on June 5 from 11:30 – 1:00 at the Baton Rouge Area Foundation

1.5 FREE CEU available

Landscape Structures Learning Academy

Beyond Accessibility: A Higher Level of Inclusive Play

Attendees will learn more about the range of disabilities of playground participants and especially the rapidly growing incidence of children with autism and related spectrum disorders, and how to design playgrounds to meet their unique needs. Tips and strategies will be provided on how to make small to major changes in their play spaces to make playgrounds not just welcoming, but engaging, challenging and therapeutic.

The instructor, Steven Hare, is the Southeastern Regional Sales Manager for Landscape Structures and has 22 years of experience in the playground and landscape industry. He is a Certified Playground Safety Inspector and International Playground Contractors Association certified playground installer.

Lunch will be provided.  Please register at http://lcasla.wufoo.com/forms/r7x3q1/ so we will have enough lunches available.

For more information, please click here and here.

This is a CEU Opportunity!!!

When: March 5-7, 2012
Where: Lafayette, LA
Cost:
$30 (for all 3 days) for Public Sector, students in related fields of interest (such as LSU Landscape Architecture students), and community leaders or advocates or
$250 (for all 3 days) for Private Sector

Registration Deadline: February 27th

For more information, click here.  For registration, click here.
There is also a link on our MPO webpage at http://mpo.lafayettela.gov/designworkshop.asp with the information.

Registration is closed, but will be available at the registration desk in the Hartley/Vey Studio at the Shaw Center for the Arts on Saturday morning starting at 8:00.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!

Meeting and Awards Banquet info:
When: February 4, 2012
Where: Shaw Center/Manship Theatre, Downtown Baton Rouge
see schedule below

Meeting and Banquet Schedule: (updated to show who the great speakers will be!)

8:00                  Registration and Coffee
8:30-9:00        Welcome, Conference Overview, and Chapter Open Meeting
9:00-10:15      Technical Sessions: (1.5 credits)
-                          -Irrigation (Jim Laiche)
-                          -Exterior Lighting Options (Don Taylor)
-                          -SWPPP Demystified (Diane Baum)
10:15-10:35     Break with Refreshments and Sponsor Exhibits
10:35-11:00     Innovative Public Engagement (Janet Tharp: Kimley-Horn and
-                          Assoc.) (.5 credits)
11:05-11:55     ProPractice/Ethics (Sandy Kime: ASLA Ethics Committee) (1 credit)
12:00-1:00      Lunch (Buffet – no speakers)
1:10-2:00         New Orleans Water Management Plan (David Waggoner: Waggoner
-                          & Ball Architects) (1 credit)
2:05-2:55         Landscape Performance Series (Barbara Deutch: Landscape
-                          Architecture Foundation) (1 credit)
2:55-3:15         Break with Refreshments and Sponsor Exhibits
3:15-3:40         Downtown Baton Rouge in a Decade (Davis Rhorer: BR Downtown
-                          Development District (DDD)) (.5 credit)
3:40-5:45         Bus Tour of Projects Downtown (Davis Rhorer: BR Downtown
-                          Development District (DDD)) (2.5 credits)
- OR -
3:40 – 4:40       LARE Section A Review Session (PPI study guide included)
-                          (Instructor: Matt Mathes)
4:45 – 5:45       LARE Section B Review Session (PPI study guide included)
-                          (Instructor: Matt Mathes)

5:45                  Adjourn until Banquet
6:30                  Awards Banquet Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar) – in Sponsor Room
7:30                  2012 LCASLA Banquet and Awards Presentation

Registration link: http://lcasla.wufoo.com/forms/2012-lcasla-annual-meeting-and-awards-banquet/

Meeting and Awards Banquet info:
When: February 4, 2012
Where: Shaw Center/Manship Theatre, Downtown Baton Rouge
see schedule below

Meeting and Banquet Schedule: (updated to show who the great speakers will be!)

