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Sunday, November 3, 2019 4:30 p.m. Board of Directors Meeting Dahlia Room, MirabeauPark Hotel Monday, November 4, 2019 MirabeauPark Hotel & Convention Center: 7:30 a.m. Registration desk is open and a continental breakfast is available co-sponsored by DESERT GREEN TURF (TWO additional sponsor-ships available)

8:15 – 10:30 a.m. “How to Rethink Your Budgeting Process to Get What You Need” Chris Carson, Echo Lake Country Club, Westfield, New Jersey and Faculty Member of Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management Program (Break included during presentation) 9:30 – 1:30 p.m. Trade Show set-up Please be ready to show by 1:30 p.m. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. “Managing Microdochium Patch on Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens Using Rolling, Biological Control Products, Iron Sulfate, Phosphorous Acid, Sulfur, and Mineral Oil” The presentation will include the results of multiple studies spanning over the past seven years looking at how to manage Microdochium patch in the absence of traditional fungicides on annual bluegrass putting greens in the cool-humid regions of the Pacific Northwest.

Clint Mattox, Department of Horticulture Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Lunch sponsored by 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. “The Power of Forward Tees” Larry Gilhuly, Director, USGA Green Section, Northwest Region . 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Break co-sponsored by HELENA AGRI-ENTERPRISES and RIDGETOP GOLF (one additional sponsorship is available)

1:45 – 2:40 p.m. Presentation of The William Griffith Distinguished Service Award, Business Meeting and Election of Officers/Board of Directors – President, Jeremiah Farmer, presiding. Nominating Chairman, Jennifer Camp, offers the following slate of officers for your considera-tion: President: Jeremiah Farmer, Hayden Lake Country Club, Hayden Lake, Wash.; Vice-President: Mike Bednar, Palouse Ridge Golf Club, Pullman, Wash.; Secretary/ Treasurer: Geoff Haynes, Galena Ridge Golf Club, Kellogg, Idaho /// Four positions open as follows: Directors - (2) Three-year position, (1) Two-year position Mike Grilley, The Links, Post Falls, Idaho; Shane Hughes, Zintel Creek Golf Club, Kennewick, Wash.; Mike Kingsley, MeadowWood Golf Course, Liberty Lake, Wash.; Allied Director (and co-chair of Auction for Rounds) (1) Three-year position, Jake Leiser, Simplot Partners

2:45 – 3:45 p.m. “Managing Anthracnose on Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens” This presentation will discuss university research focusing on cultural and chemical options for suppressing anthracnose on annual bluegrass putting greens. A recent Oregon State University study focusing on the influence of a soil surfactant to suppress anthracnose on an annual bluegrass putting green will also be

included. Clint Mattox, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

3:45 – 6:30 p.m. Trade Show - Meet the leading suppliers and distributors of the region as they showcase their products and services! They are here to help you succeed, and to support the association. FREE: food and beverages. PRIZES! Limited to registrants (family of registrants welcome). (NOTE - tear down is Tuesday morning - go and enjoy the evening!) Sponsorships available!

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Tuesday, November 5, 2019 MirabeauPark Hotel & Convention Center: 7:00 - 10:00 a.m. Trade Show Teardown 7:30 a.m. Registration desk is open and continental breakfast available co-sponsored by SIMPLOT PARTNERS (two additional sponsor-ships are available)

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. “Improve Your Chances of Making the Step to Superintendent!” Chris Carson, Echo Lake Country Club, Westfield, New Jersey and Faculty Member of Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management Program 9:05 - 9:25 a.m. “Rain Bird’s IC System” (an allied partner presentation) Nick Newman, Horizon Distributors Inc., Hayden, Idaho continued

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Fall Meeting &

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November 4 & 5, 2019

MaribeauPark Hotel

& Convention Center, Spokane Valley, Wash.

Hotel reservations due: October 6

Early Registration Discount Ends: October 22

Trade Show Discount Ends: October 22

Stewards citizen science water quality monitoring pro-gram, and co-leads Idaho Project WET (Water Education for Teachers). He has worked with the University of Idaho since Fall 2007. Ekins earned a bachelor's in Natural Resource Management from Western Carolina U., and a master’s in Natural Resource Planning from U. Oregon. He was a ranger in three National Parks, worked in Colorado and Oregon’s resort industry, spent two Austral summers on a research base in Antarctica, and worked in wetland restoration for watershed councils in Oregon and Idaho. Before transferring to the U-Idaho Extension Faculty, Ekins directed U-Idaho’s Service-Learning and Internships program. In his spare time, he is pursuing a PhD in Conservation Social Sciences in social-systems resilience; he also canoes, tele-skis, runs, and backpacks with his dogs, and will play a round of golf from time to time.

Larry Gilhuly, Director, USGA Green Section, Northwest Region, will complete his 36th and last year with the USGA Green Section in 2019. An Evans Scholar graduate of Washington State University in 1975 he spent time as the assistant superintendent with a brief stint as the superintendent at Seattle Golf Club until 1983 when he started his tenure with the USGA Green Section. In retire-ment, Gilhuly will be focusing on the topics of forward tees and resource management while playing a little more golf.

Clint Mattox graduated from Purdue University in Indiana with a turfgrass science degree in 2000, and has been working in the turfgrass industry since that time. From 2000 until 2012, Mattox worked overseas, primarily in Europe, where he was an assistant superintendent in Berlin, head greenkeeper at Paris Disneyland, and finally grow-in and maintenance superintendent at the Arnold Palmer designed Vignoly golf course near Paris. In 2013, he began graduate studies at Oregon State University focusing on managing turfgrass diseases in the absence of fungicides. Mattox finished a Master of Science degree in Horticulture in September 2015 and is currently working towards a doctorate at Oregon State University majoring in Horticulture with a minor in Botany and Plant Pathology.

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Chris Carson has been the golf course superintendent at Echo Lake Country Club in Westfield, New Jersey, for over 30 years. During his tenure, a complete master plan rebuild of the course has been completed, two USGA Championships have been held and 11 assistants have moved on to become superintendents. Carson has served in leadership roles on many local and regional associa-tions, and has been president of GCSANJ, NJTA, the TriState Turf Research Foundation and more. Since 2001, Carson has been teaching budgeting & planning and pro-fessional development in the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management Program. He is an accomplished writer, twice winning GCSAA's Leo Feser Award for best super-intendent-written article published in Golf Course Management. Carson is much in demand as a conference and seminar speaker for GIS and many regional and local superintendent associations.

James Patrick (Jim) Ekins is the Water Educator for U-Idaho Extension. He develops non-formal education programs based on the best available science to all parts of the community. Ekins runs the IDAH2O Master Water

9:25 - 9:45 a.m. Break 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. “Common Surface Water Quality Issues and Solutions” Jim Ekins, Area Water Educator, U-Idaho Extension Northern District, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

10:45 - 11:45 a.m. “35 Years of Golf Course Maintenance” Larry Gilhuly, Director, USGA Green Section, Northwest Region 11:45 - 12:45 p.m. Lunch sponsored by: 12:45 - 2:30 p.m. “Epic Fails” A Panel Discussion moderated by Kevin Hicks Panel Participants TBA

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