PLCAA Legislative Day Includes Cemetery Care Day

Now in its fourth year, opening ceremonies for the environmental enhancement project will begin at 8 a.m. at Arlington cemetery and will feature remarks by PLCAA President Jerry Grossi and PLCAA board member and veteran Louis Kobus Jr. The ceremony will be held at a renovated garden site prepared last year by PLCAA members Environmental Care Inc. and U.S. Lawns of Calabasas, Calif., and Village Turf Inc. of Mount Vernon, Va. These companies designed and landscaped the Arlington garden site in time for a May 27, 1999, planting of a new rose variety called Veterans’ Honor™ by Jackson & Perkins.

PLCAA’s Renewal & Remembrance project is held in conjunction with the Association’s 11th annual Legislative Day on the Hill on July 24-25 in Washington, D.C. After a morning at Arlington and Congressional cemeteries, lawn and landscape attendees will meet one-on-one with their representatives on the Hill. The issues that will be discussed range from small business liability reform to regulatory fairness and openness of food quality protection.

In preparation for these congressional visits, Legislative Day attendees listened to experts discuss top issues and legislative subjects with special emphasis on bills, measures, and regulations affecting small businesses and the green industry. Senior Vice President of Congressional and Public Affairs Lonnie Taylor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was the featured speaker.

Co-sponsors of the Renewal & Remembrance project and Legislative Day on the Hill include FMC, Novartis, American Cyanamid, Bayer Corporation, Dow AgroSciences and Aventis. Contributors include Lesco Inc., The Andersons and IMERYS.

For more information about the Renewal & Remembrance project and Legislative Day on the Hill visit PLCAA’s web site at www.plcaa.org.