ACES Midwest

You still may be able to get a discounted room in the hotel attached to the site of the Midwest workshop on Saturday, the Davenport Radisson. You can get a room for $89 instead of the normal $150 or so. But you have to call quickly, because if the hotel can sell the rooms at the bigger rate for other people, they will.

Again, the workshop will be held at the River Center in Davenport, Iowa, which is attached to the Davenport Radisson (www.radisson.com/davenportia). Tell the hotel you're with the American Copy Editors Society conference to get the special room rate.

I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the workshop, but you'll see other ACES stalwarts there. Speakers include Chris Wienandt, business copy desk chief at the Dallas Morning News and president of ACES; Ron Smith, features copy desk chief of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Teresa Schmedding, senior news editor of the Daily Herald and ACES board member; Chris Courtney, design director for Red Eye in Chicago; and Brittany Volk of the Daily Iowan. Session content will range from headlines and critical editing to design and sentence diagramming.

Remember you can sign up at the door for the workshop, $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. Swing on by!

Note first a venue change: The workshop will not be at the Q-C Times but at the River Center in downtown Davenport, Iowa -- very close to the Q-C Times, and connected to the Radisson. Here's the Google map.

Also, we have confirmed these additional speakers:

* Chris Courtney, design director for Red Eye, Chicago.
* Brittany Volk, Daily Iowan

I'm sorry I haven't posted a registration form yet; I'm experiencing server problems. If you would like it immediately, please e-mail me at nholdway@comcast.net and I'll e-mail the form back. There also will be on-site registration, but if you can, please e-mail me to tell us you're coming.

We will have coffee and doughnuts in the morning, but lunch will be on your own. We will be in a downtown area with cheap eats nearby. Sessions will begin at 9 a.m.; we'll take late registrations at 8:30 a.m.

Come on down!

The ACES Midwest Chapter's 2006 workshop is on for Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa.

Among the featured presenters will be ACES President Chris Wienandt, ACES Executive Committee members Gerri Berendzen (Quincy Herald-Whig of Illinois) and Teresa Schmedding (Daily Herald of suburban Chicago), and Ron Smith of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The cost will be $25 for ACES members and students, $35 for nonmembers. (Or become a member of ACES to qualify for the lower rate: )

I'll have a registration form posted for downloading this week.

Meanwhile, click here for the location of the Quad-City Times.

The 2006 ACES Midwest workshop is scheduled for Nov. 11 at the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa. Stay tuned for details.