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SUMMARY:2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
DESCRIPTION:Annual General Meeting 2026\nThis year the Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in person and virtually on Saturday March 21\, 2026 at the Devon Community Centre in Devon\, Alberta at no charge to participants. \n\n\nLocation is:\nDevon Community Centre\n20 Haven Avenue\nDevon\, Alberta T9G 2B9 Canada \n\nThe Devon Community Centre opens to the membership at 9:30 a.m. and the AGM starts at 10:00 a.m. Breakfast pastries and lunch will be provided for those attending in-person. \nThe AGM will be held in accordance with the Society Bylaws and will include \n\nReports on the work of the Society in 2025\nThe 2025 Audited Financial Statements\nElections of board members – there are vacancies on the board. If you are interested in joining the board you may complete a nomination form here.\n\nAMS Merchandise will be available for sale\nRSVP below for AGMOnly members with an active AMS membership can vote at the AGMAGM Agenda\n\n\n\n\nAGM Minutes 2025\n\n\n\n\nProposed Bylaw Change\n\n\n\n\n2025 Balance Sheet – Audited\n\n\n\n\n2025 Profit & Loss Statement – Audited\n\n\n\n\n2026 Proposed Budget\n\n\n\n\n2026 Membership Report\n\n\n\n\nAnnual General Meeting Presentation A Resilient Planet Needs Fungi Now: The Secret Lives of Fungi  \nOverview: Fungi are weird\, fungi are cool\, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters\, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. Discover the crazy\, wonderful life that goes on all around us\, mostly hidden in plain sight. \nBritt A. Bunyard\, PhDBritt A. Bunyard\, PhD\, is the founder\, Publisher\, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi\, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals\, and mushroom guide books. \nA popular evangelizer on all things fungal\, Britt has given more than 250 invited lectures to academic and popular audiences across North America and beyond. He has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Newshour\, NPR’s All Things Considered\, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine\, The Atlantic\, National Geographic\, Vox\, Vogue\, Forbes\, Saveur\, Eating Well\, Hobby Farm\, Women’s World\, and other magazines and newspapers. \nBritt has collected fungi and lectured throughout North and South America\, Europe\, and Asia. Annually\, he leads mycological expeditions throughout the world. One such expedition\, was the subject of an award-winning documentary film “Look Down Not Up” (2022)\, produced by documentary filmmakers Alok Siddhi Tuladhar and Dusty Shiva Panthi of Kathmandu\, Nepal. \nBritt has authored several books\, including The Lives of Fungi (2022; Princeton University Press) which is sold all over the world and translated into Italian\, German\, Spanish\, and Chinese languages. Additional titles include Fungi of the World: A Guide to All Phyla (2026; Princeton University Press)\, Atlas of Fungi (2026; Princeton University Press)\, Fungi Decoded (2025; Penguin Random House)\, The Little Book of Fungi (2024; Princeton University Press)\, The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021; Quarry Books)\, Amanitas of North America (2020; The Fungi Press)\, and\nMushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012; The Ohio State University Press). \nComing in 2027: Fungi: A Practical Field Guide (Quarry Books). \nBritt has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2014 and was awarded the “Dr. Emanuele Salzman Award” for service to the Telluride Mushroom Festival in 2024. In 2021 he was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology\,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.Join us after the 2026 AGM for the President’s Dinner by Chef Lindsay PorterTickets for AMS Non-Members\n\n\n\n\nTickets for AMS Members
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2026-annual-general-meeting-agm/
LOCATION:Devon Community Centre\, 20 Haven Avenue\, Devon\, Alberta\, T9G 2B9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting
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SUMMARY:2025 President's Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Join Karen Slevinsky\, President\, in an evening of fine dining\, excellent entertainment and good company on March 22\, 2025\, at the Santa Maria Goretti Centre\, at 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. \nDine on this lovely plated dinner by Patrick Chaudet\, Swiss French Chef; \n\nSemmelKnodel with Yellowfoot Mushroom\, Oyster Mushroom and Cremini Mushroom Ragout Garnish with Double smoked bacon and chives\nSpinach salads with Beech Mushroom and Shitake Champagne Vinaigrette\nRoasted Alberta pork tenderloin Stuffed with Dry Plum Black Chanterelle Sauce Smashed Baby Potato Roma Tomato\, Asparagus\, Cauliflower\nPorcini Cream Brulee\nReception Appetizer: Mushroom Crostini\n\nListen to a presentation by Kevin Kossowan: From the Wild \nKevin is an award-winning filmmaker and wild food guide. His primary film project\, From The Wild\, has been nominated for two James Beard Foundation Awards\, and is 12 seasons into a deep dive into the intersection of the wilderness and food/beverage. He also co-created Wild Harvest with Les Stroud and Paul Rogalski\, a foraging and cooking show nominated for 3 Canadian Screen Awards\, airing on PBS and National Geographic Asia.  