Ken Evans will retire as president of the Arizona Farm Bureau at the state convention on Nov. 7. He served 11 years. Mr. Evans became president of Farm Bureau in 1992. During his tenure as president, the Farm Bureau has achieved record membership, has won awards from American Farm Bureau Federation and most recently built and moved into a new state headquarters. Mr. Evans has also been a member of the American Farm Bureau Board of Directors and served on its executive committee from 1995 to 1999. He is the president of the Western Agricultural Insurance Company and serves on the boards of directors of Farm Bureau Bank and Farm Bureau Financial Services. He has worked in agriculture at all levels, having spent time as a migrant farm worker, a farm foreman, a labor supervisor, a citrus manager, a corporate farm general manager and is a farm and ranch owner. Mr. Evans grew up in Yuma and now lives in Payson. He and his wife, Linda, are the parents of four children. He raises barley, wheat, sudan and alfalfa in Yuma County and cattle in Gila County.

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Diana Creighton, president of Arizona Capitol Times, has been elected to the first board of directors of The Public Notice Resource Center. The Center, based in Arlington, Va., was created by American Court and Commercial Newpapers (ACCN) to educate the public about the value of public notices in a democracy. Preserving the role of an independent, non-governmental vehicle for public notices — such as local newspapers — is a prominent part of the Center’s mission. The group’s newly elected president, Mark W. C. Stodder, publisher of The Daily Reporter in Milwaukee, announced the election results during the organization’s recent semi-annual meeting in Memphis. “Our hope in founding the center is that it will become a primary resource not only for those publishing notices, but also for those reading them, and those making policy decisions about disseminating this invaluable information to the public,” Mr. Stodder said. Besides Ms. Creighton and Mr. Stodder, those elected to the board were: S. Richard Gard, vice president, publisher of Fulton County Daily Report, Atlanta; Sandy Macfarland III, treasurer, publisher of Chicago Daily Law Bulletin; Chris Eddings, director, publisher of The Daily Record, Baltimore; Glenda Russell, director, publisher of Court and Commercial Record, Indianapolis and Bradley Thompson, director, publisher of The Detroit Legal News. ACCN is the professional organization of court, legal and commercial newspapers.

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The Phoenix Zoo has announced five new members to its board of directors in the Arizona Zoological Society. They include: Mary S. Alexander, vice president, Pulte Homes Inc./Del Webb Corporation; Bryan Colangelo, president and general manager, Phoenix Suns; Christopher Hogan, vice president, pharmacy management, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Arizona; Derek J. Kerr, CEO of America West Airlines and Edward H. Koopman, general manager of the Mesa site, The Boeing Company. The Phoenix Zoo is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit zoological parks. Its Web site is www.phoenixzoo.org —