that affected the last part of this crop that we harvest between June and September.
The beef cattle segment recorded a loss of almost 2 million pesos in gross income compared to profit of last year of 6.7 million pesos, this was really explained by lower holding results, last year holding was positive like 9 million pesos, this year it's almost zero.
In the case of the milk, the production, we continue to note high production levels, in excess of 20 liters per cow, in El Tigre facility. We have increased our interest in IRSA shares, reaching 64.5%. And our general shareholder meeting resolved to pay 120 million pesos cash dividend that is going to be paid soon, this represents a dividend yield of 4.53%.
If we move to page three, we see the weather and humidity conditions in the region, this is very good news for Cresud and all of the companies in South America, we see the green shows good weather conditions, yesterday we had rains in the North of Argentina too, that is the part that is more delayed for planting because it's not always it's planted in December, so it's very good news for the whole portfolio of plan of Cresud. So, we are expecting and we're going to see in next page, that USDA is expecting good yield for the whole region.
And here we see that in fourth page, USDA estimations shows that the drop of last year soybeans Argentina was for 49 million to 41 million, expecting for next 55 million tons. In the case of Brazil the same, from 75 million tons, last year drought went to 66 million and it is expected to be 81 million surpassing the United States yields of soybeans so becoming Brazil the largest soybeans producer of the world.
And in corn, we see the same, the big drop on the yield of corn in the United States from 335 moving to 271, so that was the main effect of the drought in the States that changed a lot of the price of our [main] [ph] assets and the affect in the soybeans too. So but, the forecast for this year is much higher, 55 million tons for Argentina and plantation is growing very, very well.
If we move to one second – I'm sorry, I'm receiving the comment that the presentation is not working. And so, some investors have asked us to stop the conference call because they are not really ready to read. What I'm saying, I'm very sorry. We are proposing to investors to reschedule for it – one minute. So, one minute, and let's wait a minute, I will stop here to be sure that everybody is seeing. And after that moment I suspend, not cancel stay online, so I invite everybody to stay online. And I would like to be sure that everybody follows me, that I'm running a lot and without the presentation that is very tough. Thank you very much.
Company Representative
We are ready to continue. I will ask you to refresh the presentation. It was mistake, it was uploaded, the press release is there on the webcast. So, right now the presentation is already uploaded. So we can continue, but please refresh the presentation on the system.
Alejandro Elsztain
We expect you are ready. And let's move to page number five, attractive commodity outlook.
And here we see evolution on prices of the four main products and something that I explained in the highlights about the effect of derivatives. Prices at September were at the top and derivatives were affecting negative because of that. In the case of soybeans, there was a big drop after that, like 14% from the highest prices of soybeans. And in the rest some dropped too and that is what I explained at the beginning.
So, we see that the prices are very firm in all of the products in the agricultural products, not in the beef and milk. In the agricultural commodities because of drought, the combination of drought, first, Argentina, Brazil, South America region, later the United States drought, the combination of both made this increasing prices that made so strong a situation and so tight the situation of demand in commodities.
There was [some drop] [ph] and we're seeing that today's prices are strong enough, demand is very slim. So, we expect not to see higher losses on the prices than today. There was a big [accommodation] [ph] on prices. So, we're seeing they are [free enough][ph] to the next part of the campaign. And this is the year that we have the highest hedge position of our history we're going to show you later with Matias, what percentage of Cresud it's hedged on the future market.
When we talk about cheese and milk, the situation is different. In here the prices are not recovering, there is a small drop in prices of this year. Almost even price in the milk so that is affecting margins for both activities.
If we move to page number six, I would introduce Matias Gaivironsky.
Matias Gaivironsky
Good morning everyone. So, I apologize for the delay in the presentation. Going to page six, you can see here our hedge position for soybean and corn in the different countries and their consolidated positions.
So, you can see that in Argentina, the soybean for this campaign, we already hedged 61%, in Brazil 54%, in Bolivia 14% and in Paraguay 35%, that give us that we have our net consolidated hedge position of 50% at the price of $414 per ton. In the case of the corn, we have 65% of Argentina already hedged in Brazil 44% and consolidated basis we have 47%, at a price of $194 per ton.
