Association News: March 2000

The Professional Grounds Management Society announced its officers for 2000: Kevin O’Donnell, president; George Van Haasteren, first vice president; Matt Vehr, second vice president; Joseph Murphy, treasurer and Randall Willis, past president.

Richard Hurley received the 1999 New Jersey Turfgrass Association Hall of Fame Award. The award is presented annually and recognizes a continuing lifetime commitment of dedication, service and achievements contributing to the advancement of New Jersey’s turfgrass industry.

The Associated Landscape Contractors of America presented its Annual Exterior Environmental Improvement Judges’ Award of 1999 to Hendrikus Schraven Landscape Construction & Design of Issaquah, Wash., for the Nelson residence, a residential design/build project near Seattle, Wash. This award is presented to one outstanding project from the annual ALCA Exterior Environmental Improvement Awards program that merits special recognition and honor. The project involved a new construction site on a dramatic shoreline with a steep 130-foot slope prone to severe erosion and landslides.

The Evergreen Foundation contributed $15,000 to North Carolina State University’s libraries to help complete work on the Greenways Archive – a depository of information about the history and development of greenways. Greenways are green spaces that connect parks and trails and provide wildlife habitat, as well as walking and biking trails.