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2014 West Coast Sportsfield Training Day August 20th Cloverdale Athletic Park - Attendee Information and Registration Form

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Surrey Parks, in conjunction with the WCTA, is hosting the “2014 West Coast Sportsfield Training Day and Landscape Rodeo” to be held Wednesday, August 20th in Surrey BC.

This event is a one day combination of a morning education session, hands on field maintenance demonstrations and afternoon “Fun” landscape competitions among attendees. The morning classroom presentation will take place at the Cloverdale Recreation Centre (6188 - 176th Street, Surrey BC). The remainder of the day’s activities will be located at Cloverdale Athletic Park (6330 168th Street, Surrey BC).

Two Events Being Planned for August

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With the summer upon us, members of the Western Canada Turfgrass Association are in the process of planning two separate events, one in BC and one in Alberta, both set to take place the third week of August.

MLB Heads West, Connects With WCTA

By Jerry Rousseau

Out of left field, Murray Cook, Major League Baseball’s Field and Ballpark consultant, sent me an email in early May to let the WCTA know about a three-stop educational series MLB was planning for western Canada the week of May 12th.

First Green Presented by the WCTA (Video)

June 24, 2014

This just posted. WCTA presents the First Green - a video from the May 5th Canadian launch of 'Links as Labs' at the Vancouver Golf Club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mc_2IMUWH8

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"Links to Labs" - First Green Program Gets Started at Vancouver Golf Club

by Jerry Rousseau

While speaking at the Pacific Northwest Golf Alliance Summit in Seattle in early March, Trevor Smith, Western Canada Turfgrass Association (WCTA) President, Stan Kazymerchyk, Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) Turf Management instructor and I were approached by Karen Armstead, Executive Director of the First Green Foundation, an organization that had developed a program where school aged children are taught science, math and environmental stewardship using golf courses as the classroom and golf course superintendents as the teachers.

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2014 West Coast Sportsfield Training Day August 20th Cloverdale Athletic Park - Attendee Information and Registration Form

Two Events Being Planned for August

MLB Heads West, Connects With WCTA

First Green Presented by the WCTA (Video)

"Links to Labs" - First Green Program Gets Started at Vancouver Golf Club

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