The Seascape
Newsletter of the CLCA
Central Coast Chapter
September 2021
Events Calendar
Central Coast CLCA Educational Event!
September 23, Thursday
Fundamentals of Irrigation Design
Time: 8:00 am to 1pm
Location: The Sheriff’s Posse in Santa Cruz
$65 for non-members and $50 for members, all proceeds go to CLCA.
The Sheriff’s Posse is a large and well-ventilated venue, with an option to spend time outdoors. Covid protocols will be followed. Contact Jeremy Yearton at (669) 553-3755 or jeremy.yearton@hunterindustries.com
Follow this link for more information and to register today!
October 5, Tuesday
2021 SFBA Chapter Golf Tournament
Time: 11:30 am to 8:30 pm
Location: Spring Valley Golf Course, Milpitas
Time is running out to register for the CLCA SFBA Chapter Golf Tournament! Join friends and colleagues for a rousing round of golf. The registration deadline is Tuesday, September 21! Register here. Or contact Jeff Henninger at (925)698-8295 for more info.
October 7, Thursday
Central Coast Chapter Board Meeting
Time: 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Location: TBA
Contact Justin White at (831) 331-3476 or justin@kndlandscaping.com
November 3-6, Wednesday-Friday
2021 CLCA Convention
Location: Maui, Hawaii
The State Convention this year is going to be held at The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Ka’anapali, 2365 Kaanapali Parkway, Lahaina, HI 96761. You’re going to want to be there! Go to https://www.clca.org/events/events-calendar/clca-annual-convention/ or contact Justin White at (831) 331-3476 or justin@kndlandscaping.com
Firescaping Workshop Video—Free and available to all, just follow the link
Here is a link to the video of the event. It can be viewed by anyone at anytime. Join Phil Dundas, and other industry leaders in this video workshop about wildfire mitigation in the wildland urban interface, a topic we are all concerned about. Here’s a chance to learn ways to help reduce risks related to low intensity wildfires. NOTE: If you have participated in our online course and would like to be included in a directory of local Central Coast CLCA members who are trained to do firescaping please contact Justin White at (831) 331-3476 or justin@kndlandscaping.com
September 2021 Central Coast President’s Message
by Justin White, Chapter President, K&D Landscaping Company
“Back Together Again”
Hello friends, and welcome to another month of our Seascape newsletter! We had an amazing Beautification Awards event last month in Santa Cruz. As always, the Dream Inn delivered with a beautiful venue, great food and wonderful weather. I want to thank all of our partners for their continued support of our chapter, these events really would not be possible without you all. (If you are interested in becoming a partner, you can find more information on our website on how to sign up.) I also want to thank the judges and our committee, who was led by Katia, that against constantly evolving challenges, made this event happen. We are hopeful that we will have an end-of-the-year celebration at some point in late November or early December, so stay tuned for updates in our October newsletter.
Water is constantly in the news these days, whether it is a story about the drought or another district enforcing mandatory restrictions on water use, every day you can find an article talking about this precious resource. The CLCA has been on the front lines for many years now trying to educate and conserve water for the betterment of the landscape industry and our community. We are continuing this mission of education in September with a great in-person irrigation design class offered by Hunter Irrigation. Many of us have arranged irrigation systems based on feel and experience, but it is very rare that we take the time to calculate water pressure, pipe size, and water volume when designing our systems. Hunter’s training specialist, Gregg Roesink, (CLIA, CIT, LICT, QWEL, CLVLT, RWSS) will be presenting some great information including how to properly design an irrigation system. Follow the link in the newsletter below to sign your team up today! Whether you are an owner or an entry-level employee, this class will provide you with great information. We all know how hard it is to find educated irrigation technicians, so I think it is best to train your own and that is what this class is all about.
