It’s that time of year. TOCA has sent by e-mail its 2010 Membership Renewal forms. If there is more than one TOCA member in your company, one person from the group will receive the e-mail. He/she should pass the Membership Application form to the other members in the company who want to renew their membership. Dues for the first member are $125. Dues for each additional member from the same company are $75 each, this way your company can save $50 per person by renewing as a group.
We ask that you contact the TOCA office by October 15, 2009, of any changes to your contact information so we can get the corrections into the new membership directory. Otherwise your listing will remain the same as last year. Please return the Membership Application with your payment.
We look forward to you renewing your membership. We also hope you will ask others in your office to join TOCA who haven’t heard of us.
Please don’t hesitate to call the TOCA office with questions about your membership. Send inquiries to:
Kathy Heyda
Membership Director
TOCA
120 W. Main St.
P. O. Box 156
New Prague, MN 56071
Office: 952-758-6340
Fax: 952-758-5813
Email: toca@gardnerandgardnercommunications.com
October 29-31, 2009
Green Industry & Equipment EXPO (GIE+EXPO)
Kentucky Exposition Center
Louisville, KY
October 30, 2009
TOCA Breakfast Reception
Sponsors:
Bayer Environmental Science,
Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)/PLANET
7 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. - Breakfast
7:45 a.m. to 9 a.m. – Bayer media conference
Kentucky Exposition Center, Press Center Room C112
Louisville, KY
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February 10, 2010
Golf Industry Show (GIS)
GCSAA Breakfast Reception
7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
San Diego, CA
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March 1, 2010
Environmental Communicator of the Year application deadline
March 1, 2010
TOCA Scholarship application deadline
March 1, 2010
TOCA Communications Contest entries deadline
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May 5-7, 2010
21st annual meeting
The Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort
Tucson, AZ
As always at this time of year, TOCA begins its search for the next Environmental Communicator of the Year. Nominations for the 2010 winner are now being accepted. The award, sponsored by Project EverGreen, may be given to anyone in the Green Industry. It is presented each year at TOCA’s annual meeting and will be awarded for the 12th time in May 2010 in Tucson.
Drs. Larry Stowell and Wendy Gelernter of PACE Turf were named the 2009 TOCA Environmental Communicators of the Year; the association’s eleventh recipients.
Perhaps you know of some deserving student currently pursuing a career in Green Industry communications. A niece or nephew? The kid down the block who used to mow your lawn but now studies marketing and landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota? Maybe it’s your intern, the one answering your phone as you read this very sentence. How about nominating him or her for a TOCA scholarship?
The TOCA Board of Directors will award one $2,500, fall semester scholarship (2010-2011 academic year) to an undergraduate college student pursuing a career in Green Industry communications. To qualify, students must major or minor in technical communications or a Green Industry related field such as horticulture, plant sciences, botany, agronomy, plant pathology, etc. The applicant also must demonstrate an interest in using this course of study in the field of communications.
Jennie Love was named the 2009 TOCA Scholarship Winner.
Detailed information and applications are available at www.toca.org/awards.html. Deadline is March 1, 2010, but it’s never too soon to identify, encourage and reward deserving students in the field. Or on the lawn.