In 2024 Kevin guided 50+ foraging walks\, a foraging and fishing sea kayak expedition in Clayoquot sound and toured the province teaching wild edible plants. He teaches day camps about wild mixology\, game butchery\, and field cookery. He’s also the resident forager for RGE RD. \nWebseries\, Foraging Workshops\, and Day Camps \nCelebrate the 2025 President’s Award Winner! \nCost: $75 per person
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2025-presidents-dinner/
LOCATION:Santa Maria Goretti Centre\, 11050-90 Street NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, T5H 1S5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,President's Dinner,Public and Member Event
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SUMMARY:2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
DESCRIPTION:Annual General Meeting 2025\nThis year the Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in person and virtually on March 22\, 2025 at the Santa Maria Goretti Centre in central Edmonton at no charge to participants. \nLocation is:\n11050-90 Street NW\nEdmonton\, Alberta\nT5H 1S5 \nThe Centre opens to the membership at 9:00 a.m. and the AGM starts at 9:30 a.m. The AGM will be held in accordance with the Society Bylaws and will include \n\nReports on the work of the Society in 2024\nThe 2024 Audited Financial Statements\nElections of board members – there are vacancies on the board. If you are interested in joining the board you may complete a nomination form here.\n\nGuests include:\n\nDanny Miller presenting: DNA: The Secret History of Mushrooms – What are the biggest surprises that recent studies in DNA have shown us about the (until now) secret history of mushrooms on the planet?\nWinner of the Alberta Mycological Society Graduate Award with the University of Alberta\n\nDanny Miller\n \nDanny Miller\n\n\n\nTalk: \nDNA: The Secret History of Mushrooms \nWhat are the biggest surprises that recent studies in DNA have shown us about the (until now) secret history of mushrooms on the planet? \nBIO: \nDanny first got interested in Mushrooms in 2007 after seeing strange colourful creatures in the forest all the time while hiking and skiing off trail\, and finally decided he had to find out what they were. The more he learned\, the more interesting they seemed\, and it just hasn’t stopped. \nDanny is the Education Chair for the Puget Sound Mycological Society\, helping to design and teach the curriculum for the club’s mycology classes. He is also the club Librarian\, and ID Committee co-ordinator and an emergency poisoning point person for King County Washington Poison Control. Danny also belongs to the PNW Key Council\, a group of amateur and professional mycologists and is a co-author of MycoMatch (formerly MatchMaker) with Ian Gibson\, the free PNW mushroom ID program for the PC. He has a big interest in taxonomy and figuring out where all of the mushrooms fit into the fungal tree of life\, and is currently trying to collect the DNA of every PNW species to determine which still need names. You can follow the results at www.alpental.com/psms/ddd \n\n\n\nAMS Merchandise will be available for sale \nRSVP below for AGM \nNote: \nLunch will not be provided and cannot be purchased on site. It is recommended that you bring a bag lunch. The lunch break may be as short as 30 minutes but not longer than 60 minutes. \n2025 Annual General Meeting Agenda2024 AGM Meeting Minutes2025 Audited Financial Balance SheetAMS Profit and Loss SheetAMS Logo Use PolicyAMS Dog PolicyProposed Bylaw Changes\n\nJoin us after the 2025 AGM for the President’s Dinner\n \n\n\nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Santa Maria Goretti Centre\, 11050-90 Street NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, T5H 1S5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,President's Dinner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T220000
