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Let’s Have A Great 2019!
Greetings and salutations! Hopefully, everyone had a very Merry Christmas and has had a great start to 2019. Before we get too far along, I cannot help but think about the end of 2018, and what a great success the Deep South Trade Show has been. A huge thanks to all of our vendors that sponsor it, as well as all of the other Alabama Turfgrass Association Events. ATA could not do the things that it does without you.
Speaking of our sponsors, there was a decent turn out this year for the clay shooting at Lower Wetumpka in December. This event showed our sponsors a little love before the end of the year. We hope we can continue to grow this event in the coming years and I would encourage everyone to attend.
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The ATA Board met in early December for our yearly planning session, and we are very excited about the calendar of events for the coming year. The Road Shows are highly popular and concluded with the last one in Birmingham on February 27th. A special thanks to Dr. Dave Han, Dr. Jim Jacobi, and Melanie Bonds for getting the schedule of speakers together.
The Lawn and Landscape Workshop in Decatur at the Ingalls Center will have taken place by the time you receive this publication. This is a great program which takes place once every two years. Thank you to Heath Puckett, CGCS and Paul Floyd for allowing us to use one of their facilities. After that, all of our members that are golfers need to be at FarmLinks on March 25th for the Poa Annua. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate as we try to raise money for our friends in Turf Research.
We have tried a fishing tournament in the late summer/fall for the Mole Cricket Classic but it has not worked the previous two years. We have some ideas for a change to this event and will keep you posted on what those changes will be for 2019.
Thank you to the Board for your dedication to the ATA and mostly for having to put up with me for a year as President. Again, please thank our sponsors for all that they do when you see them or, better yet, use them for your purchases. A reminder, everyone should be preparing for the weather to change to spring temperatures, now let’s have a great 2019.
Kim Byram
2019 ATA President
Kim Byram