In we move to page number seven, we can see our evolution of crop area, and that shows that we had an increase of 8% year to year. This year we are planting 221,000 acres, proving the four countries to BrazilAgro and CRESCA in the case of Brazil and Paraguay. And so, the largest still Argentina with 115,000 acres, 71,000 acres Brazil, 24,000 acres Bolivia, and 11,000 acres Paraguay. 57%, of that is soybeans, second in size is corn, now sugarcane became 5% so sugarcane, this is in area not in sales that is much higher. So, sugarcane plantation is growing part of Brazil, we began plantation of sugarcane in Bolivia and that is the affect of this growth.
And here we are showing the transformation of the area to agriculture. This year we are expecting to transform 24,600 acres, 7,600 in Argentina, 11,700 in Brazil and 5,300 acres in Paraguay.
If we move to page number eight, we can see the yields that we closed last year and this is the graph that shows that the yield was affected by the drought. We can see the yields for both corn that went from 6.5 last year to 5.7, so the drought affected our last year results, the 2.5 in soybeans while we do 2.0, so that was the main effect of the drought for the old regional yield evolution. That when we do in total production, we see a drop from – we grew in area but we had a drop in total tons because of the affect of the drought affecting the four countries.
And if we see the first quarter, this is last year, so it's not affecting our total, the balance sheet of this year, which was so just concluding what happened last year.
In next page, we can see cattle and meat production for the first quarter. And the first quarter, we can talk about in the production, I would share with you that fiscal year last year, we had a stock of cattle of almost 70,000 heads. Today, the stock is almost 61,000 so there was a drop on stock of 13% but we had an increase of production of almost 30% in beef for the third quarter. And in the case of milk, having almost the same stock so it didn't change, production is almost the same, 21 liters to 21.4 liters, so just only an increase of 2.1% to 2.21% to 6.4%.
So, if we move to page number 10, we can talk about last year the balance sheet for the first quarter included the sale of one farm that was the case of San Pedro fund, it was the third quarter of 2012, and San Pedro farm in Brazil. This year, the first quarter there is any farm sale in the balance sheet, there is only one sale than after the balance sheet closed that was done in October so it's reflected on the balance sheet. And this is the farm of Argentina, the farm in Brazil that was purchased two years before at 37.7 million real.
And it was sold two years later at 75 million real that represent a 37% internal rate of return having invested in the meantime 10.4 million real. So, a big gain of transformation of land in Brazil but not reflecting up to now on the balance sheet of BrazilAgro and Cresud neither.
So, I will introduce Mr. David Perednik, that will explain us the IFRS evaluation of the disclosure for next year.
David Perednik
Good morning to everybody. We expect to change that we have to make in our financial statements in the first quarter. First, not only it affected the evaluation in the different results but also it has affected in material way, the disclosure that we are making of our different results on also our different assets. And we're going to explain them right now.
With respect to the joint businesses, there is a main change that on the interest in equity in the field of our investments, we have 50% of share not proportionally consolidated any longer, that means that we are not consolidating them in P&L. The company studies and analysis of the business as a whole, really the segment business, are accounting them, and they're consolidating them. So, you're going to see in the charts of the financial statement that in the P&L, we no longer have finances, the CRESCA company in Paraguay is consolidated, they are only in the VPP line, proportionally in the – sorry – in the line of company's joint business denote are not operative. And but the segment business we do consolidate them.
Especially in part of biological assets, the biological assets of the company are valued at fair value, and see significant biological growth, the evaluation is based on in-court and after that point you're seeing discounted cash flow measures. This is also a change because before we only were go not seeing the assets – ask of the moment that we were in harvesting. And now we're going to recognize the biology – the asset according to biological growth.
With respect to the changes in real property, there is new classification in the way that we disclosed this is our financial statement, we have 35 existing properties, separated than property plan and equipment and property for sale, this is the way the value FRS rules are considering for every company in the world. And in different properties we are including the properties intended to generate rental income, in our case in Cresud case, this means lease farms and we are consolidating well for shopping centers from our real-estate share needs, OCC and land reserves.
We expect to the property plan and equipments, we're including funds and we tell that the farms that are not intended to generate income that meet the farms that we are producing. And the property for sale, we are including the properties intended for sale and from brochure agreements.