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SUMMARY:2024 President's Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Join Karen Slevinsky\, President\, in fine dining and excellent speeches on March 24\, 2024. Dine on a mushroom-themed buffet\, Italian-style.  Listen to Melanie Jones\, Ph.D. speak on Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their many roles in forests – insights from 40 years of research. \nActivities at the President’s Dinner include: \n\nMushroom-Themed Royal Buffet at the Ital-Canadian Seniors Association Drop-In Centre\nA video presentation by Jeff Nash\, Communications Specialist\, GoA\nA speaking presentation by Melanie Jones\, Ph.D.  Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their many roles in forests – insights from 40 years of research \nMore AMS Merchandise available for sale\nPresentation of the President’s Award\nMaybe some surprises as well\nTickets are now on sale (see below).\n\nMelanie Jones is a Professor Emerita in the Biology Department at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. She has been studying ectomycorrhizal plants and fungi for more than 40 years. She is especially interested in the makeup and physiology of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities following natural and anthropogenic disturbances\, and in carbon and nutrients transfer between fungal and plant symbionts. She and her students have studied the effects of various silviculture practices on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities over short and medium terms; how severe wildfire affects soil fungi\, especially mycorrhizal fungi; transfer of nutrients and metals between ectomycorrhizal fungi and their plant symbionts; the contribution of ectomycorrhizal fungi to organic matter breakdown in soil; and whether the potential to associate with the same fungal individual affects seedling survival or carbon transfer between trees. Melanie was the first elected President of the International Mycorrhiza Society\, and served as Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences when UBC Okanagan was first formed. She retired last year\, but continues to be active in writing scientific papers with her students\, while also finding more time for cross-country skiing\, gardening and hiking.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2024-agm-presidents-dinner/
LOCATION:Ital-Canadian Seniors Association Drop-In Centre\, 9111-110 Ave NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, T5H 4J9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20240323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
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SUMMARY:2024 AGM
DESCRIPTION:This year the Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held in person and with ZOOM on March 23\, 2024 at the Ital-Canadian Seniors Association Drop-In Centre in central Edmonton.  \nAMS AGM Agenda 2024 \nNew this year is a combined in-person and Zoom meeting to be held at no charge.  The Centre opens to the membership at 1:00 p.m. and the AGM starts at 1:30 p.m. Refreshments will be provided.  The AGM will be held in accordance with the Society Bylaws and will include \n\nReports on the work of the Society in 2023\nThe 2023 Audited Financial Statements\nElections of board members – there are vacancies on the board. If you are interested in joining the board\, an email will be sent out in February with a nomination form or you can complete a  nomination form here.\nGuests include:\n\nToby Spribille\, Ph.D. Associate Professor\, University of Alberta\nEthan Zapach\, Winner of the NAMA/AMS Scholarship\nDilini Adihetty\, Winner of the Alberta Mycological Society Graduate Award with the University of Alberta\n\n\nAMS Merchandise will be available for sale\n\nRSVP below for AGM \n\nAGM Agenda 2023 AGM Minutes – to follow
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2024-agm-preliminary-information/
LOCATION:Ital-Canadian Seniors Association Drop-In Centre\, 9111-110 Ave NW\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, T5H 4J9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T210000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
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SUMMARY:2023 AGM President's Dinner
DESCRIPTION:We can accommodate vegetarian\, vegan\, gluten\, dairy\, and other restrictions. Please specify them when purchasing your ticket.  \nPresident’s Award\nJanet Melnychuk \nOur President’s Dinner is a wonderful\, educational evening social where you can meet and chat with mycologists\, amateur mycologists\, and other nature enthusiasts. During this event\, our President recognizes an AMS member\, excluding AMS board members\, for making outstanding contributions to the AMS\, progressing the goals of the AMS\, or simply being a source of support and information for our growing membership. \nYou’ll have another opportunity to purchase merchandise\, fungi books\, and remaining vintage fungi books from our storage if you missed the AGM. \nDuring this evening\, Andy MacKinnon\, co-author of Mushrooms of British Columbia\, will present: \nFabulous Plants and Their Fungal Friends\nPlants are fascinating. Fungi are fascinating. But for sheer entertainment value\, it’s difficult to beat