The Hyatt Regency Hotel is located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis on the Nicollet Mall, a scenic one-mile pedestrian thoroughfare containing more shopping in a 4 block radius than any other city in the country. Minutes away from the Hyatt Regency are the Metrodome, Target Center, Walker Art Center, and the State, Orpheum, and Guthrie theaters.

Room rates are $135.00 for single/double occupancy and are available from May 13-22, 2000. The deadline for making reservations is April 15, 2000. The Hyatt Regency also boasts an on-site fully equipped health club and spa, including indoor full-sized racquetball and tennis courts, pool, whirlpool, sauna, and aerobics classes (all for an additional charge).

Spring in Minnesota can be chilly (average daily high temperatures in May are 69F/27C) so bring clothes to layer and hope you won't need them!

Minneapolis/St. Paul has been named the best large city in the Midwest (Money Magazine-1998), the 3rd best place in America to live (Money Magazine), and Minneapolis is considered one of the safest cities in the nation(Gallup Poll).

The Twin Cities has:
• More theater seats per capita than any other US City outside of New York
• 35 museums, including the largest urban sculpture garden
• 22 lakes and 170 parks within the city limits
• 13 colleges and universities
• 4 professional sports teams
• World famous climate-controlled skyway system of glass-enclosed elevated walkways
• Largest casino between Las Vegas and Atlantic City
• The Minnesota Zoo - 485 acres ranked on of the top 20 in the nation
• The Mall of America - minutes away from downtown is the country's largest enclosed shopping and entertainment complex with 520 retail stores, 50 restaurants, 14 movie theaters, 7 night clubs, Camp Snoopy - a 7 acre enclosed theme park, Underwater World - a 1.2 million gallon walk through aquarium, and the Lego Imagination Center
• An International Airport 20 minutes from Downtown with 2000 flights arriving daily.

Log on to www.minneapolis.org or www.stpaulcvb.org for airport information, phone numbers, things to do, event calendar, tourism information, business directories, maps of the Twin Cities and skyways and more.

You can also log on to this website, www.napsw.org, where we will continue to post information on this conference.

Please feel free to contact either of the conference co-chairs with questions: