People and Events

New Positions
Robert Westley to southeast regional sales manager, Hamilton Engineering, Livonia, Mich.

Steve Olsen to senior vice president, merchandising, Orchard Supply Hardware, San Jose, Calif.

Peter Kim to vice president and chief procurement officer, KIOTI Tractor, Wendell, N.C.

Robin Spreitler to propagation manager, Skagit Gardens, Mount Vernon, Wash.

Business Changes
Costa Farms, Miami, has a new, updated website: www.costafarms.com.

Botany Lane Greenhouse, Denver, has been designated as a licensed propagator in the Athens Select Marketing Association.

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, Vancouver, British Columbia, has been chosen by The Artemis Project as a winner of the 2010 Top 50 Water Companies competition.

Aqua Engineering, Fort Collins, Colo., has been presented with the Hunter Trailblazer Award from Hunter Industries, San Marcos., Calif., in recognition of its advances in the irrigation industry.

America In Bloom, Columbus, Ohio, was named to the 2010 Associations Advance Honor Roll by the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership, Washington, D.C.

Nick Hamon, Bayer CropScience, Research Triangle Park, N.C., was awarded the College of Agriculture and Life Science Volunteer of the Year award, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C.

Dream with Colors, Phoenix, Ariz., celebrated its 10th anniversary in July.

Aureliano Benitez-Garcia, Jose Luis Ruiz, Benjamin Rodriguez, James Wooley and Exau Dominguez Perez were awarded new Ford Ranger trucks in honor of their excellent safety records by ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, Calabasas, Calif.

Clarke, Roselle, Ill., has been named a winner of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award for its new product Natular larvicide.

J.A. LaPorte’s Flowers and Nursery, Orleans, Ontario, Canada, celebrated its 50th anniversary in June.

Bob Gunther, Gunther Greenhouses, Oceanside, N.Y., received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Long Island Flower Growers’ Association, Long Island, N.Y.

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Mo., established the Monsanto Scholarship Fund in the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to support education of students interested in the plant sciences.
 

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