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Location: Holiday Inn and Suites Kamloops
The Holiday Inn and Suites in Kamloops offers a room rate of $ 99.00/night for the semiannual. This is not the Holiday Inn Express.
Book using the code BEE. If the code is not used then the rate will be higher. You can book via the Holiday Inn web site, the central reservations at 1.877.517.6508 or the hotel direct 250.376.8288.
Check out the Holiday Inn and Suites at www.holidayinn.com/kamloopsbc It is a new hotel and it has all the amenities. A block booking code will be published as soon as it becomes available.
- Friday March 16: Food safety and HACCP based introduction to upcoming honey industry changes and regulations at Thompson Rivers University. Fee $20 includes lunch.
- Saturday March 17: Business Meeting. Free. Lunch will be available.
- Sunday March 18: Educational presentations. TBA.
The BCHPA will be at the PACIFIC AGRICULTURE SHOW
Tradex Exhibition Centre (Abbotsford Airport),
Abbotsford, BC
January 26-28, 2012
Thursday – Saturday 9:00am – 4:30pm
Admission is $10.00 at the door. Parking is Free
Pollinators across the province – the BCHPA will provide visitors with your current contact information. Please contact Stan Reist at flydutch@telus.net for more information.
Want to help? Please contact Stan Reist at flydutch@telus.net if you are available to put in a shift at the booth or if you are able to donate some of your BC honey as a fundraiser for sale at the agricultural show.
BEE MASTER 2012 Short Course.
The Bee Master 2012 course will be held at UBC’s Vancouver campus from February 20 – 24, 2012.
This biennial course was first introduced by the late John Corner, BC Provincial Apiculturist in the mid-1950s and has since then developed into a course attracting students from BC, western Canada, the USA and abroad.
The one-week intensive course is intended for experienced beekeepers to offer a wide-range of topics about the science and research behind the fundamentals of beekeeping management.
The course also involves a voluntary 3-hour final exam. Course participants are not required to write and pass the exam unless they wish to obtain their Bee Master certificate.
For more information about the speakers, tentative program, costs, accommodation and registration instructions, please visit www.agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/beemasters<http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/apiculture/beemasters> or www.beemasters.ca/beemasters<http://www.beemasters.ca/beemasters>
Paul van Westendorp
Provincial Apiculturist
British Columbia
The Winter issue of BeesCene is out! Please remember to renew your membership and insurance. The membership form is on page 44 of your BeesCene.
Meet the newest members of your Executive elected to a two-year term at the AGM October 21, 2011
Our new executive members;
- 1St Vice President Eric Stromgren, Abbotsford
- 2nd Vice President Butch Richardson, Pritchard
- Secretary Janice Bobic, Burnaby
They join the continuing executive members;
- President Stan Reist, Nanaimo
- Treasurer Pauline Thompson, Comox and
- CHC Representative Gerry McKee, Burnaby
Contact information for the executive can be found here.
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