Has Covid made us all lazy? I’ll be a bit vulnerable here and tell you what I’ve been feeling. As the Central Coast team and I began to put everything together for our Beautification Awards contest and dinner, I felt very overwhelmed with the number of decisions and variables we were facing. Would we be able to hold the dinner? Do we have to do this on Zoom? Will contractors even enter projects? Will judges want to come look at projects? Should we just call the entire event off this year due to “COVID”...? We decided to push through these feelings and put the event on anyway, thinking that if people didn’t feel comfortable to attend they didn’t have to, and that there were still a lot of people that wanted this event to happen. It would be up to us to make that work!
I think our society has become much too comfortable with canceling plans/events and retreating into our homes to avoid extra work. We have defaulted to Zoom meetings and text messages instead of in-person events and face-to-face communication. We all need to be smart and stay safe when it comes to Covid and by no means am I asking people to disregard their safety, but I think there is a happy medium we can find where we can still come together and celebrate while also protecting ourselves and those we love. We need to start asking ourselves what is the real reason we are canceling on our friends, family, and colleges? Are we doing this purely to stay safe or is there an underlying motive that is keeping us from living our life to the fullest? I hope everyone is staying healthy, keeping their community members safe and that you are still doing those things you love, life is too short to sit on the sidelines.
Sincerely,
Justin White
CEO, K&D Landscaping Inc.
justin@kndkandscaping.com
C: (831) 331-3476 │ O: (831) 728-4018
2021 Central Coast Chapter Partners for Success Program
There has never been a better time to support Central Coast’s Partners for Success Program. Joining provides an opportunity to increase your visibility in the community, to be seen as a leader in the green industry by helping sustain the many educational and enrichment offerings of our association. For more information, contact Justin White justin@kndkandscaping.com.
Or, better still, go directly to our online registration! Join us today!
WE love our partners!
We would like to welcome new partners Rain Bird & West Coast Turf!
With much appreciation Our Partners in Success 2021.
PaRTNER’S CORNER
The Whole Team at Devil Mountain
This month Devil Mountain is featured in our “Partner’s Corner.” Read more here.
There will soon be posting on our website with photos of the winners
CLCA Central Coast Beautifications Awards 2021
Beautification Awards EVENT 2021
On August 26, 2021 the California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA) Central Coast Chapter held a very successful event at The Dream Inn in Santa Cruz. We honored our peers in the local green industry with awards in many landscape catagories, and just plain had a great time.
Thank you to all who entered and all who participated! Scroll further down in this newsletter for some photos of the festivities…
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EDUCATION CORNER
Presented by the Central Coast Chapter of the California Landscape Contractor’s Association (CLCA)
Workshop: Fundamentals of Irrigation Design
$65 to attend, $50 for members.
all proceeds benefit Central Coast Chapter of the CLCA
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021
Time - 8am-1pm ( will include breaks and lunch)
LOCATION: TBA
All are encouraged to attend this in-person irrigation design class offered by Hunter Irrigation. Many of us have arranged irrigation systems based on feel and experience, but it’s very rare that we take the time to calculate water pressure, pipe size, and water volume when designing our systems. Hunter’s training specialist, Gregg Roesink, (CLIA, CIT, LICT, QWEL, CLVLT, RWSS) will be presenting some great information including how to properly design an irrigation system. Gregg is coming up from San Marcos to teach informative class.
Jeremy Yearton, Bay Area Sales Manager Northern California
1 669-253-3755 Mobile
1 800-733-2823 Tech Line
jeremy.yearton@hunterindustries.com
Contact Jeremy Yearton if you have further questions about the event.
Follow this link for more information and register today! You don’t want to miss out on this event.
Coming soon…
Central Coast Educational Event: Employee Culture and Recruitment Workshop: Justin White, Central Coast’s favorite president of 2021 and CEO of K&D
Landscaping will be giving a presentation on “employee culture” and recruitment. Workshop delivered via zoom, date TBA.
2021 LANDSCAPE EXPO, Long Beach, October 13-14—The show is about to SELL OUT!
There are only 14 booths left at The 2021 Landscape Expo, Long Beach Meet face to face with thousands of landscape professionals including: Landscape Contractors, Superintendents, Groundkeepers, Commercial/Residential Landscape Crews, Landscape Designers, Landscape Architects and more.
