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Cultivate landscaping skills at industry trade show at Blaisdell Hall
WHETHER you're a landscape professional or someone with a green thumb, there's something for everyone at the 2007 Green Industry Conference & Trade Show, tomorrow and Thursday at the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, presented by the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii.
A free public trade show will feature vendor demonstrations and plant and garden supply sales from noon to 8 p.m. tomorrow and noon to 5 p.m. Thursday.
The conference portion takes place 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow and 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday. The fee for the conference is $125 per day.
Two nationally recognized landscape professionals will share their expertise at the conference portion of the event tomorrow.
Bill Wenk, FASLA, landscape architect and founder of Wenk Associates Inc. in Denver, will give the keynote address at the opening of the conference, at 9 a.m. He will present "A Return to Paradise: Transforming Honolulu's Waterways from a Liability to a Resource."
Jim Gibbons of the Wynn Las Vegas will give an 11:30 a.m. presentation on "Landscape Design & Maintenance at the Wynn Las Vegas."
To register, visit the Web site www.lichawaii.com.