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  EVENTS

Events, dates and times are subject to change! Please call the Chapter office at (619) 225-8155 or email us at aslasd@sbcglobal.net for further information on upcoming events.

Calendar

Community Grant

Tours / Outdoors

Independent Practitioners Committee




Calendar

July 2010

7/15 Executive Committee Meeting. – Schmidt Design Group. 6 p.m.

7/302011 Executive Committee Ballots Due by 5PM –?

TBA Chapter Past Presidents Breakfast ?

August 2010

8/1 Community Grant Application Deadline by 5 PM –The American Society of Landscape Architects - San Diego Chapter cordially invites you to apply for the 2011-$5,000 "ASLA San Diego Community Grant." In order for the profession of landscape architecture to make its full contribution to the San Diego region, the accessibility and understanding of the profession must be made known to the public at-large. This Grant is intended to educate and enhance community awareness of the profession of landscape architecture as well as to provide a benefit to the community or environment. The grant may cover or contribute toward the cost of practical work, capital investment, or professional services. Grant packages must be postmarked by August 1. Grant guidelines and application may also be requested in a word document by emailing ASLASD@sbcglobal.net. Click here for PDF of application.

8/18 Raising the Bar: A Green Dialogue –Joint ASLA/CLCA meeting at RCP Block, 577 N. Vulcan Ave., Encinitas. 5:30 p.m. networking, 6:30 p.m.dinner, 7:00 p.m. program.

8/19 Executive Committee Meeting. – David Reed Landscape Architects. 6 p.m

September 2010

9/10-13 - ASLA National Convention –Washington DC .

9/16 - Executive Committee Meeting –The Lightfoot Planning Group 6 p.m.

9/17 - ASLA SD Chapter Golf Tournament –Rancho Bernardo Inn, 12:30 p.m. shotgun start. Download flyer.

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Community Grant

8/1 2011 SDASLA Community Grant Applications Due – The American Society of Landscape Architects - San Diego Chapter cordially invites you to apply for the 2011-$5,000 "ASLA San Diego Community Grant." In order for the profession of landscape architecture to make its full contribution to the San Diego region, the accessibility and understanding of the profession must be made known to the public at-large. This Grant is intended to educate and enhance community awareness of the profession of landscape architecture as well as to provide a benefit to the community or environment. The grant may cover or contribute toward the cost of practical work, capital investment, or professional services. Grant packages must be postmarked by August 1. Grant guidelines and application may also be requested in a word document by emailing ASLASD@sbcglobal.net. Click here for PDF of application.


Tours / Outdoors
• Sat/Sun Landscape Design, Garden Tour

Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College, 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon. Design: 8 am-12 pm Sat. Tour: 10:30 am Sat., 1:30 pm Sun. Free. For info call (619) 660-0614 ext. 10 or visit www.thegarden.org.

• Sat. San Diego Botanic Garden Guided Tours

10:30 am every Saturday; meet at the Visitors Center, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas. Free with garden admission of $6 - 12. For info call (760) 436-3036 or visit www.sdbgarden.org

• Tue-Fri Huntington Botanical Gardens Guided Tour

10:30 am. A 45-minute walking tour of the gardens. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. $24 per person. For reservations call (626) 405-2126 or visit www.huntington.org.

• Daily Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden

About 1-1/2 hour drive from San Diego in Clarement on N. College Avenue, north of Foothill Blvd. & east of Indian Hill Blvd. Call (909) 625-8767 or visit www.rsabg.org.

• Daily Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Enjoy grasslands, vernal pools and Engelmann oak woodlands. Adults $2, children over 12 $1. Docent-led nature walks first Saturday of the month (Nov.-Feb.) every Saturday (Mar.-May). For info call (909) 677-6951 or click here.

• Daily Big Morongo Canyon Preserve

Open daily 7:30 am to sunset. Cottonwoods and willows in the high desert. For info call (760) 363-7190 or visit www.bigmorongo.org

• Daily Coachella Valley Preserve

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Sand dunes, mesas, palm oases. Visitor Center open daily in winter, 8 am-5 pm. For info call (760) 343-1234 or visit www.coachellavalleypreserve.org/.

• Anytime Dos Palmas Oasis

Open daily sunrise to sunset. Low-elevation desert habitat at the base of the Salton Sea. For info call (760) 343-1234 or click here.

• Anytime Santa Cruz Island Preserve

Rugged scenery and unique native species. Day trips to the island. For reservations and info call Island Packers at (805) 642-1393 or click here.

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Committees

Independent Practitioners Committee

Working on your own? Need to bounce an idea off someone besides your pet or spouse? Need a book on something special, but don’t want to spend the money on it right now? Have an issue with your practice that you need some advice on? Want to discuss and share issues, ideas, and gain support from your peers in a supportive group setting?

The San Diego Chapter of ASLA is forming an Independent Practictioners Committeee (IPC) to combine resources (i.e. experience, expertise and physical resources) that will benefit the individual group members. The IPC will meet or connect via email/conference call to cover topics such as business development (marketing), technical issues, design, client issues, insurance, employees and project issues. Depending on the group interests, the group could be used as a “pooling of resources”. These shared resources would be available to each group member upon agreement of each member.

The committee is open to ASLA members that are practicing as individuals or up to a three person firm. The IPC committee will be structured with a chairperson to schedule and start the meetings. Committee members will provide topics of interest and the Chairperson will schedule topics into the committee calendar. The committee will determine the actual structure of meetings that best fits its members. Meetings could be structured as round table or workshops and coordinated to not conflict with ASLA Chapter events/programs.

An initial meet and greet was held on April 3 to discuss the formation guidelines and gauge member interest. If you are interested in joining the IPC send your contact information to John H. McGee, Jr. ASLA IPC Committee Chairman at john@mcgeela.com

 

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