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October 13,
2008 KAFMO Cup Golf Tournament
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Iron Valley Golf Club
near Lebanon, Pa
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Four man scramble
format with an optional skins competition
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10:00 a.m. registration
with a 11:00 a.m. shotgun start
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Lunch, dinner and
drinks included
2008
KAFMO Cup brochure
12th Annual
KAFMO/PRPS/STMA/PSU Athletic Field Conference
12th
Annual Athletic Field Conference Recap
KAFMO’s 12th
Annual Athletic Field Conference was held on February 15, 2008 in
association with the Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks Society, the Sports
Turf Managers Association and
Penn
State
University
. Fifty exhibitors and 29
sponsors promoted their products and services to the 300 in attendance.
Seminar topics included new control products, synthetic fields,
records keeping and turf maintenance on high traffic fields.
Dr. Dave Minner,
Iowa
State
University
; Kim Heck, STMA; Marty Campfield, NSIA; Dr. Pete Landschoot and Dr. Andy
McNitt,
Penn
State
, were presenters.
The awards program was highlighted by the presentation of the Fowler
Founders Award to Ben Burns, Hummer Turfgrass Systems.
Mr. Burns has been involved in the site design and construction of
many of the athletic facilities in
Pennsylvania
. He served on the KAFMO board
of directors and has supported KAFMO as an exhibitor, sponsor, event
volunteer and presenter.
Waddington/Harper
Scholarship recipients were Robert Galdieri from
Delaware
Valley
College
and Andre Aymar and Mitch Tracey from
Penn
State
University
. Donations for research were
presented to The Foundation for Safer Athletic Field Environments
($1,000), the Pennsylvania Turfgrass Research Fund, Inc. ($1,000) and the
Pennsylvania Turfgrass Council ($4,000) for sports turf research at
Penn
State
University
. Three STMA Student Challenge
teams from
Penn
State
each received $500 to help with travel expenses and $1,500 was donated to
the Penn State Cooperative Extension for a Community Baseball Field
Assessment study.
The 13th Annual
Athletic Field Conference is tentatively set for Friday, February 13, 2009
at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey.
Have a
sports turf related question?
Email KAFMO@aol.com
the question and it will be answered by a KAFMO member who has the
experience to provide the answer.
KAFMO
Vendor Resource Guide
Looking for sports
turf products or services? Check out the Vendor Resource Guide for
PA suppliers.
KAFMO
Vendor Resource Guide
Natural vs. Synthetic Fields
Are you considering replacing a natural turfgrass athletic field with a synthetic field? A
new guide is available to help you with the decision making process
.
 A Guide to
Synthetic and Natural Turfgrass for Sports Fields Selection, Construction and Maintenance
Considerations is available to
be downloaded from our site.
The guide was assembled by
professionals in the sports turf industry to accurately answer many of the common
questions that arise when comparing natural vs. synthetic athletic field construction and
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