We still do changes in the recognition of income from property sales, both the sale on income are generally recorded at the time of execution of the title bids and we are not more recognizing NRB. We expect to the impact on leases, the leases including stead-wise increases on broker's fee, mostly recognize under the straight line method of the contract terms, that means that we are straightening the different monthly or quarterly rent over all the contract terms and are accounting them year by year.
With respect to the investments and financial instruments, like our farms in yields at Hersha to Brazil and CGLT, they must be valued at market value according to the new rules, value IFRS in main change that we have to consider in this quarter, because before we were taking only the cost of this investment, we were not considering the market value. That means that we are going to have in the future an important volatility in our income statement from these financial shares.
With respect to the equity industries, Banco de Crédito and Palermo, they are accounted as equity nationals we have no change compared to what we have been doing up to now. And with respect to the business combinations, IFRS is considering no more that include real.
Okay, let's go to the page number 12, where we're going to see Cresud income statement as of 30 September. With respect to the growth income, here we increased 42.4 million pesos, 25% from 37.1 million pesos for the three months period ended as of September 30, 2011 to 79.5 million pesos gain for the three months period as of 30 September 2012. And this was mainly due to an increase of 31.9 million pesos, 134% in the growth profit from our crop segment from 23.8 million pesos in 2011 to 55.6 million pesos gain in 2012.
With respect to the beef cattle segment, we had a decrease of Alejandro have already said of 8.6 million pesos or 128% in the gross profit from 6.7 million gain from the first quarter of 2011 to 1.9 million pesos loss for the first quarter of 2012.
With respect to the meat segment, we had a decrease of 1.2 million pesos or 53.5% in the gross profit of this segment from 2.2 million pesos from First Q of 2011 to 1.0 million pesos gain in the First Q of 2012.
With respect to sugarcane, we had an increase of 18 million pesos in the gross profit from the sugarcane segment from 0.4 million in the first Q of 2011 to 17.5 million gain for the first Q of 2012, and this was mainly due to a higher price and also to a higher production of sugar compared year to year.
With respect to our share in (inaudible) we had a lower loss of 2.3 million pesos or 47% from our agro-industrial segment, the feedback under this business from 4.9 million pesos loss in first Q 2011 to 2.6 million pesos loss in 2012. Sorry, when I'm referring 2011 and 2012, I'm referring to 2012 and the first Q of 2013.
With respect to the other segment, we mainly have our share in (inaudible) and we have an increase of 4.1 million pesos or 150% in the gross profit from 2.6 million pesos in the first Q of 2012 to 6.7 million pesos in the first Q of 2013. And okay, with respect to the increase of 23 million or 10.5% in the gross profit from our real estate business fees, this was a gain of 228.3 million pesos for the first Q of 2012 compared to 252 million pesos in the first Q of 2013.
Going to operating income, the operating income increased 15.1 million pesos or 8.6% from 127 million pesos gain in first Q 2012 to 192 million pesos gain in the first Q 2013. This was mainly due to a decrease of 44.2 million in the operating income from our agricultural business segment from 25 million pesos gain in first Q 2012 to 19.1 million pesos loss in 2013.
We had a decrease of 100% in our income from the sale of farms from 34.3 million pesos gain in first Q of 2012, compared – sorry, during fiscal year 2013 we had sold San Pedro farm that means, which explains the main difference. And this year we haven't had any sale of farm.
With respect to the hardware operating income, the first – the main difference was the future demand from a profit of 50 million pesos last year to a loss of 28 million pesos that has already been explained by Alejandro.
With respect to yields, we had an increase of 60 million pesos in the operating income from our real-estate business from 154 million pesos in 2012 first Q to 214 million pesos in the first Q of 2013.
Seeing our financial results, our financials were 314.4 million loss for the first Q of 2012 compared to 120.5 million pesos loss for the first Q of 2013 and the main variations were generated by higher financial debt interest due to higher debt by interest rate. We have very higher loss of 103.2 million pesos compared to 26.4 million pesos loss in 2012. A higher loss of 63 million pesos loss generated by foreign exchange rate, it was a first Q of '13, we had (inaudible) compared to 0.095 in the first Q of last year 2012.
