BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:44@swroga.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190209T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190209T153000 DTSTAMP:20190109T063247Z URL:http://swroga.org/events/dallas-judging-center-tri-center-seminar-2019 SUMMARY:Dallas Judging Center Tri Center Seminar 2019 DESCRIPTION:\n2019 Tri-Center Seminar\n\n\n\nThe 2019 Tri-Center Judging Wo rkshop\n\nHosted by the Dallas Judging Center\n\nREGISTER ONLINE HERE!!!!! !!\n\nDATE: February 9\, 2019\n\nThe Dallas Judging Center is hosting the Tri-Center Workshop where we will spend the day concentrating on the genus  Dendrobium.  The Workshop will highlight our three speakers: Fred Clark e\, Peter Lin and Roy Tokunaga! See bios below.\n\nFred Clarke – Sunset Valley Orchids –\n\nFred Clarke has been growing orchids for since 1977 and has been hybridizing for 38 of those years. With over 36 years as a pr ofessional grower and manager in the horticultural industry\, Fred applies these skills at his orchid nursery\; Sunset Valley Orchids\, located in S an Diego\, California.\nHe is a passionate orchid grower whose curiosity i n orchids is broad and varied. Although developing Cattleya hybrids has be en his sustaining interest\, he is also actively creating new Catasetinae \, Paphiopedilum and Australian Dendrobium hybrids.\nHis pioneering wo rk in Catasetum intergeneric breeding has led to the development of many notable hybrids\, most recently the grex\, Fredclarkeara After Dark\, w hich produced “the blackest flower ever witnessed”.  The hybrid gen us Fredclarkeara has received an amazing number of awards with a total o f 17 FCC’s and 42 AM’s worldwide.\nFred is an internationally acclaime d speaker and travels extensively within USA\, Canada\, Mexico\, Australia \, New Zealand and South America.  He is an accredited American Orchid So ciety Judge in the Pacific South region. His plants have received hundreds of quality awards from the American Orchid Society.\n\nFred Clarke\nSunse t Valley Orchids\n1255 Navel Place\nVista\, CA 92081\n\n(760) 639-6255\n\n fred.clarke@att.net\nwww.sunsetvalleyorchids.com\n\n\nPeter T. Lin – Dia mond Orchids –\n\nPeter started growing orchids over 35 years ago\, but then stopped due to school and starting a career.  It wasn’t until abou t 14 years ago that the orchid “bug” came back and he is now heavily i nvolved once again.  He is an accredited judge with the American Orchid S ociety and a hybridizer of mini-catts. He enjoys meeting with other orchid enthusiasts\, and can often be found at various orchid shows and societie s around the country.  He also has hundreds of photos of his orchids that he maintains on Flickr. You can view them by typing this address into the internet: http://www.flickr.com/photos/minicatt/collections/  Due to l imited growing space\, Peter likes to specialize in miniature orchids\, bo th species and hybrids\, and has received numerous AOS awards.  His other interests in orchids include Dendrobiums\, Angraecoids\, and Neofineti as.  He maintains a collection of a thousand or more orchids at his home in Southern California in 3 small greenhouses\, as well as in the house un der fluorescent lights.\n\nIf attendees are interested\, Peter will be tak ing preorders.  These preorders will receive a 10% discount. Attendees ca n review the current list of plants on his website:  www.diamondorchids.c om.   There will also be an assortment of plants for sale.\n\nRoy Tokuna ga – H and R Orchids\n\nRoy Tokunaga earned a Bachelors in Education fro m the University of Hawaii in 1973\, with a major in teaching high school biology.  He never used that teaching certificate as he was immediately r ecruited by Ernest Iwanaga to set up an orchid lab\, where he spent the ne xt seven years primarily honing his skills at cloning and germinating orch ids.  At about the same the time\, Harry Akagi was growing bromeliads\, a nd in 1981\, together Harry and Roy established an orchid lab in Waimanalo \, giving birth to H&\;R Nurseries. Today\, Roy is credited with many y ears of experience in hybridization with several thousand hybrids delivere d.  Most of his work has been in the Dendrobium and Cattleya alliance s.  He is a long time member of the Honolulu Orchid Society and an accred ited American Orchid Society judge since 1990.  Nora and Roy Tokunaga hav e two children\, Lori and Kevin.\n\nRoy Tokunaga may be reached at H&\; R Nurseries\, 41-4202 Hihimanu Street\, Waemanalo\, Hawaii 96795\; Fax: 80 8-259-5422\; Phone: 808-259-9622\n\n\n\nSubmit your registration form onli ne here or download\, print and send your registration form from below!\n Please send your Registration back as soon as you can so we can get a fina l count for the light breakfast and lunch.\n\nWe look forward to seeing yo u on February 9th.\n\nThe cost of the Workshop is ONLY $40 per person whic h includes a light breakfast\, lunch\, and the lectures.  The fun and net working is free!\n\nLOCATION: Garland Senior Center\, 600 West Avenue A\, Garland TX 75040  (972) 205-2769. Ample parking provided at the Center fr ee of charge. Map from Hotel to the Garland Senior Center is attached.\n\n Manny Aybar\, Chair (214) 934-9104 mannyaybar@gmail.com\n\nTim Carr\, Tre asurer (214) 755-3626  txcarr@verizon.net\n\nAttachments:\n\nThe 2019 Tri -Center Workshop Hosted by the Dallas Judging Center – February 2019\n\n Dallas Judging Center Tri-Center Workshop Registration and Payment Februar y 2019\n\nSchedule of Events\n\nHotel Information. Any hotel in the Park C entral Area of Dallas will work and will be close to the Judging Center.\n \n\n CATEGORIES:Orchid Events LOCATION:Garland Senior Center\, 600 W Avenue A\, Garland\, TEXAS\, 75040\, United States GEO:32.9111885;-96.63779899999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=600 W Avenue A\, Garland\, TEXAS\, 75040\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Garland Senior Ce nter:geo:32.9111885,-96.63779899999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20181104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR