Sharpen Your Game

2019 PRPS CONFERENCE & EXPO PROGRAM GUIDE

SHARPEN YOUR GAME

April 2-5, 2019 The Penn Stater Conference Center State College, Pennsylvania Let us help you design your next park!

800-262-8448 GeorgeElyAssociates.com [email protected] SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE TUESDAY, APRIL 2 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PRPS Board Meeting 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Educational Sessions 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Refreshment Break 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Educational Sessions 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Keynote - Joe Battista 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Expo Hall Grand Opening - Tailgate Night Reception & Dinner 9:00 pm Social with DJ Troy Brown WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open 8:30 am - 9:45 am Educational Sessions 9:45 am - 10:45 am Expo Hall Open with Refreshments 10:45 am - 12:00 pm General Session - Tom O’Rourke 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Exhibitor Appreciation, Student, Past President Luncheons 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Expo Hall Closing with Refreshments 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Educational Sessions 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Refreshment Break 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm Educational Sessions 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm Social & Dinner at Pegula Ice Arena THURSDAY, APRIL 4 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open 8:30 am - 9:45 am Educational Sessions 9:45 am - 4:30 pm Non-Profit Expo 9:45 am - 10:00 am Refreshment Break 10:00 am - 11:15 am PRPS Branch & District Meetings 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Society Luncheon & Business Meeting 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Educational Sessions 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Refreshment Break 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Educational Sessions 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Awards Reception 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Awards Banquet 9:00 pm Social - Dueling Pianos FRIDAY, APRIL 5 7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast 8:30 am - 9:45 am Educational Sessions 9:45 am - 10:00 am Refreshment Break 10:00 am - 11:15 am Endnote – Jamie Bestwick

SHARPEN YOUR GAME 1 16 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! EXHIBITOR DIRECTORY AMERICAN RED CROSS atccorpmd.com Booth A pas@americantennis Preventative health and safety courtsinc.com training services Category: Surfaces redcross.org [email protected] AUTRUSA Category: Non-profit Booths 23 & 24 Your source for innovative, AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION cost saving machinery for Booth F grounds maintenance. We We will provide information focus on efficiency and quality, on the Young Lungs at Play by offering fuel saving and tobacco free parks program and time saving products. information on our programs. autrusa.com lung.org [email protected] [email protected] Category: Heavy Equipment Category: Non-profit

AQUATIC FACILITY DESIGN INC. BEST LINE EQUIPMENT Booth 42 Booth 16 Aquatic Facility Design, Inc., Best Line Equipment is a is a full service aquatic design successful, privately-owned, firm that specializes in the 13 location construction creation of heirloom quality, equipment rental, sales, service, investment-grade pools and & parts company that services water structures. We have Pennsylvania and its surrounding extensive experience in states. Our goal is to provide the creation, construction, our customers with the best maintenance and renovation equipment rentals, construction of aquatic facilities. sales, and professional services aquaticfacilitydesign.com in the marketplace by providing [email protected] a comprehensive range of Category: Pools equipment, excellent customer service, and tireless dedication ATC CORP AMERICAN TENNIS to the customer. COURTS bestline.com Booth 11 [email protected] Athletic courts and running Category: Heavy Equipment tracks construction and refurbishment.

SHARPEN YOUR GAME 17 BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORT industries. Parts, products and Booth 4 services for commercial pools. Blue Mountain Resort is your chem2o.com four-season outdoor adventure [email protected] destination. Conquer the high Category: Pools ropes course, blast your friends & family with lasers, fly down COMMUNITYPASS zip lines, camp or “glamp”, Booth 41 spend a day team building or CommunityPass Software: have a meeting with a view. Your complete online skibluemt.com recreation management [email protected] solution. CommunityPass is a Category: Resort/Parks leading provider of affordable recreation software for BOYCE ASSOCIATES managing online registration, Booth 49 payment, memberships, and Boyce Associates and facilities. Our easy-to-use, Commercial Recreation cloud-based software simplifies Products, LLC registration for the public, boyce4playgrounds.com, streamlines administrative commrec.com tasks and operations, and helps [email protected] drive revenue for parks and Category: Playground/Surfaces precreation organizations. communitypass.net BSN SPORTS [email protected] Booth 20 Category: Software Founded in 1972 as a factory- direct equipment company, DESIGNED FOR FUN, INC. BSN SPORTS is the largest Booth 31 distributor of team sports Design, sales, and installation apparel and equipment in the of commercial playground United States. equipment, resilient surfacing bsnsports.com materials, and shade structures. [email protected] designedforfun.com Category: Team Equipment [email protected] Category: Playground/Surfaces CHEM2O LLC Booth 35 Distribution of chemicals to commercial pools, water/ waste water, and various other