With respect to the gain that we had in the share of Hersha financials coming from our company of real estate, our share need – we had a difference of 145.6 million pesos between good periods related to the change in the certified view of the Hersha financial that I already explained that this is one of the main changes that we have in our financial statements.
And finally, with explanation with P&L, the net income attributable to the shareholders of result of the part mention, our net attributable to shareholder, the net income attributable to shareholders increased 28.6 million pesos from 95.1 million pesos loss for the three months period of the first Q 2012, compared to 16.5 million pesos gain of September 30, 2012 or the first Q of 2013.
Okay, going to page 13, here we have the breakdown of our total debt – consolidated debt of Cresud, primarily consolidated yields of BrazilAgro and Alto Palermo. So, at Cresud standalone basis, we have $242 million of debt on a consolidated basis, net debt of the company is 740 million remains stable compared with the last quarter.
Net debt to EBITDA, you've seen this quarter of EBITDA analyzing this EBITDA between, we don't longer have the evolution of EBITDA because of the change of the rule. So analyzing this EBITDA that reached 3.6 times net debt to EBITDA and net debt to net asset 34% but remember that this is a book-value and not at market value.
So, now operator, we like the investors to make questions. Operator? Moment of questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). We do have a question from the line of Pedro Richards from Raymond James. Your line is now open.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Hi Alejandro, Matias, David, thanks for the call. I have several questions. My first question is regarding the evaluation of the farms under IFRS, David went through in detail over the presentation. But I wanted to understand what does IFRS state about the evaluation of farms so you showed that you have them under PPE. Does new IFRS rule or would like to use fair-value or market-value or does it allow you to keep them under historical cost? Thanks.
Alejandro Elsztain
Thank you Pedro. Regarding the evaluation of properties, remember that under IFRS you don't have the obligation, you can choose between keep measuring all the properties at book value or at fair-market value. We decided to value all the properties at book-value and that is mainly to avoid the volatility of different valuation under our financial standard. We prefer to be conservative and only recognize the gains when we sell the farms.
So, under IFRS, remember that you have right now three different categories for our assets that are investment properties, property plan and equipment and property for sale. We only in the financial standard, you will find a note of the estimation now our – the rational value of our properties only for the investment properties. That's – in Cresud are only properties that we have to lease to third parties.
So, under the new IFRS you won't find our estimation of the properties, only for the funds that we lease to third parties. In yields, we have this different – and yields are under investment properties, we have all the shopping centers, the offices under land reserve. So, value for on a consolidated basis of our properties, our investment properties, our estimation that also is conservative, it's 7 billion pesos that include 6.9 billion pesos of yields and only [75] [ph] million pesos of Cresud. In Cresud we are only – we are only including some farms that we leased to third parties. So, the book value of these 7 billion pesos on our financial statement are 3.4, so you will see all the – will remain with the same valuation that in the past at 3.4 billion pesos.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay. And do you eventually plan to start releasing an independent appraisal on the rest of the farms that you don't lease, and start showing the market value or that's not in the plans now?
Alejandro Elsztain
Up to now it's not in our plan to release the value or third party appreciation.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay. Another thing I wanted to understand from the financial statements, if in the sales and cost of goods sold lines, there are two notes that in the full financial statement that lead to the breakdown of sales and cost of goods sold between real-estate and agro business. And I mean, you have a gross profit of before the fair-value of biological assets only taking into account sales and cost of goods sold you have a gross profit of 119 million pesos. And that's breaking down from yields or real-estate and agro business. You have gross profit of 241 from real estate and a negative gross profit of 121 from agro business.
Can you explain – I want to understand the reason why the sale – I mean the gross profit from sales of crop production that has already been harvested before the fair value of biological assets, gives a loss? Can you clear on that?
Alejandro Elsztain
Pedro, we will see the details, probably we can answer you later, and if other investors and analysts have the same question, you can send me – or you can send me an e-mail and I will forward the answer for everyone.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Perfect, and now to very specific questions. Regarding the increasing planted area, that in the presentation you showed that you were increasing planted area to – from 207,000 acres last year to 221,000 acres. And in the press release I think it was expected planting area of 207,000 acres, what's the difference?
