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1.
Happy New Year!!!!
The Board of Directors and Staff of PNWGFA would like to wish you
and your family a prosperous and Happy New
Year!
2. 41st Annual Warehousemen's Conference --
February 21-22, 2008:
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List of Sponsors
Our planning committee has
already been hard at work securing FABULOUS Sponsorships for the
Welcome Reception and Dinner Banquet. Thank you very much to all
the GENEROUS
Companies who continue to support this worthwhile event! If
you would like to be a sponsor, it's not too late, call the office
today!
NEW...We
also have two Sponsors for the Spouse Event: H&S Services
and the Davenport Hotel have both sponsored some Door Prizes for this
event. We have never had sponsors for the Spouse Event before,
so this is a wonderful addition! Thank you very much for the
wonderful Spa Treatments, I'm sure the lucky winners will enjoy them!
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Registration
Form & Information
Follow this link for the Registration
Form and Information on the Event.
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Room
Block & Hotel Information -- Block ENDS Monday, January 21, 2008
The
Davenport Hotel
Spokane, Washington
For Reservations (800) 899-1482
Room Rates - $129/night + tax
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Topics
& Speakers
The tentative Topics and Speakers are listed below, the full
Agenda will be published by Friday, January 18th. We will start
each day at 9:00am. Friday we will finish up the program by
4:00pm and the Trade Show Vendors can break down and head home after
lunch (noon).
Phosphine
Fumigation Update - George Hunt, Pestcon Systems
Organic Foods: Reality vs. Perception - Dr. Alan Felsot, WSU
Seed Treatment Technology - Nate Andersen, Bayer Crop Science
Pest Control through Field Burning - Sherm Takatori, ID Dept. of Ag
World of Seed Treating - Doug Deschamp, Syngenta
Stored Grain Insect Management - Bob Johnston, Wilbur-Ellis Company
Rodent Control/Honta Virus - Jeff Weier, Sprague Pest Solutions
Wheat Marketing Issues - Dave Shelton, Wheat Marketing Center
Effects of Meth on Agriculture - Bill Hickman, Colfax Chief of
Police
Future Trends of Wheat & Barley - Steve Lyons, WSU
Trucking Grain - Liz Tate & Thomas Woods, Transportation Safety
Services
Panel on Manlifts - John Cranor, Keith Becker & Marty Hughes
There are more in the works, I will have the final information out
soon!
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BIG
THANKS to the following people and the companies they work for,
they put in a lot of work during the year and at the event itself.
Warehousemen's
Planning Committee:
Mike
Dunlap -
Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC - Chairman
Keith Becker - Whitman County Growers
John Cranor - Northwest Grain Growers
Marty Hughes - H&S Services
George Johnstone - St. John Grain Growers
3. Honorary Members Pledge Drive:
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New Year...New Budget...Please help sponsor the Honorary Members Program
Now that we have started a New Year, many of you are working with
a new Budget, the Honorary Members Program is a worthwhile
place to put some of that money! We will be continuing the pledge drive
for a few more months. Thanks so much!
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Notice From our President
About the Pledge Drive - Bud Riedner Writes
The Pacific Northwest Grain & Feed Association is proud to
announce the formation of "The PNWGFA Honored Alumni
Fund". This fund is being established to assist Honored
Alumni in attending our Annual June Convention. The Board of
Directors has authorized a Pledge Drive to establish
this fund. All contributions will be recognized at the 91st
Annual June Convention in Chelan, Washington and noted in the 2009
PNWGFA Annual Directory.
The
following pledge levels will apply:
$2,500.00 & Up............................Platinum
$1,500.00 - $2,499.99...........................Gold
$500.00 - $1,499.99.............................Silver
$200.00 - $499.99..............................Bronze
The
PNWGFA Board of Directors are confident that our current membership
will want to establish this find and our goal is $25,000. Please
give generously as a tribute to our past membership!
Regards,
Bud Riedner, 2007/2008 PNWGFA President
Kalama Export Company, LLC
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Current Sponsors of the Honorary Members Program:
Platinum
Northwest Grain Growers, Inc.
Gold
Ritzville Warehouse Company
Silver
Evans Grain, Feed & Seed Company
The Haskins Company
Laughlin Cartrell, Inc.
Tidewater Barge Lines
Thank
you very much for these generous sponsorships!!!
4. Kerry
Kennedy Will Be Missed
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After
a year long battle with a brain tumor, Kerry Kennedy passed away
on December 31, 2007, surrounded by his family.
Kerry was a
regular at our Warehousemen's Conference and a friend to all, he
will be greatly missed.
Follow this
link for the Obituary
in the Lewiston Tribune. |
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