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**AREA 2016 -A FEW PHOTOS
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Barb, Ti, Maria, Karen. Welcome Participants!
We memorized and used these reasons to attend.
Titus Piper with swag bags galore. Barb Gigar with coffee and a smile.
Ti Piper, Ben Jelsema, Bill Pepito, and Karen Marks.
Mmmmmmmm. NCTC fed us good!
Mark Gintert, a popular sponsor. TBF National Youth Director
Explore Bowfishing. Rule 1. Learn to use a bow and arrow. Fly Fishing Casting Practice. Pure Poetry in Motion!
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Historic boat at NCTC archives. Karen and Maria studied it.
NCTC was the perfect venue for AREA.
Amazing Maria Parisi who is the most valued Karen Marks 2016 President, Barb Gigar 2014 President
Boy Scouts: Bill Pepito and Ben Jelsema Watershed Education Crowd
AREA 2016 Scholarship Recipients
Distance Award, traveled 1700+ miles one way to be at the conference.
From the Commonwealth of the National Marinara Islands.
Wilgene Dela Cruz and Michael Tenorio
Special recognition to Ti Piper, outgoing secretary.
Ti Piper retired last year from being an ARE contractor for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
Ti has served in a number of leadership roles for Aquatic Resources Education Association (AREA). Since retirement he is serving as AREA secretary and has been working very hard to consolidate AREA records and prepare for the upcoming conference. Ti is one of the AREA members from the beginning - 1994. This is especially important because, as a contractor, he paid his own expenses to the conferences.
AREA had a special honor for Ti at the conference. Not a plaque or fishing equipment, but a check in his honor to Bamboo Bend, http://www.bamboobend.org/, a charity which works to provide veterans with some healing fishing and rod crafting, and a charity Ti supports.
Incoming AREA Board for January 01, 2017 through December 31, 2018
Treasurer Steve Marshall Florida
Far West Region Lori Adams Idaho
North-Central Region Michael Brand Missouri
Northeast Region Kim Sullivan Rhode Island
President-Elect Larry Pape Nebraska
Secretary Lindsey Chizinski Nebraska
President Karen Marks Texas
Pacific Region Katie Nalesere
Southeast Region Bill Pepito Florida