Alejandro Elsztain
The difference is, farms of Cresud rented to third parties.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay, excellent. And finally, regarding the hedging prices you disclosed here in the presentation you mentioned that you have – the soybean production you have already hedged 50% at a price of $414 per ton?
Matias Gaivironsky
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Is that a price after export taxes $414 per ton?
Matias Gaivironsky
I think this includes the – each country, so this is the average for the price for Argentina, we taxed the rest without.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay. So, in the case of Argentina, this price is after taxes?
Matias Gaivironsky
Yeah, exactly, net price we close.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay, the same for the 195 for corn?
Matias Gaivironsky
184 for the corn.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Alejandro Elsztain
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay. And one final question, regarding the crop yields for fiscal year 2013, the year we are commencing do you expect crop yields to be similar to those last year, fiscal year 2010 or fiscal year 2011, see in the slide in the presentation of crop yields?
Alejandro Elsztain
So, we are now expecting not to have a drought. We plan for having a normal year. And if the situation is normal, but it is too early to explain but really we expect a normal year, the year before was a normal year. So, last year was not.
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Alejandro Elsztain
…we expect to have. And apart of that, remember that a big portion of our assets are maturing farms. So, apart of normal year you have maturity of farms like in Brazil or North of Argentina or Paraguay that every year, the yield increases a part of a normal year more than a mature like (inaudible) that it's more mature. So, you recover to the normal yields when you are maturing land you're increasing into the (inaudible).
Pedro Richards – Raymond James
Okay, thank you Alejandro. Thanks for the color.
(Operator Instructions). There are no questions at this time. So this does conclude the question-and-answer session. At this time, I would like to turn the floor back to Mr. Alejandro Elsztain for any closing remarks.
Alejandro Elsztain
So, thank you very much everybody. We are going to close. We are optimistic because we are increasing area, we have good awareness. We come with a very good normal and good area or planted area for all the region. Good prices, a lot of hedge and a big development of new land to next year. So on short, like always we do – some sale of one asset that reflects very good hidden value that our portfolio has. So we are very optimistic for next quarters. So see you at the end of this year.
So thank you very much and have a very good Thanksgiving Day. Bye.
This does conclude today's presentation. You may disconnect your lines at this time. And have a nice day.
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Volunteer Requirements
- You must be at least 15 years of age.
- You must offer a minimum of 30 hours of service per year
- You must schedule an appointment with Volunteer Services by calling (314) 781-0900, ext. 4670
- Attend required training (provided free of charge by the Zoo)
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer ambassadors serve the public throughout the grounds providing basic information, directions, and Zoo history. On occasion, ambassadors assist with crowd control and special events.
- Two day Information Volunteer Training
- 2-3 hours of individual training provided by experienced volunteers
- Monday-Sunday flexible hours
Docents, managed by the Zoo's Education Department, are volunteer teachers. They help visitors and school children learn about animals and the natural world by teaching classes at the Zoo and in the community, Interpreting animals and conservation to visitors on Zoo grounds and conducting educational tours.
- Two day Information Volunteer Training and interview by the Docent Recruitment Committee
- Docent training is required.
- Docents must volunteer a minimum of 62 hours per year.
Volunteer for Zoo, Zoo Friends and Young Zoo Friends fundraisers and other events.
- One day Volunteer Orientation
- On the job training
- Contact Volunteer Services for event dates and times
A person seeking to obtain practical hands- on experience in the areas of animal management, education, or related field. Externs need not be currently enrolled in college/university, but prior college coursework is required. Externs will not receive college credit for this program.
- One day Volunteer Orientation plus on the job training
- Letter of intent describing background, interest, goals and availability. Current resume; formal application; two letters of reference (educational or business)
- Externs are required to serve a minimum of 15 hours per week for a minimum of six weeks.
Meet and greet visitors and provide non-medical assistance on a limited basis.
- One Day Volunteer Orientation
- On the job training
- Three-hour shifts
Assist Zoo staff with greeting customers, stocking merchandise and helping guests with their selection.
- One day Volunteer Orientation
- On the job training
- Monday -- Sunday flexible hours scheduled with the staff person in charge.
