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WORLD FENCE NEWS • MARCH 2015 • 69 Above, Steve Hoopman, right, accepts the AFA Ambassador Award. Below, Pete Roth, right, was also recipient of the Ambassador Award. Above, Jamie Turrentine, right, ac- cepts the Contractor of the Year plaque on behalf of his company, Southwest Fence and Deck, Inc. Andreas McConnie, right, president of McConnie Fence of Tampa, Fla., re- ceives the award for Fence Project of the Year. The project will be detailed in an upcoming edition of WFN. Chapter Breakfast keynote speaker Ross Bernstein, motivational speaker and author of over 50 sports books, got the crowd revved up. FENCETECH 2015 was held Feb. 3-6, 2015 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. FENCETECH 2016 is scheduled for Jan. 12-15, 2016 at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee Inducted into the AFA Hall of Fame were Paul Bulten, left, formerly of Ameristar Fence Products, and AFA past president Bob Burton, owner of Poly Vinyl Creations, Inc.