plants\, plus fungi. Fungi have been associated with plants since plants first colonized the land\, and are requisite partners of almost all of our familiar Alberta plants. \nThe President’s Dinner is brought to you by Chef Patrick Chaudet from Edmonton’s Italian Santa Maria Goretti Centre. We are serving a four course dinner to our attendees this year\, featuring much sought after wild edible mushrooms. \nDinner Menu\n6:00 PM – Doors open. \n6:30 PM – Dinner is served. \nAppetizer – Black Chanterelle\, spinach and ricotta cheese deep-fried ravioli\nSalad – Roasted wild mushroom salad\, crispy cheese tulip on base frisée\nEntrée – Alberta pork medallions\, morel sauce\, Swiss rösti potato\, asparagus\, grape tomato\nDessert – Candy cap mushroom panna cotta\, Coffee and Tea\nPresident’s Award\nThe President’s Award was originally proposed by then President Peter Arabchuk when he presented awards to Bill Richards and Martin Osis for contributions to the Alberta Mycological Society\, likely sometime about 2006 or so.  Since then both Martin and Bill have also been awarded with Honorary Life Memberships. \nIn 2008 the Board redefined the President’s Award and proposed two criteria: \n\nThe award should go to a non-Board member for extraordinary contributions and effort on behalf of the Society\, and\nIt was purely the President’s prerogative to make the choice.\n\nThis year the AMS President’s Award goes to Janet Melnychuk.  Janet doesn’t really have an interest in mycology; but she is a highly capable bookkeeper.  I met Janet with Rosemarie in April 2018.  Rosemarie had stepped down as President but she was determined to get the AMS assistance with tracking our finances.  The AMS had no Treasurer and had no bookkeeper.  (and no President\, but that’s a different story.) At that personal meeting Janet volunteered to sort out our finances\, enter invoices into QuickBooks\, balance the cheque book monthly\, and prepare year-end financial statements.  Whew!  And she has done so\, ever since 2018.  With no compensation and with little to no recognition.  To recognize her now for all her work (that most would find mindboggling)\, I will be delivering a coffee table book:  Truffles:  Earth’s Black Diamonds\, and an honorarium to her in the near future. \nCongratulations Janet and thank you for your contributions to the AMS.  It is fitting that you are not present.  But you are here: if you check item 10 on our agenda today – you have kept us in the good books! \nOur AMS website is undergoing some maintenance\, and you may experience some lag or long wait times when registering.  \nIMPORTANT: After you submit your PayPal payment\, please wait for a Confirmation page to appear after the PayPal window closes. This will ensure your order is complete and that you receive a confirmation email and your ticket.\nDoors open at 6:00 PM and dinner is served at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2023-agm-presidents-dinner/
LOCATION:Shady Nook Hall\, 28348 Township Rd 380\, Red Deer County\, Alberta\, T4E 2G2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20230318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
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SUMMARY:2023 AGM\, Lunch & Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Loading the next set of gallery items...We can accommodate vegetarian\, vegan\, gluten\, dairy\, and other restrictions. Please specify them when purchasing your ticket.  \nOur Annual General Meeting (AGM) is back in person! This AGM gives our members a great opportunity to: \n\nMeet the AMS Board of Directors\, mycologists\, amateur mycologists\, biologists\, and other fungi enthusiasts.\nAttend a keynote presentation from Andy MacKinnon\, \, co-author of Mushrooms of British Columbia.\nHear about our great projects\, like our Fungarium and Fungal Database.\nCelebrate that mushrooms have finally made it to Canada’s Wild Species List! What’s next?\nListen to the highlights of our 2022 achievements.\nGet an early bird preview into our foray plans\, including the Great Alberta Mycological Foray.\nLearn about our society’s governance.\nProvide your own suggestions and ideas for the 2023 year.\nPurchase merchandise\, fungi books\, and vintage books that we’re purging from our storage.