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National Report: |
Robert
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November 18, 2007 Great News! We won one of the Outstanding Chapter awards for 2005 / 2006 and this adds another patch for our banner. We will be the host chapter for the Spring 2007 Convention in Atlanta on April 18-21, 2007. We are planning on a chapter night on Friday night at Maggiano's Little Italy with the Restoration Brothers Blues Band playing, a golf tournament at Stone Mountain Lakemont Course on Wednesday, as well as spouses programs for the attendees. The ICRI Spring Convention will be preceding the Spring ACI Convention here in Atlanta. The fall convention in Denver set new records for attendance with 280 participants. We now have 1,785 members, 23 Supporting Members and 33 Chapters. National is expecting our Atlanta spring Convention to surpass the Denver Convention so we need to get busy and prepare for it. Let's show them our Southern spirit and hospitality. Convention News: The 2007 Who's Who in Concrete is at the printers and should be out soon. Future issues may be on the internet instead of the book. The new National student rate will be set at $10.00 plus the local rate as set by the chapters. The new Retire Professional National rate will be $75.00 plus local chapter dues if you have been a member for 5 years. The World of Concrete Annual Meeting in Las Vegas will be at the ICRI Zone at ESPN Zone at the New York New York Hotel and Casino on Monday, January 22, 2007, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Please register on the ICRI World of Concrete Forms as we get money for these registrations. This is a new form for our Annual Meeting. Have FUN! The Awards Committee and I hope that you can send in projects from the southeast for judging this year. Watch your mail for the Awards Program announcement. You can get the awards forms by downloading the forms on ICRI's national website or by contacting Kelly Page at 847-827-0830. The awards submissions are due by May 1, 2007. We also have a local awards program similar to Nationals so send these submittals in to us also Your Georgia Chapter Board of Directors has met and is planning an active and interesting series of programs for the coming year. Please support your chapter as we are trying for the Chapter of the Year Award and need your support. We need more members so bring a friend and sign him up to be an active member. Bob Terpening,
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