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Welcome to the 21st Annual Quiet Water Symposium Outdoor Michigan’s Favorite Indoor Show March 5, 2016 Michigan State University Pavilion 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM Admission: Adults—$10.00, Students w/id—$5.00, Under 12 Free The Quiet Water Society appreciates the support of our sponsors who also welcome you to the 21st Quiet Water Symposium. Williams Subaru Michigan State University Johnson’s Workbench Dept. of Agriculture & Natural Resources Eagle Monk Over here Mackinaw Watercraft.com The Quiet Water Symposium is a vehicle of The Quiet Water Society a 501 C –3 corporation under the IRS code. Table of Contents Page Letter from the Quiet Water Symposium Planning Committee Chair Person 3 The Verlen Kruger Award 4 Presentations: Presentation Schedule 17 Williams Subaru Main Stage 6—8 Grand River Room 9 –10 Red Cedar Room 11 AuSable Room 12—13 Betsie Room 14—15 Demonstrations 16 Door Prize and Raffle Information 18—19 Quiet Water Symposium Code of Conduct 19 Quiet Water Symposium Grants in Action 20—21 Up Coming Events 22—23 A Message from the Quiet Water Society President and Quiet Water Society Information 24—25 Floor Plans and Maps 26—28 Exhibitors 29—38 Show Sponsors 39 Using This Program - This program should be your guide to the 21st Quiet Water Symposium. Here you will find maps to locate each venue as well as speaker topics, bios, times and locations. You can use this program to find the booths of the many organizations that support the symposium. In addition, it has maps to help you locate all of our guest accommodations including restrooms, food and our information booth. Should you need personal assistance stop one of our volunteers, wearing the easy to spot red vests. The Quiet Water Society hopes you will keep this show program and use it as a reference to help you contact and patronize the organizations and businesses that attend the show and advertise here. The Mission of the Quiet Water Society: To educate the public and to encourage participation in non-motorized outdoor recreation; to promote pub- lic concern for the water resources of the Great Lakes Region; to support the environmental stewardship; and, conservation of natural resources and to plan and execute annual and special events for any or all of these purposes. Building on Our Mission—Quiet Water Society Grants In furtherance of our mission the Quiet Water Society uses funds generated from the Quiet Water Symposium to provide grants. Each year the Quiet Water Society considers applications for grant from non-profit civic organiza- tions and clubs. As you look through this show program please keep an eye out for the reports from the 2015 grantee. If your organization is in need of financial assistance for projects that are in harmony with our mission you may want to visit our web site and apply to be one of our 2016 grant awardees. QuietWaterSymposium.org The 21st Annual Quiet Water Symposium Greetings from Our Show Chairman Welcome Friends! The 21st Annual Quiet Water Symposium (QWS) brings together more and more people who have experienced the pleasure of pad- dling, hiking, cycling or one of the countless activities that make up outdoor recreation. Look around and you will see thousands of people, like yourself, here today to celebrate the joy of getting out… out of a building, out of a crowd, out of a rut, outside. The QWS Planning Committee proudly offers 33 presentations this year. They will again be led off by everyone’s favorite camping expert, Cliff Jacobson, who will present “Camping Secrets” on the Main Stage. One important camping skill is selecting a good campsite. In One Incredible Journey, Verlen Kruger wrote, “One of the highlights of most days was the delightful occasion of selecting just the right campsite. We always wanted a good place to land the canoe to unload and reload, and to secure it for the night. We wanted a high and dry, bug free spot, open to the breeze, a level spot for the tent, a sheltered convenient cooking spot, a safe place for a fire, stones for a fireplace and lots of available firewood.” Verlen Kruger is remembered each year when we present the Verlen Kruger Award. Since 2003, the award has gone to people who have taken the time to show others why they too would love to venture out. This year, the award will go to two remarkable people who have been tireless supporters of the Port Austin Kayak Symposium, the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center in Detroit and the Detroit Heritage River Water Trail. Please visit the Riverside Kayak Connection booth and congratulate our 2016 Verlen Kruger Award winners, Tiffany and Patrick Van DeHey. You have come today to learn about how to do more but also about how to give