\n\nIf you’re interested in serving as a Director on the AMS board\, please contact Karen Slevinsky by email at kjslevinsky@hotmail.com. In the weeks prior to the AGM\, a nomination subcommittee will review all those interested in serving. \nSCHEDULE: \n8:45 AM – Doors open for a Meet and Greet with coffee\, tea\, juice\, and light pastries. \n9:30 AM – AGM begins. \n11:45 AM – AGM breaks for a soup & salad lunch. \n12: 30 PM – A Natural and Cultural History of Magic Mushrooms in British Columbia \nMagic mushrooms have been employed in spiritual practices in Mexico and Central America for millennia. The visionary powers of these mushrooms first became known to the world in 1957 and in the early 1960s\, they sparked a social and cultural “psychedelic revolution” soon dominated by lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The discovery that magic mushrooms grew commonly and abundantly in the Pacific Northwest and in British Columbia (BC) helped make Canada’s westernmost province a focal point of social change. Recent advances show promise for carefully monitored treatment of some psychological disorders\, see for example Canadian Nurse July 2020 Magic mushrooms and the future of mental health care. \n\nThis presentation will explore the natural history of BC’s magic mushrooms and their role in the rapidly changing counter culture of the 1960s\, 1970s\, 1980s\, and up to the present day. \n\n3:00 PM – AGM wraps up. \nOur AMS website is undergoing some maintenance\, and you may experience some lag or long wait times when registering.  \nIMPORTANT: After you submit your PayPal payment\, please wait for a Confirmation page to appear after the PayPal window closes. This will ensure your order is complete and that you receive a confirmation email and your ticket.\n2023 AGM Agenda2022 AGM Minutes
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2023-agm-luncheon-and-presentation/
LOCATION:Shady Nook Hall\, 28348 Township Rd 380\, Red Deer County\, Alberta\, T4E 2G2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20220319T130000
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SUMMARY:2022 AMS Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Annual General Meeting via ZOOM\nDear Members of the Alberta Mycological Society\,\nThe AMS welcomes its members to attend the virtual 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM). This year\, we’re excited and honoured to have Alan Rockefeller as our guest speaker. He’ll be presenting: \nBeing an Amateur Mycologist \nUsing the tools and resources available to develop your skills as an amateur mycologist and how this can contribute to the advancement of mycology. \nAlan Rockefeller is a citizen mycologist based in Oakland\, California. Rockefeller started studying mushrooms in 2001 and has since traveled around the world to find and classify them. He studies and teaches microscopy and fungal analysis techniques at Counter Culture Labs\, an open-science\, community laboratory in Oakland. He analyzes his regional mushroom collections at the lab using DNA extraction and polymerase chain reaction. \nRockefeller discovered and named Psilocybe allenii\, a psychoactive mushroom (magic mushroom) from the West Coast of the United States. He co-authored a 2020 publication characterizing five Psilocybe species. Mycological and psychedelic organizations around the country have invited Rockefeller to present his research. He is esteemed in online communities including the Shroomery\, Mushroom Observer\, and iNaturalist\, where he helps to identify fungi. (Edited from Psychedelic Science). \nHere are some important things to note: \n\n\nRegistration opens Monday\, February 28.\nA day or so prior to the meeting\, an email with the Zoom link will be circulated to all registrants.\nYou can view this AGM agenda and last year’s AGM minutes:\n\n\nAgenda\nMinutes of the 2021AGM\n\n\n\nIf your membership is expiring prior to the AGM\, please renew your membership before March 19\, 2021.\n\nThe AMS is a non-profit organization committed to learning about mycology in Alberta and providing knowledge and great mushroom foray experiences to the public. The AMS Graduate Award was created to inspire university students to pursue fungal research to foster an appreciation for fungi and their role in our ecosystem. We encourage all AMS members to donate by clicking here or the picture of Alberta’s Leccinum boreale mushroom below to donate. No donation is too small\, and a tax receipt will be issued. \n \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2022-ams-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20210320T130000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20210228T094759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T094759Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Virtual AMS Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We welcome members to join us at our 2021 AGM. This event will be virtual via ZOOM. \nNotice of the Virtual Annual General Meeting via ZOOM\nDear Members of the Alberta Mycological Society\,\nThe AMS welcomes its members to attend the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM schedule is back on track to set the agenda for the  year. With the vaccines rolling out to Alberta’s population now over the next few months\, the AMS is optimistic. \nThe documents necessary for this meeting are: \n\nAgenda\nMinutes of the 2020 AGM (October)\nAMS Bylaws Proposed Amendments\nAMS 2020 Financial Statements\n\nThis meeting will take place via ZOOM and you must register to attend.