s e c t io n news In the year ahead, our newly elected ITE SA executive team will continue to support member needs and coordinate events that build our transportation community through learning, networking and sharing our successes. Round table discussions in December indicate our membership is interested in local projects, emerging technologies, health and transportation, and aesthetic infrastructure. These topics will be highlighted in our activities, presentations, and discussions throughout 2017.
Your newly elected 2017 ITE SA executive team is: • • • • • •
Cory Wilson – Past President Irini Akhnoukh – President (incumbent) Meera Kopp – Vice President (incumbent) Monique Castonguay – Treasurer (incumbent) Dale Lynch – Secretary (incumbent) Zoran Carkic – Publicity Coordinator (new)
For more information on these and other ITE SA section events, please email southernalberta@cite7.org.
MANITOBA SECTION It is a whole new world for the Manitoba Section lately with our move to the Masonic Temple for our monthly luncheons. We are very grateful to the Roundtable Restaurant who were very accommodating of our group and provided some incredible food for us over the last several years. Following our September 2016 Golf Tournament, we started back to holding regular lunches throughout the fall. Our October meeting had Keenan Patmore of MORR Transportation Consulting giving an overview of a recently completed TAC project, the National Guidelines for Work Zone Safety. (See photo below.) Mark Warkentin of MMM Group and Kris Maranchuk of Manitoba Infrastructure made a joint presentation at our November meeting describing an ongoing interchange project happening at the intersection of Winnipeg’s
Perimeter Highway and Provincial Trunk Highway 59 on the north side of the city. The interchange is expected to open in Fall 2018. We closed out 2016 with another joint presentation in December by Colleen Sklar, Executive Director of the Partnership of the Manitoba Capital Region and Bob Kurylko of Stantec. Colleen and Bob provided an informative overview of the Development of the Regional Growth Strategy for the Manitoba Capital Region. Also during the December meeting, we held a short annual general meeting where we bade farewell to Jon Regeher as Past President and welcomed a new member to Manitoba’s Executive Committee, Nini Nytepchuk. The Manitoba Section would like to thank Jon for his 10 years of service to ITE! Below: Keenan Patmore presenting at ITE Manitoba’s very first monthly luncheon to be held at the Masonic Temple in Winnipeg.
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