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Vol. 17 Issue 5
CNLA Hires
Landscape Priorities Manager
Following an exhaustive search of many qualified candidates, the CNLA hiring committee (comprised of industry volunteers and staff) announced that the Landscape Sector Priorities Specialist has been hired as a part of the CNLA team. Liz Klose will be responsible for a broad range of issues which include HR training and development, Standards of Practice, Professional Development and accountability on public projects, as well the opportunities the landscape sector may be able to take advantage of: areas such as Brown Field Site developments, Water Conservation Measures, and Energy Efficient Design. She will report directly to the Landscape Committee of CNLA, who will provide the focus and framework for the initiatives she is mandated to carry out. Liz Klose comes to us from the Niagara
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Parks Commission School of Horticulture. Liz joined the faculty at the School of Horticulture and Botanical Gardens as an instructor and garden curator in 1991. She is the Past chair of the Bursary and Scholarship Selection Committee, the Present chair of the Ontario Parks Association Foundation, and a member of the Perennial Plant Association, the Herb Society of America, the Ontario Horticulture Education Council, Landscape Ontario, the Professional Landcare Network, and the Alumni Association of the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture Foundation. She received the 2006 College Horticulture Educator of the Year Award during Landscape Ontario Awards of Landscape Excellence. The awards program was held during Landscape Ontario’s Congress tradeshow – held in • • • •
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January 2007 in Toronto. The award was in recognition of Klose’s many years of support of horticulture at the college level, her involvement with the Ontario Horticulture Education Council and with Landscape Ontario, and her work in helping initiate, with school colleagues, the first college Certified Horticultural Technician Test at NPC. Co-author of two gardening books, Roses for Ontario and Best Garden Plants for Ontario, Klose is also a regular contributor to print media. She is a frequent guest speaker at schools and industry associations, and for local, provincial and international garden and horticultural societies.
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