\n\nDATE: Saturday\, March 20\, 2021\n\nTIME: 10AM – 1PM \n\nUpon registration\, we will send you the ZOOM link and password a day or two before the event.\nPlease register soon as it is necessary for us to reach quorum.\nIf your membership is expiring prior to the AGM please renew your membership before March 20\, 2021.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2021-virtual-ams-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200321T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200321T220000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20200229T013855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T165616Z
UID:4457-1584811800-1584828000@www.albertamushrooms.ca
SUMMARY:CANCELLED: 2020 AMS President's Dinner
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED \nParking\n\nn/a \n\n					\n					Please purchase tickets by March 18\, 2020.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2020-ams-presidents-dinner/
LOCATION:Shady Nook Hall\, 28348 Township Rd 380\, Red Deer County\, Alberta\, T4E 2G2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200321T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20200321T140000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20191122T200952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T165252Z
UID:4076-1584781200-1584799200@www.albertamushrooms.ca
SUMMARY:CANCELLED - 2020 AMS Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/annual-general-meeting-tentative/
LOCATION:Shady Nook Hall\, 28348 Township Rd 380\, Red Deer County\, Alberta\, T4E 2G2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting,Members-Only Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T210000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20190219T210732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T022818Z
UID:2122-1553364000-1553374800@www.albertamushrooms.ca
SUMMARY:President's Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet dinner prepared by the University of Alberta Faculty Club in the Saskatchewan Room and hear a talk by Dr. Richard Summerbell on “A Fungus that Thrives on Whiskey\, Rum and Cognac in the Air”. \nBuffet includes the following: \n\nWild Mushroom Chicken (GF)\nPorcini Mushroom Pasta (Vegetarian)\nThe Cream of Mushroom Soup (Vegetarian)\nVarious sides\, including rice\, potatoes & salads\nAssorted desserts\n\nEntirely GF Menu includes: \n\nGarden Salad with Balsamic Dressing on The Side\nGluten Free Tuscan Penne with Herbed Tomato Sauce & Wild Mushrooms\nFresh Fruit Plate for dessert\n\n\nParking\nMembers are respectfully reminded that their parking decal is only valid in V-lot between 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Overflow parking is available in the Windsor Car Park\, members and guests must purchase parking tickets. For more information regarding rates please visit: https://www.albertamushrooms.ca//asinfo.ualberta.ca/en/ParkingServices/Visitor-Parking.aspx\n​\nWith the goal of keeping parking spaces free for our lunchtime members and guests\, any vehicles parked in the V-Lot outside of these hours without a valid dispenser ticket will be ticketed by Parking Services.\n\n					\n					Whiskey\, Rum\, and Cognac-loving Fungi In the early 2000’s\, James Scott was called in by the Hiram Walker Distillery to investigate what the apparent fungal problem was that was causing all the houses and other structures in a 500m to 1 km radius around the whiskey storage warehouses to turn black. At first\, he thought the dark fungus involved might be an unknown organism\, but then he discovered it had been known from Cognac\, France\, in the 1880s\, and then essentially forgotten. Later investigations\,  sometimes propelled by semi-secretive mass homeowner lawsuits in the USA and the UK\, showed that the ‘whiskey fungus’ was to be found worldwide – but only where some artificial process was releasing tons of ethanol into the air. It had\, and has\, no known natural habitat – which is impossible\, but so it stands at the moment. A new genus\, Baudoinia\, was described\, named after the early researcher who described it in Cognac. Dr. Summerbell was sent to Cognac to collect a new specimen to represent the ‘type’ of the name. Some snaffling of blackened\, dead bush twigs around a cognac warehouse hit paydirt. More recent investigations have found him sampling the stone on the Kentucky state capitol and scraping black fungus off over 100 baking-hot corrugated tin roofs near the Captain Morgan rum warehouse in St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands\, taking a two-day break for Hurricane Irma to pass through. Somehow alcohol never fails to be linked to drama\, even when fungi are involved. \nPlease purchase tickets by March 19\, 2019