more. As the outdoors brings value to our lives, it also calls out from time to time when help is needed. We want the water we paddle to be clean and free flowing. We want the trails we walk to be free of litter, designed to prevent erosion and to lead us though healthy environments. Many of our over 130 exhibitors are dedicated to protecting the places we love and will gladly show you how to be part of the solution. All of our exhibitors have words of wisdom and knowledge to share that will let you see more, feel more and do more. QWS would not exist without our sponsors. Special thanks to our friends at MSU who have stood by us for 21 years to bring you the best possible symposium. Thanks also to Williams Subaru, who is again our “Main Stage Sponsor.” The Michigan Department of Natural Resources joins the QWS team and is a lead sponsor this year. Your attendance at QWS will continue to fund a program of grants administered by the Quiet Water Society. In 2015, a total of $9,000 was put back into communities to encourage outdoor recreation. You will find more details on these projects in the pages that follow. QWS is the work of a dedicated core of volunteers who have again given many hours to bring you the 2016 symposium. Some have served since the 1st QWS in 1996. Look for them in red vests and think about joining the team which will bring you the 22nd Annual QWS in 2017. Thanks for joining us today. Leave with the names of new places to explore, the email addresses of new friends with common in- terests, a renewed interest in taking the trip of a lifetime or maybe just a plan for a day that highlights the “delightful occasion of selecting just the right campsite”. Gary De Kock 2016 QWS Planning Committee Chair The Quiet Water Society Honors Great Stewardship The Verlen Kruger Award Verlen Kruger, a world record canoeist from Delta Mills, Michigan, was named “The River Guardian” at the 2003 Quiet Water Symposium. This was a heartfelt honor from the entire mid-Michigan paddling community. Ver- len was recognized for his outstanding achievements and records in paddle sports, for bringing international awareness to our environmentally sensitive waterways, and for fostering stewardship of our treasured water resources. As a further honor to Verlen, the award was named for him for subsequent years, becoming “The Verlen Kruger Award”. It is given annually to a person (or persons) who has supported and promoted paddle sports along with water conservation, education, or history in Michigan. The recipient of this award receives a commemorative paddle, and a brick on which the date and the name of the recipient is engraved. A duplicate brick will be added to the walkway around the Verlen Kruger Memorial located by the Grand River in Portland, Michigan. The recipient’s name is also en- graved on a plaque that is housed at the AuSable River Center in Roscommon, Michigan. This year, the award will go to two remarkable people who have been tireless supporters of the Port Austin Kayak Symposium, the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center in Detroit and the Detroit Heritage River Water Trail. Please visit the Riverside Kayak Connection booth and congratulate our 2016 Verlen Kruger Award winners, Tiffany and Patrick Van DeHey. Verlen Kruger Award Recipients 2003 2004 2005 2006 Verlen Kruger James C. Woodruff Janet Gross & Dave McCune Gloria Miller 2007 2008 2009 2010 Albert Schultz Dan Smith & Mike Smith Karl Pearson Charlie Parmalee 2011 2012 2013 2014 Doug Carter Jay Hanks Russ Hicks Jean Kinnear 2015 2016 2017 2018 Ron Sell Tiffany & Patrick Van DeHey The Quiet Water Symposium Planning Committee Over the course of the last year, the Planning Com- mittee has meet 13 times to create and coordinate the event you see here today. In addition, each member leads a subcommittee and puts in countless hours to bring you what we feel is a unique opportunity to come together to celebrate outdoor adventure. The members of this year’s Planning Committee are: Emma Bailey, Richard Bailey, Robin “Sweep” Barfoot, Doug Carter, Loretta Crum, Gary De Kock, Linda De Kock, Allen Deming, Mike Fila, Virginia Fila, Pat “Flipper” Harrington, Russ Hicks, Kathy Kulchinski, Jer- ry Link, Tim Machowicz, Tim Muhich, Jeff O'Boyle, Julie Powers, Rod Ritchison, George Stockman, Anita Twardesky and Gabriel Zawadzki. Without the original vision of Janet Gross and Dave McCune, 2005 Kruger Award winners, QWS would not have been launched back in 1996. The unselfish dedication of our Planning Committee members has maintained the Quiet Water Symposium’s fine tradition. This year is the 21st anniversary of the Quiet Water Symposium. Some members of our committee have served since the first symposium in 1996.
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