Help the horticulture crew with planting, watering, weeding and mulching throughout zoo grounds.
- One day Volunteer Orientation
- On the job training
- Monday through Friday flexible hours, as needed
Are you a people person? Meet and greet Zoo visitors. Providing directions within the Zoo and around St. Louis, dispensing maps and offering advice are just a part of this function.
- Two day Information Volunteer Training
- On the job training
- Summer only. Morning and afternoon shifts available.
Educate visitors about the vertebrates and invertebrates.
- One day Volunteer Orientation
- On the job training
- Monday-Sunday flexible hours consisting of 2 hour shifts
Assist staff with computer, organization, and clerical work; assist researchers in field work; or conduct research into the scientific literature and provide general staff support work.
- Two day Information Volunteer Training
- On the job training
Our internships allow college/university student or recent graduate in the areas of biology, zoology, education, animal science, or related field receiving credit through their college or university under the direction of a faculty advisor, while obtaining practical hands-on work experience.
- One day Volunteer Orientation, plus on the job training
- Letter of intent describing background, interest, goals and availability. Current resume; formal application; two letters of reference (educational or business)
- Interns are required to serve a minimum of 20 hours per week for a minimum of six weeks.
Give guided walking tours to groups of 15 or more.
- Two day Information Volunteer Training
- Job-Specific Tour Guide Training
- Daytime tours as scheduled with groups from in town, out of town, schools, and businesses.
- Only available to seasoned volunteers with one or more years of volunteer experience
Zoo ALIVE volunteers are high school students who help with Camp KangaZoo during the summer, and many other education programs and activities throughout the year. They help lead crafts, games, and activities for children and Zoo visitors, while learning about animals and wildlife conservation through opportunities at the Zoo and beyond. Minimum age is 15 by June 2016.
- One day of training/orientation required, June 4 or June 10, 2016.
- A completed Zoo ALIVE Application packet. Applications are due by March 3 and applicants are interviewed on March 13, 2016. Selections are made in early April. Click the Zoo ALIVE heading for detailed information and a 2016 application packet.
- Minimum one full year commitment. Required attendance at monthly meetings. Zoo ALIVE teens must volunteer at least twice per month, including two consecutive weeks at Camp KangaZoo in summer.
ZooTeens is a new volunteer opportunity at the Saint Louis Zoo available during the busy summer season. The ZooTeens group will consist of high school teens, ages 15-18, seeking volunteer experience.
Program Dates
May through August 2017*
Orientation May 6, 2017
*ZooTeens may begin or end volunteer service on different dates based on school schedule, but attendance at May 6, orientation is mandatory.
Volunteer Opportunities
- Gift shops
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- Minimum age of 15 by May 1, 2017
- Must be accepted into the ZooTeens program by Volunteer Services (successful interview, completion of application and background check)
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This hotel is located near the intersection of two main highways, in between Dartmouth and Halifax, making it ideally located for guests who are looking to explore the Halifax-Dartmouth area by car.more
This property offers both smoking and non-smoking rooms. All rooms include free Wi-Fi, free local calls, a 32" flat screen TV and DVD player, a coffeemaker, a mini-fridge, a desk with ergonomic chair, an iron and ironing board, a hair dryer and air conditioning. Rooms are furnished with 1 king bed or 2 queen beds. Room extras include a sofabed, a microwave, a sink with counter, a dining table, a separate living room and a private bedroom with a second TV and DVD player. Accessible rooms are also available.
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Other on-site amenities include a 24-hour fitness centre, a business centre, a guest laundry, an ATM, dry cleaning, foreign currency exchange, ice/vending machines, safe deposit boxes, free newspapers and meeting rooms.
Downtown Dartmouth, which features restaurants, cafes, nightlife, and Alderney Landing (theatre, farmer's market, access to the Halifax-Dartmouth ferry, and art gallery), is about 8 minutes away by car. Mic Mac Mall (shopping centre) is a 7-minute drive away, while Dartmouth Crossing (big box shopping complex and movie theatre) is 10 minutes away by car.