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/presidents-dinner/
LOCATION:University of Alberta Faculty Club\, 1435 Saskatchewan Dr NW\, Edmonton\, AB\, T6G 2G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T123000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20181206T050620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T022905Z
UID:1941-1553340600-1553344200@www.albertamushrooms.ca
SUMMARY:2019 Annual General Meeting - Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet soup and salad selection prepared by the University of Alberta Faculty Club! \nSelection includes: \n\nFresh Buns\nCream of Mushroom Soup (GF\, Vegetarian)\nChicken Rice Soup (Gluten Free\, Dairy Free)\nColeslaw (Contains gluten)\nMixed Greens Salad (Gluten Free\, Dairy Free)\nCaesar Salad\n\nLocation: Saskatchewan Room \nParking\n\nMembers are respectfully reminded that their parking decal is only valid in V-lot between 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Overflow parking is available in the Windsor Car Park\, members and guests must purchase parking tickets. For more information regarding rates please visit: https://www.albertamushrooms.ca//asinfo.ualberta.ca/en/ParkingServices/Visitor-Parking.aspx\n​\nWith the goal of keeping parking spaces free for our lunchtime members and guests\, any vehicles parked in the V-Lot outside of these hours without a valid dispenser ticket will be ticketed by Parking Services.\n\nWe welcome Dr. Richard Summerbell\, Canadian mycologist from the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health as he presents on the following: \nWhy Do Humans Have So Many Fungal Skin Rashes and Why Are the Fungi Involved so Darn Pretty in Culture? \nMany people in biology have an eye for things that are beautiful\, and\, in the medical laboratory\, this tends to lead people to want to work at the Mycology bench. The apparently yucky dermatophyte fungi that cause athlete’s foot\, ringworm\, and much of what we call ‘jock itch’ grow out as stunningly attractive red\, yellow and cream-coloured colonies with dramatic spores\, intriguing spiral barbs and eccentric sex lives. Working with them is so addictive that it’s all managers can do to get techs to go back to the bacteriology bench. These (the fungi\, not the workers) are mysterious organisms. Most animal species\, or even whole family-level groups like ‘the cat family’ (Felidae)\, have at most one dermatophyte species that regularly colonizes them. Humans\, meanwhile\, have at least nine ringworm fungi specifically adapted to grow on us! What made our species the Galapagos Islands of the ringworms? Investigation showed that our habit of domesticating different animals – either deliberately\, like the horse\, or accidentally\, like the rat – caused us to collect new ringworms that adapted to us by genetically host-jumping. In addition to scratching our heads\, they do give us a lot to think about. Such as “why are they so brightly coloured in culture when they are never colourful in their normal growth on skin?” \nPlease purchase tickets by March 19\, 2019.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2019-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:University of Alberta Faculty Club\, 1435 Saskatchewan Dr NW\, Edmonton\, AB\, T6G 2G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20190323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260611T164348
CREATED:20190219T220003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T150324Z
UID:2132-1553333400-1553353200@www.albertamushrooms.ca
SUMMARY:2019 AMS Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We welcome members to join us at our 2019 AGM. This event will be held at the University of Alberta Faculty Club in the Saskatchewan Room. \n					\n					Parking\n\nMembers are respectfully reminded that their parking decal is only valid in V-lot between 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and after 4:30 p.m. Overflow parking is available in the Windsor Car Park\, members and guests must purchase parking tickets. For more information regarding rates please visit: https://www.albertamushrooms.ca//asinfo.ualberta.ca/en/ParkingServices/Visitor-Parking.aspx\n​\nWith the goal of keeping parking spaces free for our lunchtime members and guests\, any vehicles parked in the V-Lot outside of these hours without a valid dispenser ticket will be ticketed by Parking Services.\n\nPlease RSVP by March 19\, 2019. Note that this DOES NOT include Lunch\, however if you are interested\, lunch tickets and more information can be found here.
URL:https://www.albertamushrooms.ca/event/2019-ams-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:University of Alberta Faculty Club\, 1435 Saskatchewan Dr NW\, Edmonton\, AB\, T6G 2G9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Annual General Meeting
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