www.honda.ca (Honda Power Equipment)
Follow the link to Power Equipment. The Honda Power Equipment website
provides oodles of information on their line of mowers, tillers, trimmers,
generators and pumps. In addition to the general ‘Model Overview &
Features’ descriptions of Honda’s products, there is detailed ‘Technical
Specifications, and Pricing’. Selecting the right piece of equipment
for your job is made simple. When you get tired of the Power Equipment
check out the rest of Honda’s fine quality wares. Or check out the
American site at www.hondapowerequipment.com for a different perspective
of the same information. The information has a slightly different slant
and some added features like Helpful Hints, Buying Guides and lots of additional
technical information about the product line.
www.hondanews.com/forms/power/index.html (Honda Media Newsroom)
What’s new with Honda Power Equipment? Browse through the Media Newsroom
and see the latest information on Honda’s complete line of outdoor power
equipment.
www.golfcourseshow.com (2003 GCSAA conference)
The official website of the GCSAA 2003 annual conference. They are
billing this as the ‘Biggest Event of the Century’. From the
website you can find out which companies are exhibiting in the trade show.
You can browse through the seminars offered. Online registration is
available. Check out the extracurricular activities planned during
your stay in Atlanta, GA the host city. Starting in November you can
even see which of your colleagues is attending. They even offer you
the ability to book your travel and hotel accommodations online.
www.strathayr.com.au (StrathAyr Turf Systems)
This is the website of an Australian company, StrathAyr Turf Systems that
has developed a revolutionary new modular turfgrass system. The turfgrass
is grown in modules. The modules are interlocking and come complete
with drainage grids. GPS allows the modules to be precisely located
on the field. The system allows events to be played on grass where
grass normally does not grow well such as indoor stadiums. In addition
to the modular turf, they also produce sod for the domestic market and a
product called MegAyr sod, which is 40mm thick.
www.acssc.ca (Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System of Canada)
The Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System of Canada (ACSSC) educates and encourages
landowners and land managers to become actively involved in protecting and
enhancing wildlife and their habitats and conserving and sustaining natural
resources on their own properties. Programs for golf courses, schools,
businesses, cemeteries, and backyards are designed to provide conservation
assistance tailored to the unique needs, opportunities, concerns, and constraints
of each property. The Golf Program is set up as 3 steps. The
first is registering your golf course, the second is to complete your resource
inventory and environmental plan, and the third is to obtain certification
in one of five areas. Those areas are Wildlife & Habitat Management,
Integrated Pest Management, Water Conservation, Water Quality Management,
and Outreach & Education. If you are interested, there is an online
application form available in PDF format.
www.getao.org (Golf Equipment Technicians Association of Canada)
This association is primarily for the benefit of the technician, who deals
with all phases of turf equipment in the golf industry, and for the betterment
of the golf industry. To educate, inform, and assist all members of
the association. To improve communication between manufacturers, golf
course superintendents and members of the association. G.E.T.A.C. was
founded in 1992 by a group of Golf Equipment Technicians as the Golf Equipment
Technicians Association of Ontario (G.E.T.A.O.), with a mandate to help educate
golf course mechanics and to promote professionalism for this trade within
the golf industry. They have links to Health & Safety, Technical
Support, Tips & Tricks, Classifieds, Upcoming Events, Past Events, and
Contacts. They are presently working with Fairview College to establish
a standardized curriculum for their Turf Equipment Technician program.
The goal is to provide technicians that are ready to face the demands that
will be placed on them by today's increasingly complex and hi-tech turf maintenance
equipment. G.E.T.A.C. is here to offer support for these new technicians.
So whether your mechanic is just starting out, or you are an established,
experienced technician, a membership in G.E.T.A.C. is a great way to enhance
and support the growth of not only your golf course but the entire trade
and will help to ensure that Canadian Turf Equipment Technicians are kept
up to date on all of the latest news and developments and are looked upon
by all as some of the best in the business. If anyone would be interested
in development of provincial chapters in the western provinces please contact
Bear Moffatt at gmoffatt@fairviewcollege.com or Dave Allan at dallan@fairviewcollege.com.
If you come across any interesting web sites (turf or non-turf related) please
forward this information to Dave at dallan@fairviewcollege.com or Jeff at
hoyem@uoalberta.com.