18 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! DIGGERLAND USA DISCOUNT PLAYGROUND SUPPLY Booth 3 Booth 48 Diggerland USA is a Replacement parts and supplies construction adventure for recreation areas, sports fields, theme park, allowing kids playgrounds and dog parks. and adults to drive and discountplaygroundsupply.com [email protected] operate REAL construction Category: Parks/Supplies machinery! Drive skid steers, operate excavators, try our E.H. GRIFFITH INC. / TURF ropes course, rock wall and EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLY soaring eagle zip line. An COMPANY education experience for Booth 56 everyone! Experience our Distributor for Toro Equipment, NEW attractions and climate other turf equipment and turf controlled pavilion! supplies. ehgriffith.com, diggerlandusa.com, turf-equipment.com diggerlandxl.com [email protected] [email protected] Category: Surfacing/Heavy Category: Resort/Parks Equipment

SHARPEN YOUR GAME 19 EATON’S EPHESUS LIGHTING playground equipment, safety Booth 10 surfacing, aquatic play areas, Versatile, maintenance-free, pavilions, site furnishings, band sports-lighting solutions with shells, bleachers, and outdoor features designed specifically athletic equipment. equipment, for municipal, school, collegiate, design and installation for most and multi-use outdoor sports products. venues. generalrecreationinc.com ephesuslighting.com [email protected] Category: Lighting Category: Playground/Surfaces

FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY GEORGE ELY ASSOCIATES, INC. Booth J SPONSOR Frostburg State University/ Booth 9, 21 & 29 Recreation & Parks Management Athletic, park, & playground Graduate Program equipment frostburg.edu [email protected] georgeelyassociates.com Category: Higher Learning [email protected] Category: Playground/Surfaces GAI CONSULTANTS, INC. Booth 32 GOOD FOR YOU. GOOD FOR ALL. Transforming ideas into reality® PENNSYLVANIA’S PARKS AND for more than 60 years, GAI RECREATION MARKETING Consultants is an employee- CAMPAIGN owned engineering, planning, Booth H and environmental consulting Inspired by the belief that local firm providing award-winning parks and recreation improves solutions and local expertise to the lives of all Pennsylvanians, worldwide clients in the energy, it is the mission of the “Good transportation, development, for You, Good for All” marketing government, and industrial campaign to increase usage markets. of parks and recreation facilities gaiconsultants.com/ across the state, while equipping communitysolutions [email protected] local providers with tools to Category: Design/Planning raise awareness and increase support in their communities. GENERAL RECREATION, INC. Visit the Good booth to learn SPONSOR about the materials available for you to use in YOUR community. Booths 58 & 59 We are full line and full service goodforpa.com provider of park, recreation and [email protected] Category: Marketing playground equipment. Including

20 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! HERBERT, ROWLAND & INNOVA DISC GOLF GRUBIC, INC. Booth 45 Booth 60 #1 in disc golf since 1983. Providing full-service INNOVA Disc Golf has capabilities: comprehensive designed and built some of park, recreation and open the highest rated courses in the world. Let us how you how space plans master plans to deliver an unforgettable feasibility studies funding and experience to your park guests. grant application assistance innovadiscs.com design development and [email protected] engineering landscape Category: Sports Equipment architecture construction JEFFREY ASSOCIATES observation and administration Booth 44 green infrastructure and MS4 Design, Furnish, and install strategies for municipal parks park products. and open spaces. jeffreyassociates.com hrg-inc.com [email protected] [email protected] Category: Playground/Surfaces Category: Design/Planning KEYSTONE PURCHASING HERSHEYPARK NETWORK Booth 2 SPONSOR KPN is a cooperative purchasing Booth 52 program offering premier New for 2019, Reese’s Cup products and excellent services Fusion! at competitive pricing. All bids hersheypark.com are publicly bid and award, [email protected] saving our members both time Category: Resort/Parks and money. There is no fee to join or obligation to purchase. ICON SHELTER SYSTEMS INC. thekpn.org [email protected] Booth 1 Category: Cooperative Purchasing ICON designs, engineers and fabricates open and enclosed KOMPAN, INC. structures for public spaces, Booth 37 including schools, parks, The largest manufacturer athletic facilities, arenas and of playground and outdoor urban squares. fitness equipment in the world. iconshelters.com We specialize in universal [email protected] design and inclusive play. Category: Structures kompan.us [email protected] Category: Playground/Surfaces

