THE LAWN INSTITUTE—YOUR FOUNDATION Thank You Thank You to ALL TLI 2015 Donors

The Lawn Institute sincerely thanks all members that have donated to The Foundation for the 2015 calendar year. In recognition of the 500 Club members, the list below is of all who have donated $500 or more as of Oct 1, 2015.

A. Duda & Sons, Inc.—Tom Temple Bethel Farms—Will Nugent Blue Grass Sod Farms, Ltd.—Bruce McEwen Blue Valley Sod, Inc.—Bob Weerts Brouwer Kesmac—Eric Brouwer Brouwer Sod Farms, Ltd.,—Gerry Brouwer Bucyrus Equipment Company, Inc.—Steven Dover Central Sod Farms of Maryland, Inc.—Thomas Warpinski Coombs Sod Farms, LLC—John Coombs Coosa Valley Turf Farms—Thomas Wolf Dahle Sod Farm—Leon Dahle Eagle Lake Professional Landscape Supply—Eric Heuver Emerald View Turf Farm—Eddie Keeven, Jr. Evergreen Turf, Inc.—Jeff Nettleton Evergreen Turf South Africa—Fanus Cloete Grassland Oregon—Duane Klundt Green Grass—Marcelo Matte Greenhorizons Group-Hamilton Sod—Steve Schiedel Heritage Turf, Inc.—Ron Nixon Jacklin Seed by Simplot—Jim Kinservik Jasperson Sod Farms—The Jasperson Family Joe Cooling & Sons, Inc.—Tim Cooling John Deere Landscapes—Michelle Williams K’ntucky Turf—Duaine Anderson Laytonsville Landscaping, Inc.—Doug Lechlider

McCall Sod Farm, Inc.—James Maulden Medina Sod Farms, Inc.—Scott Gregoire Modern Turf, Inc.—Hank Kerfoot Oregon Turf & Tree Farms—Tom DeArmond Pennington Seed, Inc.—Russ Nicholson Progressive Turf Equipment Inc.—Luke Janmaat R & R Products—Tom Rogers Reid Sod Farm—Randall Reid Sales Midwest, Inc.—Tim Wollesen Saratoga Sod Farm, Inc.—Steve & Laurie Griffen SelecTurf Inc.—Jim Keeven Sod Solutions—Tobey Wagner Somerset Seed & Sod, Inc.—Andy Hutchison Southwest Sod Inc.—Matt & Jim Smith TAMANET USA—Angel Lopez Thomas Turfgrass—Emory Thomas Thomas Turfgrass—Seth Thomas Trebro Manufacturing, Inc.—Gregg Tvetene Tri-Turf Sod Farms, Inc.—Jason Pooler Tulsa Grass & Sod Farms, Inc.—Richard Stunkard Turf Merchants Inc.—Nancy Aerni Turf Mountain Sod, Inc.—Fred Pittillo Winstead Turf Farms, Inc.—Bobby Winstead Zander Sod Co. Limited—Claus Zander

NOW ACCEPTING RESEARCH GRANTS The Lawn Institute invites researchers to submit grant proposals by December 1, 2015

NOW ACCEPTING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS Deadline for scholarship applications is January 8, 2016

For more information on both of these programs, please visit TheLawnInstitute.org.

PERSONALIZE THE NEXT PAGE (Helpful Hints from The Lawn Institute) and insert your company’s business address and contact information by going to http://www.TheLawnInstitute.org/pages/helpful-hints-from-the-lawn-institute/ to access The Lawn Institute’s easy-to-use template. You can then print and share this information with your customers—it’s free! The OPEI Infographic on the following page is available on the TLI website under “Helpful Hints” in its entirety for downloading.

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