Convention 2015
May 28 - 31, 2015
Delta Bessborough Hotel
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Thursday May 28, 2015
7:30 am - 4:00 pm
Golfing
Dakota Dunes Golf Links
Registration
Noon - 8:00 pm
Bessborough Hotel, Terrace Room
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Welcome Reception
and Partners’ Showcase
9:00 pm - 2:00 am
Bessborough Hotel – Terrace Room
Social Time
Hospitality Suite - Terrace Room
Friday May 29, 2015
7:30 am
9:30 am - 1:00 pm
9:30 am - 1:00 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 & 3:00 pm
1:30 & 3:00 pm
6:00 pm
Breakfast - Speaker Jill Sauter
Bessborough Hotel – William Pascoe Room
Business Tours:
FloFORM & Superior Cabinets
Solar Gardens Tour
Break
Downtown Walking Tour
River Boat Tour
1910 Boomtown Cocktails
Western Development Museum
1910 Boomtown Reception & Dinner
Bare N Von Hair
Social Time
7:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm - 2:00 am
Hospitality Suite - Terrace Room
Saturday May 30, 2015
7:30 am
7:40 am
9:00 am
Breakfast
Breakfast - Speaker,
Jennifer Minor Johannson
Bessborough Hotel – Battleford Ballroom
Annual General Meeting
Bessborough Hotel - Adam Ballroom
Ukrainian Lunch in the Gardens
12:00 noon
Bessborough Hotel Gardens
Distillery Tour
Cocktails
1:30 & 2:30 pm
6:00 pm
Bessborough Hotel - Adam Ballroom
7:00 pm
9:00 pm
9:00 pm - 2:00 am
President’s Ball
Entertainment: Rock Candy
Social Time
Hospitality Suite - Terrace Room
Welcome
Reception
& Partners’
Showcase
Bessborough Hotel
6:00 to 9:00 pm
The Terrace Room
The Partners’ Showcase
will take place during
the Welcome Reception.
In a friendly and casual
atmosphere, the Partners
will present their respective
company’s new products and
offer a glimpse of
what’s ahead.
Come have a drink, enjoy
tasty appetizers and
join in some stimulating
conversations in the stunning
Terrace Room overlooking the
Bessborough Gardens and the
South Saskatchewan River.
Hospitality Suite
9:00 pm to 2:00 am
The Hospitality Suite is
located on the second floor
of the Bessborough Hotel and
includes a 2000 sq ft patio
overlooking the Bessborough
Gardens and the South
Saskatchewan River. Snacks,
drinks and a great time are
all included.
Each night of the conference,
the hospitality suite will be
open for new and old friends
to catch up while enjoying
views of Saskatoon.
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The Delta Bessborough Hotel
Historic charm awaits at this
4 diamond hotel. Wander the
gardens, walk along the South
Saskatchewan River or simply
soak in the architectural charm
of the hotel. Originally built as a
grand railway hotel it opened as
The Bessborough in 1935. Set on
the banks of the river, the hotel
is surrounded by five acres of
luxuriant gardens.
The hotel has an on-site fitness
centre, featuring state-of-the-art
equipment, pool, steam room,
sauna and whirlpool.
Online Booking:
https://www.deltahotels.com/
Groups/Delta-BessboroughGroups/AWMAC
Don’t forget to visit the Damara
Day Spa & Esthetics in the hotel
lobby to relax.
Registration
This year all registration will be done online at www.picatic.com/AWMAC2015. Simply select your delegate
type and any tours you would like to participate in for you, your colleagues and their partner / spouse.
Early Bird Registration until March 31, 2015 $530.00
AWMAC Delegate / Spouse / Guest $580.00
AWMAC Lifetime Member Delegate (Promotional Codes will be sent to you) $425.00
Golfing at Dakota Dunes Golf Links – Thursday, May 28 (includes breakfast & lunch) $180.00
Business Tour: FloFORM and Superior Cabinets – Friday, May 29 (9:30 am - 1:00 pm, includes lunch) Leisure Tour: Solar Gardens – Friday, May 29 (9:30 am - 1:00 pm, includes succulent & lunch) FREE
$40.00
Downtown Walking Tour (Group 1) – Friday, May 29 (1:30 - 2:30 pm – 80 people/group) FREE
Downtown Walking Tour (Group 2) – Friday, May 29 (3:00 - 4:00 pm – 80 people/group) FREE
River Boat Tour (Group 1) – Friday, May 29 (1:30 - 2:30 pm – 80 people/group) FREE
River Boat Tour (Group 2) – Friday, May 29 (3:00 - 4:00 pm – 80 people/group) FREE
Lucky Bastard Distillery Tour (Group 1) – Saturday, May 30 (1:00 - 2:30 pm – 35 people/group) $10.00
Lucky Bastard Distillery Tour (Group 2) – Saturday, May 30 (2:00 - 3:30 pm – 35 people/group) $10.00
Lucky Bastard Distillery Tour (Group 3) – Saturday, May 30 (3:00 - 4:30 pm – 35 people/group) $10.00
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Thursday May 28, 2015 – Dakota Dunes Golf Links, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
AWMAC Saskatchewan “Feelin’ Good in the Land of Living Skies” Scramble
Located on the historical
Whitecap Dakota First Nation
lands at the heights of the South
Saskatchewan River Valley Basin,
Dakota Dunes Golf Links opened
to the public April 30th, 2004.
