“Mapping Future Success With Strategic Planning”
City of Kennewick
APWA Fall Conference 2009
October 20 – 23, 2009
Held at The Three Rivers
Convention Center located at
7016 W. Grandridge
Blvd.
APWA Web Site
Register Information
http://www.apwa-wa.org/news/conferences/fall.htm
Hotel Accommodations Golf Tournament (must sign up separately)
Wine Tour (pay with
registration) Pre-Conference Workshop
Community Service Activity Thursday Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Fun Run/Walk (pay with registration) Thursday Night Entertainment
Wednesday LuncheonKeynote Speaker Wednesday Night Mardi Gras
Information and Contacts
Driving Directions: http://maps.yahoo.com/
The City of Kennewick welcomes you to the Fall 2009 American Public Works Association Conference, October 20 through October 23, 2009. From the magnificent new convention center, along the majestic banks of the mighty Columbia River, to the challenging golf courses and beautiful parks, we hope you will enjoy your visit to our fair city.
In addition to the conference sessions, highlights include the following:
Keynote Speaker, Albert Mensah
Date: Wednesday, October 21st Luncheon
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Rising from his humble beginnings in Ghana, Africa, Albert Mensah has become one of the world’s leading motivational speakers. A child of one of the world’s most impoverished nations, Albert grew up within a village of 200 residents without electricity, plumbing or shoes. Mensah was inspired to immigrate to the United States after seeing his first movie, which included cars for every driver and shoes for every foot. He saw an opportunity to live a better life and he found his way to this country through his scholastic ability and a vision he held since childhood.
He graduated from Western Maryland College and went on to become a successful business owner. Recognizing that his life story could provide inspiration for others to achieve their goals and face challenges, he began to focus on his current path as a widely sought after and internationally recognized speaker, author and humanitarian.
Albert is the author of two best selling self-help books, “When the Drumbeat Changes Dance a Different Dance”, and “OK Means Opportunity Knocking”. Albert lives with his family in Dallas and visits Ghana annually, where he supports an orphanage and clothes residents in his home village. You will love his humor and enthusiasm for life.
Join us on Wednesday night at the Convention Center for an evening of Mardi Gras excitement, courtesy of all of our Exhibitors. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the evening continues until the last beads are thrown or 10 p.m. (whichever comes first). Come enjoy the authentic Mardi Gras fare and music. For your enjoyment, the Sidewalk Stompers will provide authentic rag time jazz. Wear your gold, green and purple, collect beads from the Exhibitors, find the real “gold” coin, watch the crowning of the King and Queen, and just party the night away!
You won’t want to miss this event!
Thursday Luncheon Keynote Speaker, Bruce Bjornstad
http://agg.pnl.gov/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=173
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Bruce is a washington State Licensed Geologist and Hydrogeologist working for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, with the Applied Geology and Geochemistry Group. He will be speaking about the Great Floods and their impact on the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of "On The Trail of the Ice Age Floods: A Geological Field guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin".
You can check out his book at:
http://www.keokeebooks.com/IceAgeFloods.html
Pre-Conference Workshop
Local and Road Improvement
Districts
Date: Tuesday,
October 20th
Time: 9:00
a.m to 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $75
(See main
conference page for link to registration form)
ACTIVITIES
Golf Tournament
Golf Tournament,
Tuesday – October 20, 2009
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. (Dinner after)
Cost: $69
per person (includes green fees, cart, range balls, boxed lunch, and dinner)
(Must pay
separately by check)
Location: Canyon
Lakes Golf Course, 3700 W. Canyon Lakes Dr., Kennewick, WA
Canyon Lakes is rated 4 ½ Stars by Golf Digest and is the highest rated golf course in the Tri-Cities and tied as the highest in Washington State. Hole #12 is famous for being the largest green in the Pacific Northwest and Hole #9 was selected as one of the Northwest’s Dream 18 holes. Known for its year round playability, the 18-hole, 72-par course is built to rigid tournament caliber specifications. Many water traps, sand traps and large fast greens provide a challenge. Expect to use all of the clubs in the bag. Check out the website listed above.
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Shotgun
Start Time is 12:30 p.m. You will be assigned a tee block when you check in.
Please plan to be checked in before 12:00 noon.
