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Contact: Sabeena Hickman
Phone: (703) 736-9666
E-mail: Sabeena Hickman

PLANET LAUNCHES NEW EDUCATOR MENTORING PROGRAM

HERNDON, Va., September 5, 2008 — The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) is pleased to provide a new mentoring initiative that will give PLANET faculty members the opportunity to share best practices. Paralleling PLANET’s landscape and lawn care Trailblazers, Educator Trailblazers set aside a full day each year to provide on-site mentoring to another PLANET green industry educator. This in-depth, personalized networking and mentoring program is a unique way for educational institutions with more established horticultural programs to offer insight and advice to educational institutions that are developing and growing their horticulture programs.

PLANET’s Educator Trailblazers are a group of dedicated educators who were nominated by their peers for their significant and long-term contributions to the green industry. Direct influencers in the green industry, these individuals are committed to helping their peers grow their horticulture programs, as well as helping the green industry grow. The Educator Trailblazers will be recognized during PLANET’s Green Industry Conference, October 22–25, 2008, in Louisville, Kentucky.

PLANET’s first-ever Educator Trailblazers are:

Phil Allen, Ph. D. 
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah

Richard Ansley
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Ohio

Rex Bishop
North Metro Technical College
Acworth, Georgia

Steven Cohan, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

Laura Deeter, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University ATI
Wooster, Ohio

Kent Hammond
(Retired)
Wooster, Ohio

Martha Hill
Hinds Community College
Raymond, Mississippi

Jack Ingels
SUNY Cobleskill
Cobleskill, New York

Catherine Lavis, Ph.D.
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Randey Wall
Illinois Central College
East Peoria, Illinois

For more information about the Educator Trailblazers program, e-mail Gail Rogers or call (800) 395-2522.

PLANET is the association of members who create and maintain the QUALITY OF LIFE in communities across America. With more than 4,200 member companies and affiliates, these firms and their employees represent more than 100,000 green industry professionals.