The Las Vegas Chapter of the Nevada Landscape Association recently announced their board of directors for April 2003-March 2004. John Marman, past president; Pete Luna, president; Jack McClary, secretary-treasurer; Jim Johnson, director; Erik Proksch, director, and Rob Diaz, director. ?EUR??,,????'???? The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has elected Scott Jenkins, vice president construction/industrial sales for Detroit Diesel Corp. and Dwight (Dyke) Messinger, president of Power Curbers Inc., to the AEM board of Directors. ?EUR??,,????'???? The AEM board of directors has elected Ronald DeFeo as AEM chairman. Charles Stamp has been elected first vice chairman and Gerald Shaheen has been elected as second vice chairman. ?EUR??,,????'???? The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) has named James G. Toscas as president. Toscas is taking over this position from retiring Thomas Battles, who led the group for the past 16 years. Battles has been named to the honorary post of president emeritus. ?EUR??,,????'???? During the American Nursery & Landscape Association?EUR??,,????'???s Management Clinic in Louisville, Ky., ANLA presented Kurt Fromherz, Sunrise Marketing, Hartford, Conn., its prestigious Golden Garden Glove Award in recognition for the work he has done promoting Plant for the Cure. ?EUR??,,????'???? Rusty Girouard, business manager of Madison Tree Service in Milford, Ohio, was elevated to the position of chairman of the board of the Tree Care Industry Association. ?EUR??,,????'???? The Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) has selected Michael Byrne, CLP, as president of the association for 2003 ?EUR??,,????'???? Les Gehrels was elected president of the Iowa Nursery and Landscape Association for 2003. Gehrels is a native of Minnesota and graduated from South Dakota State University in 1972 he graduated with a BS in Horticulture Business. ?EUR??,,????'???? Larry Thalmann III has been re-elected as president of the Mid-America Horticultural Trade Show Board of Directors. Randy Jasperson returns as vice president of the board and John Hendricksen was re-elected as treasurer. Kurt Meyer was re-elected as secretary and elected to serve another three-year term on the board. In addition, Greg Oltman was reappointed to serve another three-year term on the board. Dora Landscaping Company has appointed Dwight Schlicht as landscape operations manager. Schlicht has more than 30 years of experience in the landscaping industry. ?EUR??,,????'???? Rain Bird Corporation has announced the advancement of Donn Mann to regional sales manager for the Midwest region and Dan Puthuff to regional sales manager for the Southwest region. They assumed responsibility for their new positions in April 2003. Mann will continue to work from Indianapolis and Puthuff will relocate to Phoenix. ?EUR??,,????'???? Focus Landscape Lighting has announced the addition of Victor Samano as the company?EUR??,,????'???s Western regional sales manager. ?EUR??,,????'???? Susan VanAlstine has joined Plant Health Care Inc. as marketing associate. VanAlstine will coordinate the company?EUR??,,????'???s advertising, public relations and direct mail efforts. ?EUR??,,????'???? The Astrup Company has appointed Richard Thomas and Lisa Schuler account executives for the company?EUR??,,????'???s Denver, Colorado branch location. ?EUR??,,????'???? FINN Corporation has named James Loneman manager of the company?EUR??,,????'???s central states territory. ?EUR??,,????'???? Netafim USA has promoted Kurt Maloney to director of marketing and customer service, Jim Anshutz as head of the technical department and Mike Illia to sprinkler product manager. In addition, the company has hired Matt Langa and Kevin Shortel to join the agriculture sales team and Ed Freedman has joined the wastewater division. ?EUR??,,????'???? Skinner Nurseries?EUR??,,????'??? Myrtle Beach, South Carolina branch, has hired Chris Royster as an outside salesman covering the North Carolina triangle area. In addition, the company has hired Joe McDermott, Dan Simon and Cathy Boerner to its sales team ?EUR??,,????'???? Dosmatic USA/International has opened its newest office in Wameral, Australia. Pete Hanrahan has recently been named manager of distributor development at North American Green. ?EUR??,,????'???? Simplot Partners has named John Doyle as specialty line manager. In this newly created position, Doyle is responsible for the sales and production of specialty fertilizer products. ?EUR??,,????'???? Sean Hartigan has joined United Receptacle as the national sales manager for the janitorial supply market.