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• APT WGLC Bowling Social and Annual Meeting

  • When
    Monday, March 09, 2020
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Southport Lanes, 3325 N. Southport Ave, Chicago 60657
  • Spaces left
    15

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  Please join APT WGLC for bowling and networking on Monday, March 9th!

  The event includes two lanes of bowling, shoe rental, and an appetizer buffet. Drinks are available for purchase. Attendance is free for APT WGLC members and $10.00 for non-members. 

  A short presentation about APT WGLC's initiatives and efforts in 2019 will be given.

  Registration is open through March 6th, 2020.

  Street parking is available and the venue is near Southport Brown line stop. 

  
  

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• 2020 Symposium: Masonry: History, Materials, and Repair

  • When
    Thursday, March 19, 2020
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    7:45 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    IMI Training Center 2140 West Corporate Drive, Addison, IL 60101
  • Spaces left
    9
  • Registered
    46 registrants

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  The Association of Preservation Technology, Western Great Lakes Chapter (APT WGLC) along with the International Masonry Institute invites you to attend the 2020 Symposium – Masonry: History, Materials, and Repair.  The symposium will consist of professional presentations in the morning and multiple hands-on stations featuring masonry restoration skills taught by IMI staff in the afternoon. Stations will include repointing, terra cotta glaze repair, stone patching, and terra cotta installation mock-ups.
  

  The event will be held at the IMI Training Center, 2140 West Corporate Drive, Addison, IL 60101.

  Check-in begins at 7:45 am, presentations begin at 8:15 am.

  This program will provide 6 CEUs HSW. Lunch and light breakfast will be provided during the program. Parking is available on site. 

  
  

  Presentations include: 

  • Edward Gerns and Matthew Novesky:  Alternate Materials for Terra Cotta Restoration: So Many Issues, So Many Options
  • Jason Pederson, Elizabeth Manning and Kevin Vazquez:  Modification of a Historic Structure – The Minnesota Museum of American Art
  • Casie Radford and Phil Gagne:  Jacob Schmidt Brewery: Rathskeller Floor Restoration
  • Kevin Vazquez and Elizabeth Manning:  Investigation and Repair of Masonry Separation at St. Bernard’s Church Bell Towers
  • Rachel Michelin and Lee Fink:  Revitalizing Downtown Peoria: Adaptive Reuse of the Big White Store
  • Kenneth Itle:  Water Leakage in Masonry Buildings

  
  

  Symposium abstracts and flier available at: http://www.aptwglc.com/Annual-Symposium!

  
  

                    
  

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• Hands-On Plaster Workshop

  • When
    Saturday, April 11, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    505 Harvester Court, Unit B, Wheeling, IL. 60090
  • Spaces left
    20

  Join us for a hands-on plaster workshop!  More details to follow.

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