Call 714-979-5276 x118 or email tleinfo@thelandscapeexpo.com to learn more about the largest landscape industry trade show in the Southwest.
The deadline to have your Logo and Booth Number in the printed show guide, which is handed out to all attendees at the show, is rapidly approaching.
Click Here For The Floor Plan and Pricing
The NOR CAL LANDSCAPE & NURSERY SHOW, Thursday, February 3, 2022: Hotel Booking Now Available. Hosted by Hyatt Regency SF Airport (1333 Bayshore Hwy., Burlingame, CA 94010.)
The Nor Cal show has negotiated a $185 rate for a standard king room and a standard queen room. It also includes FREE parking with in and out privileges (regularly $36 per night), FREE WIFI and if needed a FREE shuttle to San Francisco International airport every 30 minutes.
The cut-off date for registering is January 10, 2022. Reservations can be made by calling Central Reservation (800) 421-1442 or visit the website www.norcaltradeshow.org or contact Margo Cheuvront, show manager, at margoc@frontiernet.net or 530-458-3190. Don’t miss out on this great deal! See you in February!
recent events
Beautification Awards Event & BBQ
Dream Inn Santa Cruz, August 26, 2021
Congratulations to all the 2021 CLCA Central Coast Beautification award winners. You make the world a beautiful place! It was a wonderful night for an outdoor event at the Dream Inn in Santa Cruz. We were all happy to be able to be together again! Big winners this year were Coastal Evergreen, with top honors, as well as K & D Landscaping, Tamura Designs, Christiansen Associates, Greenstreak Landscaping and The Landscape Company. Complete information and photos will appear on our website soon! Meanwhile, check out the party here!
Many thanks to our Partners For Success, Netafim USA and The Landscape Company for their help sponsoring this event.
Above, some of our winners this year. Visit our website soon for a complete listing of winners, and gallery of winning landscape entries.
Congratulations to everyone who entered and
Thank you to all who supported this event!
Board Meeting Minutes
Central Coast Chapter CLCA Board Meeting August 4, 2021
Justin White, Craig Stenehjem, Ki Bowman, Katia Velaquez, Elise Huffman, Phil Dundas, David Ventura attended.
Justin called the zoom meeting to order at 12:00 PM.
Craig made a motion to approve the minutes, July minutes were approved.
Events Schedule
Beautification Event - Thursday, Aug 26th.
— Ki reported the pictures she got will not work for the trophies.
— Plaques have been ordered, but we need pictures.
— Katia reported the Dream Inn is all set.
— Craig will check on heaters and get them delivered.
— Justin will put together one more meeting before the event.
— We are still looking for an event sponsor.
— We don’t have enough plaques for the event sponsors.
— We will follow the Dreams Inn direction with regards to masks.
— Dave will get the slide show done. - We hope. LOL.
— Justin will send out an email to get more members to attend. Currently no one has signed up.
— Elise will send out another e-blast.
— Aaron will be photographing the event.
Miscellaneous
—Justin brought up the State CLCA Convention in Hawaii from Nov 3rd - Nov 5th. Everyone should try and attend.
Education
● Irrigation class will be held on September 23rd. Still need a place to hold the event. Phil, Justin and Dave will make a few phones to see if we can find out.
● Contact for the event is Jeremy Yearton at Hunter Industries. Entry fee is $50. The fee will cover lunch. It’s a four hour class.
● Irrigation panel discussion in October.
Newsletter and Website Updates
● Ki brought up that we need to start talking about our community event. We will discuss it at the next meeting.
Treasurer Report
● Our cash flow is currently good and we are making money for the chapter.
Other Business
● Need to start discussion around next year at the September meeting.
● Quick discussion around fall beautification awards. Elise to check UCSC to see if they have something available.
● Meeting was adjoined at 1:15?