SHARPEN YOUR GAME 21 LYONS RECREATION, LLC MYREC.COM RECREATION Booth 7 SOFTWARE We sell and install - park Booth 46 amenities, outdoor fitness, MyRec.com is an all-inclusive bleachers, athletic equipment, web-based recreation custom pavilions, custom software that allows you to shade structures, playground stay connected wherever you surfacing, outdoor musical play. are. All of your operations, lyonsrecreation.com [email protected] including accounts, Category: Playground/Surfaces memberships, activities, product sales, reservations, MOREY’S PIERS and online payments are SPONSOR grouped together on our user- Booth 51 friendly platform with your Largest seaside amusement/ own unique domain name. water park in the Western myrec.com Hemisphere. [email protected] moreyspiers.com Category: Software [email protected] Category: Resort/Parks NAGLE ATHLETIC SURFACES, INC. MRC/GAMETIME PARK & Booth 15 PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT Installation and maintenance of recreational sports surfaces. Booth 5 Custom designed playground Tennis, basketball, pickleball, etc. equipment, site amenities, nagleathletic.com [email protected] dog parks, skate parks, safety Category: Surfaces surfacing, shelters. mrcrec.com [email protected] NATIONAL RECREATION AND Category: Playground/Surfaces PARK ASSOCIATION (NRPA) Booth B MUSCO SPORTS LIGHTING National Recreation and Booth 47 Park Association (NRPA) Musco has shaped the history is the leading non-profit of sports lighting since 1976. organization dedicated to the The company’s TLC for LED™ advancement of public parks, technology delivers unmatched recreation and conservation. light quality, control, efficiency, nrpa.org [email protected] and reliability. Category: Nonprofit musco.com [email protected] Category: Lighting

22 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! OLDCASTLE INFRASTRUCTURE signage. We blend superior Booth 57 digital graphics quality with our Precast concrete buildings, unique embedment process, restrooms, concession stands, to provide you with exhibit dugouts, pump houses. graphics that are unsurpassed oldcastleprecast.com in durability. Whether the need [email protected] demands a framed or frameless Category: Structures application, or custom shapes and thicknesses - Pannier PA DEPARTMENT OF delivers consistent quality on CONSERVATION AND time, time and again, for our NATURAL RESOURCES, customers. panniergraphics.com BUREAU OF RECREATION [email protected] AND CONSERVATION Category: Design/Planning Booth E DCNR’s Bureau of Recreation PARTAC / BEAM CLAY and Conservation (BRC) builds Booths 61 & 62 connections between citizens Athletic surfacing, equipment and the outdoors through and supplies recreation enhancement, partac.com, beamclay.com natural resource conservation, [email protected] and community revitalization Category: Playground/Surfaces efforts. BRC partners with communities and organizations PCI - PA CORRECTIONAL across Pennsylvania to provide INDUSTRIES grants and technical assistance Booth G support for local recreation Pennsylvania Correctional projects, trails and greenways, Industries (PCI) is a Bureau heritage areas, open space, river within the Pennsylvania conservation, and environmental Department of Corrections education programs. (DOC) that employs inmates dcnr.pa.gov to produce a variety of items [email protected] that are available for sale to Category: State Agency non-profit organizations and government entities located PANNIER GRAPHICS throughout Pennsylvania. Booth 33 Hundreds of inmates gain Pannier is the leading work experience and training manufacturer of indoor and as they produce high quality, outdoor signs, panels, exhibit competitively priced products. bases and frames, used in a full cor.pa.gov/PCI range of applications - from [email protected] wayfinding signs to interpretive Category: State Agency panels to custom fiberglass

SHARPEN YOUR GAME 23 PHANTOM ENTERTAINMENT used on line intersections in Booth 38 natural grass sports fields such djphantom.com as soccer, football, lacrosse, Category: Inflatables/Party hockey, etc. Equipment pleefix.com [email protected] PLAY & PARK STRUCTURES Category: Team Equipment Booth 64 Commercial playground RECDESK equipment for ages 2-5 Booth 13 and 5-12 that encourages At RecDesk, we know exactly imagination while building key who we are and who our developmental skills. customer is. Our entire playandpark.com [email protected] company is focused on Category: Playground/Surfaces building the best recreation management platform in the POINTMARKERS INC. industry – period. Booth 14 recdesk.com PLeeFiX location markers are [email protected] Category: Software shapped like tufts of grass,

