Daily update—Tuesday, Feb. 3
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The 2009 International Roofing Expo begins today at the Mandalay Bay Convention
Center in Las Vegas. Registration booths will be open today from 6:45 a.m. to 5
p.m. at the convention center. Activities will begin at 7:45 a.m. with Hanley Wood's
educational conferences followed by Bill Walton's keynote address at 9:45 a.m. The
exhibit hall will open at 11 a.m., and the welcome party will be held from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. at Tao.
Today's activities also include NRCA's Future Executives Institute lunch at 11:30
a.m.; NRCA's Roofing Council luncheon meeting at noon; and the National Roofing
Legal Resource Center board meeting at 2 p.m. Each of these events will be held
at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. In addition, the Future Executives Institute
will be in session from 1 to 5 p.m. and its informational session and reception,
by invitation only, will start at 6:30 p.m.
Yesterday afternoon, golfers met at Angel Park Golf Club to support ROOFPAC, NRCA's
political action committee, in a shotgun-start tournament. Winners of this year's
tournament were:
Best ball
1st place
- Ashley Dewitt
- Sandee Dewitt
- Lawrence Yaremchuk
- Arthur Valentz
Scramble
1st place
- Brian Dembowski
- Gene Smith
- Don Barris
- Tom Griffin
Dane Bradford getting ready to drive at the Richard Petty Rookie
Experience event.
At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, ROOFPAC held its first Richard Petty Rookie Experience
and high-performance kart racing events.
Winners of the Richard Petty high-performance kart racing event
1st—Bill Honzik; 2nd—Mark Gaulin; 3rd—Dean Dressen
The golf and speedway events were held to raise money for ROOFPAC and support pro-business
candidates.