This 18-hole, full service, natural
masterpiece is the province’s only
complete Graham Cooke, CookeCarleton designed golf property.
Dakota Dunes Golf Links is laid
spaciously throughout natural
Whatever your ability to play,
you will find the yardage and
challenge to fit your game.
sand dune formations and the
indigenous prairie grasses that
surround its edges. There are five
tee deck yardages ranging from
5,100 to 7,300 yards. Undulating
fairways with large greens will
welcome shots of every shape.
Friday May 29, 2015
Golfers will experience the everchanging beauty and character.
Flora changes regularly
throughout the golf season.
Crocuses, cactus flowers, wild
roses, yellow violets and more
repaint the dune-scapes and the
rugged land that frames in this
golf course.
Solar Gardens Tour
Breakfast Speaker:
Jill Sauter,
Marketing Strategist
Attract and Retaining the Best People
Learn how companies use marketing to find and
keep employees, reducing cost and productivity
loss associated with turnover / recruiting in a
tight labour market. Jill will demonstrate how
organizations like yours are proactively creating
an organization people want to work for. Take
away practical tips on developing the reputation
as an employer of choice in your community.
For those not partaking in the business tours,
sit back and enjoy the scenery enroute to Solar
Gardens, just outside the city on the riverbank.
You will enjoy a hands-on class exploring the basic
principles of arranging, planting, caring for and
overwintering a succulent terracotta
bowl. We will receive a tour of the
greenhouses, sample balsamic
vinegars, oils and gourmet
foods and we will have fun
“making our own” pizza using
the wood fired oven.
Downtown Walking Tour
River Boat Tour
Enjoy a boat cruise on the Prairie Lily. You’ll see
the natural beauty of the Meewasin Valley, the
welcoming of our downtown, the friendliness of
River Landing and the personality of our living river.
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Join tour guides from
the Meewasin Valley
Centre in a walking
tour of Downtown
Saskatoon, viewing
historical information
and architecture from
gargoyles to cupids.
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1910 Boomtown Evening Western Development Museum
We will take you back
in time when the clipclop of horses filled the
air. You don’t just visit
this museum, you live
it! You will be having
drinks and dinner on
the street of Boomtown
1910 at the Western
Development Museum.
This indoor street is
a to-scale replica of a
town in Saskatchewan.
Saturday May 30, 2015
Breakfast Speaker:
Jenn Minor Johannson,
Certified Coach
Learn How to Better Achieve Work/Life
Balance for You and Your Employees
Jenn will explore with us the ways we CAN make
work-life balance a reality. Today, more than
ever, wellness and balance is a priority.
Health + Wellness = Performance & Profitability
Business Tours
FloFORM Saskatoon Stone Plant
AWMAC member FloFORM has been in business
for over 54 years starting out in Winnipeg servicing
both residential
and commercial
clients. While
FloFORM started
out supplying laminate tops, it now has expanded
to solid surface, wood, granite and quartz. With
its laminate-post-form manufacturing plant in
Winnipeg and stone fabrication plants in Saskatoon,
Edmonton and Seattle, they have branches from
Winnipeg to Victoria (and northwest USA). The
stone plant in Saskatoon is the most up-to-date,
state-of-the-art shop of its size in western Canada
which inventories approximately 1,400 full slabs of
quartz and granite.
Superior Cabinets
Lucky Bastard Distillery Tour
Saskatoon was founded as a temperance
colony, but no longer! Enjoy a tour
and taste of Lucky Bastard Distillery,
Saskatchewan’s premium micro
distillery. Their passion is bottling the
finest liqueurs and spirits.
Superior Cabinets, a kitchen cabinet manufacturing
company based in Saskatoon was started in 1980
by Charles Larry and has since become an industry
leader in kitchen
design and product
innovation. With
over 300 staff (150 in
production) and 50,000 sq ft, Superior has managed
to generate over $45 million in annual sales
throughout Western Canada.
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Things to do in Saskatoon
Samurai Japanese
Restaurant
Delta Bessborough Hotel
306-683-6912
The Samurai offers a spectacular
dining experience where the chef
puts on a performance right in
front of your eyes as you sit at
your very own teppanyaki table!
