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Southern Chapter JUNE
June 26th – SNALS Social Event - Las Vegas Aviators baseball
game – time TBD
Update JULY

July 9th – SNALS Educational Event – Railroad Seminar (4 hours)
Prepared by Frank Wittie, PLS - time/location TBD
Last month we had our holiday party at Lawry’s Prime Rib, it was
our first holiday party since 2019. The room was a bit cramped, AUGUST
but that was actually a good feeling having 46 people show up. August 18th - SNALS General Membership meeting – Lunch
At the holiday party Robert Carrington, our 2022 NALS President, meeting – location TBD
administered the Oath of Office to the continuing and new SNALS
board members that were in attendance. SEPTEMBER
September 15th - SNALS General Membership meeting –
For the first time in SNALS history all of the officers are past Agency Surveyors Roundtable - location TBD
presidents. The 2022 SNALS board consists of Frank Wittie (past
president 2021), President; Trent Keenan (past president 2011), OCTOBER
Vice President; Doug Wood (past president 2016), Treasurer; Sean October 21st - Continuing Education Seminar– Mesquite –
Corkill (past president 2014), Secretary; Directors: Richard Ariotti; TopicTBD
William Brown, and Verland Pierson. SNALS has been asking for October 21st-22nd – NALS Education Foundation Golf
more people to volunteer, and with our new CB&L’s we were able Tournament – Mesquite
to get two new directors who are not licensed land surveyors,
Heather Keenan and Sam Mendez. They are both members of the NOVEMBER
Nevada YSN, Heather being the head of the YSN here in Southern November 17th – SNALS General Membership meeting –
Nevada. location TBD
As many of you know the NGS’s GPS on Bench Marks campaign DECEMBER
has been extended for another year. In an effort to encourage
more participation in the campaign, SNALS is offering a foursome December 2nd – SNALS Christmas Party – Lawry’s THE Prime
in this year’s golf tournament to the company or individual Rib - 6:00 pm
who submits the most observations to the NGS from now
until September 30 , 2022. See the attached flyer for more
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information. SNALS will be bring back the Mapping Contest this
year, but it will be a little different. It will be open to anyone, not
just PLS’s. Another change is everyone will be working on the
same map and the entries will be blindly judged against each other,
apples to apples, by the past presidents at our Past Presidents
Dinner in November. Keep an eye out for more information on the
mapping contest. See the attached events calendar for dates of
our upcoming meetings and social events.

NALS was approached by CSN, asking for help to get a bachelor’s
degree in Land Surveying up and running. Part of that help is
showing that there is a need for such a program in Southern
Nevada. NALS sent out an email to the principles of most/if
not all the surveying companies in Nevada asking for a letter of
support for a program that also expressed your company’s current
personnel needs to be sent to CSN. If you did not receive the email,
please reach out to anyone on the board and we will get it to you.
This is an amazing opportunity, and we need everyone’s support.
The SNALS board would like to encourage everyone in our
community to support the CST program through the NSPS. It
certainly has its flaws, but it is all we currently have to support our
staff who are may not pursue a degree. Trent Keenan is a proctor
here in Southern Nevada, if anyone on your staff would like to test,
please reach out to the board and we will get it set up.
Upcoming SNALS Events:
APRIL
April 23rd – SNALS Picnic – Centennial Hills Park 6851 N Buffalo
Dr. (Site D) – 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
MAY
May 19th – SNALS General Membership meeting – Lunch
meeting – location TBD
42 The Nevada Traverse Vol.49, No.1, 2022