Downtown Halifax, which features the Halifax Metro Centre (sports and entertainment venue), the World Trade and Convention Centre (meeting and event complex), the waterfront trail system, Pier 21 (historic immigration site) and the Halifax Casino is 15 minutes away by car. The Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) is at least a 21-minute drive away. (All driving time estimates: Google Maps)
Confirmed with the front desk on October 29, 2015: one pet per room is allowed in certain rooms for $10 per stay, the hotel still has a 3 smoking rooms available at this time
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Service received high scores in the reviews. Guests described the front desk agents as friendly, genuine, fun, polite and knowledgeable. They were reported to be helpful in solving issues that sometimes arose.
Many guests found comfortable rooms. Guests described the rooms as very clean, quiet, spacious, nicely decorated and well maintained. Some mentioned comfortable beds and pillows and great views of Halifax.
Guests seemed to appreciate the free breakfast. Guests usually described it as good or as having a good variety of choices and delicious coffee. One guest wrote, "Complimentary breakfast is a bonus, clean and tidy dining area, I enjoy my thick toast, fruit, and hot tea, but there is a nice variety of breads, cereals, a hot dish, and a pancake machine as well!"
Guests found the location convenient. Many mentioned having good access to both cities, the Burnside Industrial Park, the bridge to Halifax, shopping and the highway.
Guests gave high scores for value. Reviewers seemed to consider the hotel to offer above average accommodations for a reasonable price. Adding value for some were free Wi-Fi, a nice hot breakfast and a very good exercise room.
Wi-Fi was rated as excellent by guest reviewers overall.
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Occasionally, guests pointed out what they considered to be the hotel's weaknesses in recent reviews.more
With regard to the location, some guests found the hotel difficult to access from the highway, and lacking a selection of restaurants in walking distance.
A couple of reviewers complained of noisy AC units in their rooms.
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SourcesExpedia.ca gave this hotel an average score of 4.2 out of 5 with 96% of 517 guests recommending the property.
TripAdvisor.ca ranked this hotel #3 out of 12 properties in Dartmouth, with an average rating of 4 out of 5 from 523 reviews.
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In the Tassajara Valley fire suppression was provided by volunteers under the auspices of a huge district, the East County Fire Protection District. Rose Bettencourt Ferreira recalled that her family house burned down in August of 1923, and only the barn and outhouses were saved. She especially mourned the loss of their large collection of stereoptican slides and family pictures. A Mount Diablo fire in 1925 swept over 1,000 acres, threatening homes at the Diablo Club. That fire was fought by 100 volunteers for over 18 hours.
In 1969 Tassajara ranchers organized the volunteer Tassajara Fire Protection District, headed by a five-member Fire Commission. The district had a fire truck at Roger Lake's house near the top of Morgan Territory Road and Station 36 at 6100 Camino Tassajara. By 1987 they protected 285 homes with an annual budget of $80,000.
The commission met at the Tassajara School House on Finley Road for which they took responsibility. Over the years the school had been saved with a new foundation and roof; renovations of the building continued under the auspices of the fire district and local volunteers. An annual picnic at the school sponsored by the district and the community gave residents a chance to see one another, hear a report from the district, and raise funds to support school and fire district improvements.
The district participated in the Twin Valley and other mutual aid agreements. Its volunteer organization and small budget was supported by contracts with San Ramon Valley Fire for dispatch services and with the Dublin San Ramon Services District for administration and inspection services during the 1980s. Chief Phil Phillips of DSRSD was a mentor and advisor for the Tassajara volunteers who were supervised by Chief Warren Reinstein, followed by Chief Steve Eppler.
Discussions about joining the larger San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District began seriously in the 1980s. In 1989 Steve Morgan, chairman of the Tassajara Fire Commission, recommended that the two fire districts should merge. In a letter to residents, he gave these reasons:
1. Install a full-time 24-hour per day, 7-day per week, paid force in Station 36. All volunteers who wish to remain active are welcome to do so.
2. Continue to support the volunteer force on Morgan Territory with training, new vehicles and an actual station.
3. Create a special services district to carry on the maintenance and administration of the Old Tassajara School.
4. Create an Executive Board composed of existing Fire Commission members to advise the SRVFPD Board of Directors on issues of concern to Tassajara residents.
