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• 2025 VCA Annual Meeting Exhibit/Sponsor Registration

  • Start
    06/12/2025
  • End
    06/14/2025
  • Location
    The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

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• 2025 VCA Annual Meeting

  • Start
    06/12/2025
  • End
    06/14/2025
  • Location
    The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

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  VIRGINIA CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

  “Cemeteries Reimagined: Cultivating a Welcoming Atmosphere to Shatter Stigmas and Inspire Celebrations”

  The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

  June 12-14, 2025

  *Hotel Group Rate of only $149 plus taxes and fees per night.

  DON'T WAIT! ROOM BLOCK CLOSES MAY 14th at 4:00pm or until sold out.
   RESERVE HERE. 

  EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN THROUGH MAY 15
  

  Annual Meeting Schedule

  Thursday	June 12, 2025
  3:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Registration and Vendor Set up
  6:00 pm -8:00 pm	President’s Reception
  Friday	June 13, 2025
  8:00 am – 8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
  8:00am – 2:00 pm	Exhibits in Exhibit Hall
  8:30 am – 8:45 am	Welcome Tony Peterson, VCA President
  8:45 am – 9:15 am	VCA Annual Membership Meeting
  9:15 am – 10:15 am	Amber Caron, Director of Communications, Wreaths Across America
  10:15 am – 10:45am	Break with Suppliers
  10:45 am – 11:30 am	John Bolton, “My Cemetery: Simple Burial Ground or Multi-faceted Community Asset?”
  11:30 am – 12:15 pm	Shaun Spencer-Hester, Executive Director and Curator, The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum
  12:15 pm-1:00 pm	Lunch Buffet
  1:00 pm – 1:45 pm	Jamie Pettinato, Technical Sales, STIHL
  1:45 pm- 2:00 pm	John Bolton, ICCFA Report
  2:00 pm – 2:15 pm	Wally Frankland, Veteran’s Update
  3:00pm- TBD	Hold for Presbyterian Cemetery Field Trip
  Saturday	June 14, 2025
  8:00 am – 8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
  8:00 am-2:00 pm	Exhibits in Exhibit Hall
  8:30 am -8:35 pm	Welcome Daun Frankland, 2nd Vice President, VCA
  8:35 am-12:35pm	Mike Doherty, Cemetery Training for the Compliance Agent
  9:00 am – 9:45 am	Jay Brooks, "From Solemn to Celebratory: The Cemetery as a Space for the Living"
  9:45 am -10:15 am	Break with Exhibitors
  10:15 am - 11:00 am	Dr. Rev Joe Cobb, Mayor of Roanoke “Honoring Their Breaths: When the Bones of our Ancestors Breathe Forth Reparation and Justice”
  11:00 am – 11:10 am	Quick Break
  11:10 am -11:20 am	Legislative Report; Jimmy Stuart
  11:20 am – 11:30 am	VFDA Report; VFDA President-Elect, Gregg Faulkner
  11:30 am -11:40 am	SCCFA Report; SCCFA President Jodie Dupree
  11:40 am-12:00 pm	DPOR Update; Anika Coleman, Board Member
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch Buffet
  1:00 pm – 1:45 pm	Alan Creedy, “How to Win Back Lost Customers”
  2:00 pm	Family Time “Enjoy the Day”
  5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Reception
  6:00 pm – 8:30 pm	President Awards Reception and Banquet Keynote Address: Mary Pope Maybank Hutson President, Sweet Briar College  Officer/Board Installations: Jodie Dupree, SCCFA

  REGISTER TODAY FOR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTED RATE!

  

  Please join us in thanking our Conference supporters! 

  Reception Sponsors:

  Trinity Memorial Gardens

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  Compliance Training Sponsor:

  
  

  Columbia Gardens Cemetery

  
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  Terms and Conditions

  By registering for this Virginia Cemetery Association event or program you consent to being photographed, filmed and/or otherwise recorded at the event or program. By doing so, you grant to the Association rights to the release, publication or reproduction of any recorded media taken at the event or program of your appearance, voice or name for use by the Association and its management team.             

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• Cemetery Training for The Compliance Agent

  • When
    06/14/2025
  •  
    8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    The Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, VA

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   A Regulation Training Class for the Cemetery Compliance Agent will be taught live by attorney Mike Doherty on Saturday, June 14, 2025 as part of the 2025 VCA Annual Meeting.  The program will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 12:30 p.m.  Lunch will be provided.  

  Please note the following important details for the day:

  Location: The Virginian Hotel, 712 Church Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

  The program is part of the VCA Annual Meeting. Registration to that meeting is not required to attend compliance training. If you would like to attend the Annual Meeting in its entirety, you will need to register separately.  

  Please join us in thanking our compliance training sponsor: Columbia Gardens Cemetery!

  This training program is approved by the Cemetery Board, and fulfills the requirements as established by the Department of Professional & Occupational Regulations (DPOR) for Compliance Agents or Designees.

  Registration Fees

  $225 member / $475 non-member

  Cancellations

  Attendee cancellations and requests for refunds may be requested up to three (3) days before the event starts and must be made in writing via email. 

  Refund Policy

  All cancellations must be received in writing in order to be eligible for a refund. An administrative charge of $50 will be applied to all refunds if the cancellation or request to change to another course is received less than three days before the start of the event. Cancellations not received in writing by the date required will not be eligible for a refund.

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