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Southern Chapter

Update

By: Frank Wittie, PLS

Our May membership meeting was a luncheon on Thursday,
May 19 at Lawry’s The Prime Rib, our guest speakers presented
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about NDOT’s Tropicana/I15 project that has since kicked off.
We did not have a scheduled membership meeting for June or
July as we try to focus on events such as Aviators Night and
the Railroad Grant Seminar. Our August Membership meeting
was cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. Our September
Membership Meeting will be the evening of September 15th. It
will be our Annual Agency Surveyors Meeting. Guest speakers
will be Alan Riekki – City of Las Vegas, Dustin Crowther – Clark
County, Gary Hancock – North Las Vegas, and Michael Kidd
– City of Henderson. In place or our membership meeting in
October will be a Seminar and Golf Tournament in Mesquite.
The Seminar will be on Friday the 21 followed by a Pool
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Party and Saturday morning will be the Golf Tournament at
Casablanca Golf Club.

On Saturday, June 25 , SNALS hosted a get together at the year’s golf tournament to the company or individual member
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Las Vegas Ballpark to enjoy some minor league baseball. who submits the most GPS on Bench Marks observations to
Unfortunately, the Las Vegas Aviators lost to the Albuquerque the NGS by September 30 , 2022. If you or anyone on your
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Isotopes, but it was a beautiful night to be at the ballpark. staff would like to pursue CST certification, please reach out
to the board and we will help arrange a test.

Our July 9 Railroad Grant Seminar by Duane Price- was
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postponed to August 6th. Duane gave an in depth look at how
and why the railroads acquired their land and what evidence
of prior railroads could look like on the ground. We attempted
to record the seminar for those who could not make it, but we
had audio issues. Duane told me that he is willing to present
this seminar again in the future, so keep an eye out.

Please do not forget that SNALS is offering a foursome in this

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