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24 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! RECPRO SOFTWARE Rock ‘N Roll Racing Booth 6 SPONSOR Recreational Software that Booth 65 handles all the features a Remote control race track recreation department offers rocknrollracing.net [email protected] to their customers whether Category: Race Track it’s in-house or online. Web Hosted or client services are ROOKIE SPORTS CLUB, LLC options that are available. Booth 8 recprosoftware.com Rookie Sports Club specializes [email protected] in providing quality youth Category: Software sports programs and camps by partnering with community RECREATION RESOURCE USA organizations and schools to SPONSOR fulfill the youth sports needs Booths 12 & 22 within your community. Design, supply, and installation rookiesportsclub.com of playground equipment [email protected] and safety surfacing, splash Category: Camps/Equipment pad equipment, pavilions and shades, pedestrian SAHARA SAMS WATER PARK bridges, park and site Booth 54 furnishings, athletic equipment, Sahara Sam’s, year-round water bleachers, and much more. park features 80,000+ square Representatives located across feet of water amusements Pennsylvania. All products are under a retractable roof. available via COSTARS-14. Attached outdoor water park recreation-resource.com open Memorial Day-Labor Day. [email protected] 3,000 sq. ft. arcade, full service Category: Playground/Surfaces café, Free Parking. Children 2 & under free. RIVER VALLEY RECREATION saharasams.com [email protected] Booth 17 Category: Resort/Parks Full service recreation contractor - design, sales, & installation of playground SESAME PLACE equipment. Installation of Booth 50 Sesame Place®, the only theme playground surfacing. park in the U.S. based entirely rivervalleyrecreation.com ® kbortner@rivervalley landscapes.com on Sesame Street , is ideal for Category: Playground/Surfaces families of all ages. It is the first theme park in the world to become Certified Autism

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STARGUM TREATMENT SPECIALTIES / Booth 18 MER-MADE FILTERS STARGUM is producer of high Booth 36 quality virgin EPDM granules Filtration equipment for for sport and recreational commercial swimming pools. surfaces. We offer granules mermade.com in over 20 colors, suitable for [email protected] use on playgrounds, running Category: Pools tracks, pool areas, commercial surfaces and as an artificial grass infill. stargum.pl [email protected] Category: Surfacing

26 DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE APP ON YOUR PHONE! UNITED STATES TENNIS WADE ASSOCIATES II/ ASSOCIATION MIDDLE STATES INTEGRATED AQUATICS Booth C ENGINEERING Recognizing the importance Booth 66 of public parks in the long- Integrated Aquatics, bringing term health and growth of the in Wade Associates II, has sport, the USTA’s Tennis in been providing aquatic design the Parks initiative provides from small renovations to resources designed to help full reconstructions and new establish, grow and sustain facilities, we design with up tennis programming in public to date technologies and parks across the nation. programming concepts with playtenniswithus.com a conservative eye toward [email protected] budgets across Pennsylvania Category: Camps/Equipment for over 40 years. integratedaquatics.com VERMONT SYSTEMS, INC. [email protected] Booth 40 Category: Pools Vermont Systems provides Premier Recreation & Parks XCEED RECREATION GROUP, INC. Management software solutions Booth 55 with unparalleled support. Synthetic turf, poured in place RecTrac is a fully integrated, rubber, wood fiber, versacourt browser based, recreation sport tiles, playground and management system. surfacing installation services vermontsystems.com [email protected] [email protected] Category: Playground/Surfaces Category: Software ZAMBELLI FIREWORKS VORTEX AQUATIC STRUCTURES Booth 34 SPONSOR Zambelli Fireworks is one Booth 63 of the largest fireworks Vortex Aquatic Structures companies in the world with provides imaginative, durable a history dating back to aquatic play and water 1893. With 1600+ fireworks feature solutions that create shows a year, Zambelli has everlasting memories. Our mastered the art of creating ongoing mission is to develop memorable experiences for fun, safe and reliable products large events, small gatherings, for families and children of all and everything in between for ages and abilities. over 100 years. vortex-intl.com zambellifireworks.com [email protected] [email protected] Category: Pools Category: Fireworks

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