8:00                  Registration and Coffee
8:30-9:00        Welcome, Conference Overview, and Chapter Open Meeting
9:00-10:15      Technical Sessions: (1.5 credits)
-                          -Irrigation (Jim Laiche)
-                          -Exterior Lighting Options (Don Taylor)
-                          -SWPPP Demystified (Diane Baum)
10:15-10:35     Break with Refreshments and Sponsor Exhibits
10:35-11:00     Innovative Public Engagement (Janet Tharp: Kimley-Horn and
-                          Assoc.) (.5 credits)
11:05-11:55     ProPractice/Ethics (Sandy Kime: ASLA Ethics Committee) (1 credit)
12:00-1:00      Lunch (Buffet – no speakers)
1:10-2:00         New Orleans Water Management Plan (David Waggoner: Waggoner
-                          & Ball Architects) (1 credit)
2:05-2:55         Landscape Performance Series (Barbara Deutch: Landscape
-                          Architecture Foundation) (1 credit)
2:55-3:15         Break with Refreshments and Sponsor Exhibits
3:15-3:40         Downtown Baton Rouge in a Decade (Davis Rhorer: BR Downtown
-                          Development District (DDD)) (.5 credit)
3:40-5:45         Bus Tour of Projects Downtown (Davis Rhorer: BR Downtown
-                          Development District (DDD)) (2.5 credits)
- OR -
3:40 – 4:40       LARE Section A Review Session (PPI study guide included)
-                          (Instructor: Matt Mathes)
4:45 – 5:45       LARE Section B Review Session (PPI study guide included)
-                          (Instructor: Matt Mathes)

5:45                  Adjourn until Banquet
6:30                  Awards Banquet Cocktail Hour (Cash Bar) – in Sponsor Room
7:30                  2012 LCASLA Banquet and Awards Presentation
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Hotel Indigo (next to the Shaw Center) may still has rooms available.  You can make a reservation by calling 1-800-HOLIDAY.
To check out the hotel, go to http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/hotelindigo/hotels/us/en/baton-rouge/btrin/hoteldetail/photos-tours

CEU’s for master gardeners & landscape architects!

Saturday, January 28 ~ 8:30 am-12:30 pm
LSU Design Auditorium
$45 Members/ $60 Non-Members

PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:30 AM – Welcoming Comments
8:40 AM – Randy Harelson
“How Old is Old?”
(When You’re Talking About a Plant)
Gardeners in the 21st century toss around a lot of terms for plants:  heirloom, historic, native, pass-along, even patented!  What are we really talking about?  Randy’s short talk defines some terms and touches on the deeper implications of the plant choices modern gardeners make.

 9:10 AM – Dr. William Welch
“Heirloom Plants and Gardens for Louisiana”
Louisiana has a heritage of cultural influences and plants that is worth celebrating and emulating for today’s gardeners.  As we explore these influences and plants we will be better equipped to create distinctive and useful new gardens that truly reflect our region and its people.  The most meaningful gardens of the past are those that reflected the lifestyle of their owners.  I hope that you will enjoy remembering your own gardening heritage and find ways to reflect it in your landscape.   The heirloom plants we discuss as well as many of the design ideas are time tested keys to continuing the richness of our gardening legacy.

 10:00 – 10:50 AM Intermission
Enjoy the refreshments, visit the garden gift shop, plant sales and LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture “Design Week” student projects on display in the atrium. LSU’s Hilltop Arboretum was the case study site for the “Design Week” activities.

 10:50 AM – Greg Grant
“Gardening for Love:  An Arcadian Dogtrot”
Accompanied by copious pictures, Greg will discuss hisunending love affair with his grandparent’s  old home and property in Deep East Texas and his lifelong quest and promise to restore them.  He will discuss both the historic influences that inspired his developing garden and the cottage garden plants that make their homes there.

11:40 AM – Questions and Answer Session
~ All Speakers and Door Prizes Awarded ~