Aroma Mediterranean
Resto-Bar
405 20th Street East
306-667-2358
Restaurants
If you like food, come to Saskatoon - it is that simple. The dining
experience is unrivaled and with more restaurants, per capita, than
any city in Canada. With everything from specialty deli shops to a
rustic Italian pizza joint, we have you covered. Lovers of ethnic cuisine
will find authentic Mexican, Burmese, Indian, Thai and Jamaican
restaurants. Looking for more waist-friendly options? Or have a specific
dietary requirement? Rest assured, there are plenty of veggie and
gluten-free eateries to choose from. Without a doubt, you will stay
happily satiated. Here are just a few downtown options.
Ayden Kitchen and Bar
Carver’s Steakhouse
265 3rd Avenue South
Sheraton Cavalier Hotel
306-954-2590
612 Spadina Crescent East
aydenkitchenandbar.com
306-652-6770
Top Chef Canada Winner Dale
www.carverssteakhouse.ca
Mackay and his executive
Carver’s offers AAA beef as well as
team (Nathan Guggenheimer
Saskatchewan raised meat (trout
- Executive Chef and Butcher,
and boar) and fresh local produce
Christopher Cho - General
when possible.
Manager and Mixologist, Jesse
Garden Court Café
Zuber - Head Chef) offers
homegrown and globally inspired
Delta Bessborough Hotel
comfort food, focusing on
306-683-6912
seasonal and local ingredients.
The Garden Court Café offers a
Providing handcrafted cocktails
classic dining experience with
and craft beers in a relaxed and
views of the spectacular gardens
inviting setting.
and river.
Serves local cuisine with a
Mediterranean twist. This openconcept kitchen centered around
their ‘wood stone fired’ oven
makes for an experience you
won’t soon forget, not to mention
the taste of their famous wood
stone fired pizzas!
Rembrandt’s – Fine
Dining and Wine Bar
243 21st Street East
306-244-8555
Rembrandt’s beautiful Victorian
dining room offers fine cuisine
and wines that will melt away the
stress of the day!
The James Lobby Bar
adjacent to the
Sheraton Cavalier
620 Spadina Crescent East
306-244-6446
The classic design of this bar,
along with its art deco flare,
makes for a relaxing place to
enjoy the beautiful scenery of the
South Saskatchewan River Valley.
Enjoy fine wine, vintage cocktails
and ‘get away’ with its European
inspired fare.
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Shopping
Midtown Plaza
201 1st Avenue South
Located in the heart of Downtown, this is truly
where fashion comes first! Their exclusive mix
of stylish retailers including over 130 stores and
services is sure to satisfy your shopping needs.
Local boutiques and shops along 21st Street
(towards Midtown Plaza) and along 2nd Avenue
and 1st Avenue across from Midtown Plaza.
Durand’s
Beneath It All Lingerie
Women’s well-crafted and unique footwear
255 2nd Avenue South | http://durands.ca
234 1st Avenue South
Anthony’s Fashion For Men Tonic – A Shop For Women
234 1st Avenue South
122 2nd Avenue North
The Trading Post
Unique Textiles & Sewing
226 2nd Avenue South
Fabric for quilting and garment sewing
234 1st Avenue South
Sources: http://www.tourismsaskatoon.com and
downtownsaskatoon.com
Farmers’ Market 414 Avenue B South
Only a short five-minute walk from the hotel.
Walk around to see the best in local agricultural
products, baking, prepared foods and crafts as well
as performers. The City’s former electrical garage
was renovated to form an indoor Farmers’ Market
and public market.
Vendor Hours: Saturday – 8:00 am to 2:00 pm,
Sunday – 10:00 am to 3:00 pm while the
merchants are also open Tuesday to Friday
from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Skills Canada National Competition: May 28 & 29, 2015
Prairieland Park (10 minute cab ride) Free Admission
www.skillscanada.com
Skills/Compétences Canada (SCC) is a national
organization with member organizations in
each province and territory across Canada. SCC
is a national, not-for-profit organization that
works with employers, educators, labour groups
and governments to promote skilled trades and
technology careers among Canadian youth. Our
unique position among private and public sector
partners enables us to work toward securing
Canada’s future skilled labour needs while helping
youth to discover rewarding careers.
• Over 40 competitions; over 500 competitors
• One demonstration competition: Sprinkler Systems
• Over 40 Try-A-Trade® and Technology activities
• Essential Skills Stage: the nine essential skills
will be tied in to all competition activities:
Try–A-Trade® and Technology, contest areas,
as well as on-stage events being held
throughout the day.
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Convention 2015
Proudly hosted by the AWMAC Saskatchewan Chapter
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