·
Format: Four person rainbow scramble
·
Over
$1,500 in prizes
·
Closest
to the pin and longest drive contests
·
Salmon
and prime rib barbecue buffet dinner will be provided following the golf
tournament
To register: Print out and complete the golf registration form. To assure a spot for this event, payment and registration must be received before October 9, 2009.
Mail golf
registration form and check to the following address:
2009 Fall APWA Conference Registration
City of Kennewick
P.O. Box 6108
Kennewick, WA 99336
ATTN: Bruce Beauchene
Hole Sponsors: If you are interested in being a hole or other golf sponsor or donating golf prizes, please contact Bruce Beauchene.
Tournament contact:
Bruce Beauchene
City of Kennewick
(509) 585-4289
bruce.beauchene@ci.kennewick.wa.us
Wine
Tasting Tour
Tuesday, October 20th
9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
We welcome you to spend a wonderful day touring award-winning Red Mountain wineries with locally renowned wine educator, Linda Moran. Enjoy reserve tasting and lunch while visiting many of the Tri-Cities beautiful winery facilities. Transportation and lunch will be provided
Cost: $25.00 per person (Sign up with the registration)
Community Service Activity
Tree Planting
Wednesday, October 21st
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: To be announced
Cost: Free (Participants will receive a pair of leather gloves)
Transportation will be provided from the Kennewick Red Lion Hotel
We want you…..to get your hands a little dirty and help plant trees at a Kennewick Park, as part of a community service activity, sponsored by your host, the City of Kennewick. Join your chapter officers and board members in the challenge. Kennewick is proud to be a “Tree City USA” city.
Wednesday, October
21, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $10.00 per
person (includes technical t-shirt)
(Sign up with registration)
Participants of the fun run/walk can choose to race against the field and the clock in a timed 5K race with mile markers through Kennewick’s beautiful Columbia Park or can do this course at your leisure. Numbered tags will be provided to identify those that are entered in the race and you’ll be sent off ahead of the rest of the participants so we can get your time recorded at the finish line. Something special will be awarded to the male and female overall race winners.
Those who need bus transportation to the event will need to meet at the APWA registration desk at 5:00 p.m. or at the front door of the Kennewick Red Lion Hotel at 5:10 p.m.
To assure a technical t-shirt, payment and registration must be received before October 9, 2009.
Where: Columbia Park
at north end of Edison Street near the Columbia River
Hilton Garden Inn Red
Lion Hotel
701 North Young
Street 1101
N. Columbia Center Blvd.
Kennewick, WA 99336 Kennewick,
WA 99336
(509) 735-4600 (509)
783-0611
When booking on-line, use Code 0000947300
www.HiltonGardenInn.com www.RedLion.rdln.com
Comfort Inn Fairfield
Inn
7801 W. Quinault Ave. 7809
W. Quinault Ave.
Kennewick, WA Kennewick,
WA 99336
(509) 783-8396 (509)
783-2164
www.ComfortInn.com www.Marriott.com\kwcfi
Quality Inn
7901 W. Quinault Ave.
Kennewick, WA
(509) 735-6100
An Evening
with David Crowe
Thursday night banquet
www.davidcrowe.com
Thursday, October 22, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
David Crowe is a veteran
of US stage and it shows. He has the
crowd eating out of the palm of his hand from the start, as he produces a show
which manages to blend pratfalls and physical idiocy with acerbic and erudite dissections
of politics and religion. An
intelligent, liberal comic from Seattle, Crow seems equally at home doing
one-liners as complex highbrow routines about Shakespeare with a nerdy charisma
that is utterly captivating. With barely
a wasted breath, there is so much quality material in this show it’s hard to
single anything out but Crowe’s skit on Americans being gasoholics,
up there with the best routines in comedy.
Doug
Johnstone
Sunday
Herald Edinburgh
Information and Contacts
Conference information will be sent to APWA members, exhibitors and vendors in September. For more detailed information, contact the following individuals:
- Vendors and Exhibitors
Name Kelly Robinson
Phone: (206) 431-2384
E-mail: kelly.robinson@abam.com
- Conference Chair
Pat Everham, City of Kennewick
Phone: (509)585-4413
E-mail: pat.everham@ci.kennewick.wa.us
- Registration
Holly Stewart
Municipal Research and Services. Center of Washington
Phone: 206-625-1300
E-mail hstewart@mrsc.org
