Kara Ivison – Westside News https://westsidenewsny.com Your Hometown News Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:01:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://westsidenewsny.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/WSN2.jpg Kara Ivison – Westside News https://westsidenewsny.com 32 32 Pesticide Applicator Training Course Offered In-Person & Online https://westsidenewsny.com/business/2026-01-16/pesticide-applicator-training-course-offered-in-person-online/ Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:01:11 +0000 https://westsidenewsny.com/?p=111140 Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County is offering its annual New York State 30-Hour Certified Pesticide Applicator Training. The training will be held over six days between January 26 and February 9 at the Irondequoit Community Center, 450 Skyview Centre Parkway, Suite 200, Rochester. A virtual option via Zoom is also available.

This comprehensive course is designed for individuals seeking to become licensed commercial or private pesticide applicators. It covers pesticide laws, safety, mixing, calibration, and application techniques, and acts as a prerequisite for the exam to become a certified applicator in New York State. This 30-hour DEC-approved course is a pathway to taking the certification exam, which will be administered on February 13.

The course is required for lawn and landscape professionals, golf course, ornamental, turf nurseries, cemetery, commercial grounds maintenance, municipal employees, farm-owners, farm managers, and others who plan to commercially or professionally apply or supervise the use of restricted pesticides.

Registration and payment are required before the first day of class. Find more details about the course and register at https://tinyurl.com/swhveu57.

Contact Jarmila Haseler at 585-753-2565 or jh954@cornell.edu with any questions.

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