Morgan also wrote that the change would not affect the tax rate and would not tie Tassajara to the city of San Ramon. This latter statement responded to activist Joe Covello who wanted to have a fire district which would serve only the city of San Ramon; he had served on the Dublin San Ramon Services District but did not speak for San Ramon's council.
Covello charged that there was a hidden agenda and some kind of deal had been struck between the two districts. An angry SRVFPD Director Bill Blendow replied, "I want you to know that we've never done anything under the table. How come everyone wants this but San Ramon?" The Local Agency Formation Commission (charged with district reorganizations), listened to the debate and voted unanimously to approve the annexation.
The Tassajara District annexed to the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District in 1990, bringing its 35 volunteer firefighters and a responsibility for 325 homes and a 40 square mile area to SRVFPD. In 1997 the SRVFPD became the fire district for all of the San Ramon, Sycamore, Tassajara and Dougherty valleys, including the Town of Danville, the city of San Ramon and the unincorporated county. Professionals and volunteers now serve the greater Tassajara Valley, many with fond memories of the historic Tassajara firefighter-volunteers.
Sources: Grange Herald, Aug. 4, 1923, CC Courier and Danville Journal Oct. 30, 1925, Rambling Reminiscences by Charlotte Wood, 1951), San Ramon Valley Times, Aug. 9, 1990, Steve Morgan
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A flat week was weaker than the broad market, which saw gains of 1.1% in the S&P and .8% in Nasdaq. Once again, biotech was constrained by its two big-cap goliaths, Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) and Genentech (Private:DNA), which each slipped about 1.5% lower. Take away the market capitalization factor of the CBT 200™ index, an act that diminishes the effect of these elder statesmen, and the average biotech company rose a slightly stronger 0.6%.
Breadth swung back to the modestly positive side and was fully in line with a slightly firmer biotech sector. There were 115 biotech companies that gained ground, while 99 moved lower, which yields a close ratio of 1.2 gainers for every decliner. Reflecting a much quieter market, only 13 biotechs rose 10% or more, while 9 companies gave up at least 10% of their value. That means there were 1.4 big winners for every big loser.
The best sector in biomedical stocks was big pharma, which climbed 2.5%. For the past two years, big pharma has been hurt because it was difficult to predict growth for these companies. Now, because they have predictable earnings, they look better to investors, who have become more wary. The overall ratcheting down of expectations makes investors think more positively about a sector that is, at the same time, defensive and profitable.
There were no IPOs from biotech last week, but Tongjitang Chinese Medicines (NYSE:TCM), a Chinese company that produces traditional Chinese herbal drugs in modern form, is on the schedule for the coming week (see story). Also, last week, Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ) announced its intentions to seek the fairly large sum of $173 million in an IPO later this year.
The biotechs that have made their debuts during the last year continue to outperform their more seasoned brethren. Last week, the 27 companies on the Recent IPO list rose an average 1.3%, led by a gain of 24% in SGX Pharma (SGXP). SGX reported a narrowing loss for Q4 of 2006, as it booked increased revenues from its research partnerships. On the negative side, Rosetta Genomics (NASDAQ:ROSG) dropped 22% as it gave up its post-IPO trading profits. And 3SBio (NASDAQ:SSRX) slipped 13%, which put the IPO investors at a 31% loss in the month since it began trading.
On the CBT 200™ list, La Jolla Pharma (NASDAQ:LJPC) was far and away the best performer, rising 91%. The company reported interim data from a new Phase III test of its lupus drug, Riquent. La Jolla Pharma said that biomarkers show a dose dependent positive reaction to Riquent, which is being administered at several levels including a higher dosage than given in previous trials. The biomarker, however, is not one of the endpoints of the trial. Riquent received an approvable letter from the FDA in 2004, but the agency wanted more proof of efficacy. This trial is expected to continue for most of the rest of 2007. La Jolla Pharma rose $2.81 to $5.91.
Tercica (TRCA) rose 19% after winning a patent infringement suit against Insmed (NASDAQ:INSM). Both companies developed a growth stimulation drug (Tercica is in partnership with Genentech). Insmed agreed to withdraw its drug from the market, and Tercica-Genentech agreed to forgo a $6 million penalty payment. Tercica climbed 92 cents to $5.68.
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