2010 Lilly Day of Service: Volunteers Needed

As part of this year’s Annual Meeting, INASLA members will have the opportunity to partner with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful in the Lilly Day of Service. INASLA volunteers will assist in “quality control” – helping teams of Lilly employees properly locate and plant some 15,000 trees, shrubs, perennials, and bulbs.

An outstanding way to “give back,” the commitment involved a one-hour education session (worth 1 CEU) held in the weeks before the day of service and 4 hours on-site, either 8-12-1-5 (or all day, if you desire).

Please contact Sean Rotar at 317.332.9430 to reserve your place in the INASLA volunteer team.

For more about the project please visit the KIB project page.

INASLA Job Opportunity: New Post!

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INASLA : Call for Volunteers and all Interested "Park Builders"

This year, INASLA is joining AFH-Indianapolis (Architecture for Humanity - Indianapolis Chapter : http://afh-indy.org ) and other Profit and Non-Profit organizations throughout our community to present PARK(ing) Day 2010 to the downtown population of our great city. For those that don't know, in short, PARK(ing) Day is a global event when concerned and forward thinking groups of citizens partner together to turn urban parking spaces into small, viable, community parks - for one entire day. AFH-Indy did it quite successfully, on their own, last year and has opened up the event to other interested groups in Indianapolis. INASLA will be joining the cause and "developing" our own parking space, downtown, in celebration of PARK(ing) Day 2010.

What: PARK(ing) Day 2010
When: Friday, September 17, 2010
Time: All Day - (6 am - 3 pm : plus or minus)
More Information: Click here

We're calling on INASLA membership to join forces for this great event. We will have one (1) downtown parking space that we will be able to turn into a "Park" for one day on Friday, September 17. It's an all day event, so, we'll need a few folks to be involved all day and some to take "shifts" in joining fellow LA's at the space downtown, promoting the event and promoting the cause.

Once we have a committed group of volunteers, we'll have a meeting to coordinate work shifts, material donation solicitation and other logistics for the event. We'll need you all to utilize your resources to help us collect materials for our park that willing vendors, nurseries and the like are willing to donate for the day. There will be no promotion opportunities for "for-profit" organizations, but, those folks that donate materials are more than welcome to join the volunteer effort and spend time in the space downtown.

We'll need a variety of materials including, containerized perennials and grasses, containerized sedges and rushes, containerized trees, pavers, benches and the like. The ExComm committe is currently trying to come up with a couple design options to present to the volunteer group, so that we have a direction for the design and layout of the parking space. The final "design" will be determined once we have a group of volunteers committed to the effort. It should be noted that AFH-Indy wants to utilize as much of the donated materials, as humanly possible, in order to put in an urban park at a Community Center at 23rd and Guilford, after the PARK(ing) day event is over. As you're talking to material donors, please mention this and see if they're willing to commit materials for permanent use in the community.

Please email Katie Clark or Ben Jennings to put your name on the volunteer list. It would be great to have a large and diverse group of volunteers from our membership, so, please feel free to commit sooner rather than later. For more information see the PARK(ing) Day website for more details about what the event entails.

Katie Clark (CClark@rwa.com)
Ben Jennings (ben.jennings.design@gmail.com)

Thanks, in advance, for your help with this great event. The deadline for committing to volunteer is Noon on Friday, August 20th. After that, we'll have an organizational meeting to get ready for the September event.

New Job Posting

American Structure Point: Senior Project Manager

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17th Annual INASLA Golf Outing

Come join us for an incredible day of golf and social gathering. We will play a scrambleformat, so dust off your clubs and make your reservation! This is an INASLA-Vendorsponsoredevent, so your golf fees, food and beverages will be covered (3 ASLA membersand 1 Sponsor per foursome).

August 27, 2010
The Fort Golf Resort
6002 North Post Road Indianapolis IN USA 46216
317.543.9597 www.thefortgolfcourse.com

9:00 PUTTING CONTEST and REGISTRATION
10:00 SHOTGUN START

Grilled Lunch and Beverages provided
Reception following golf: Appetizers, Beverages, and Prizes

A $25 reservation fee for all golfers covers the following:
1 reserved spot on a foursome
2 chances in the putting contest
Hole contests
1 ticket for the prize table drawing
1 Mulligan per player to help the overall team score

MARK YOUR CALENDAR, RSVP AND SEND YOUR CHECK TO:
Julie Zigler (317) 585-0167
112 Shadowlawn Dr., Fishers, IN 46038
jzigler@irrigationdesignsource.com

Space is limited. E-mail or call in your reservation today.

2010 Claire Bennett Legacy Award: Call for Entries

In 2003, INASLA unveiled the initial "Claire Bennett Legacy Award" to recognize individual achievement, service and knowledge to the profession and the Indiana Chapter. The award honors long-time Indiana Chapter Member Claire Bennett, FASLA. Claire served as the president of the Indiana Chapter in 1978 and as the National President of ASLA in 1990-91. The legacy of service she has provided for the Indiana Chapter, as well as the leadership to ASLA on a national level inspired the creation of this award named in her honor to recognize those members who embody those same ideals.

In 2010, members are encouraged to nominate individuals, agencies, firms, or other groups for special recognition based on service to the Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the landscape architecture profession, or stewardship to the environment.

The INASLA Executive Committee will select the recipient(s) of this award.

You can find the Clair Bennett Legacy Award information here.

All submissions are due Friday, August 6, 2010 by 4:30 pm.

2010 INASLA Awards Program: Call for Entries

The INASLA Professional Awards Program was created to recognize professional excellence and outstanding examples of landscape architecture by Indiana landscape architects. These awards honor works that represent the forefront of the profession of Landscape Architecture and embody high levels of creativity and imagination. Any individual, firm, agency or institution is eligible to submit a project for consideration provided that:

• Projects submitted may be located outside of Indiana, but there must have been project involvement by a member in good standing of the Indiana Chapter of ASLA.

The four categories are: Constructed Projects, Unbuilt Works, Residential Works and the INPAWS Award (Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society).

In addition to the traditional Honor and Merit Awards, the jury may also select an 'Award of Excellence' for the single most outstanding submission (of the combined collection of Constructed, Unbuilt and Residential entries.)

The complete awards packet can be found here.

All submissions are due Friday, August 6, 2010 by 4:30 pm.