Fall 2024
From the President
Rick Throop MSTA President
With fall upon us I hope everyone has had a productive and profitable summer. Looking up and seeing the leaves changing in the cooler temperatures, reminds us that we will be having winter really soon which generally leads to a little bit slower time of the year for all of us. Between the heavy workload and coaching Football, I found myself with little time to relax, so some downtime in the winter might be nice.
MSTA recently had our fall meeting at National Vacuum Equipment. There were about 55 members in attendance. I would like to thank Bill Lievense, our MSTA lobbyist in Lansing, for attending the meeting and giving us all an update as to the goings on in our capital. Bill was able to discuss and answer questions on the current sanitary code bill that is being worked on and how that is progressing through the legislative process. I would like to send a special thank you to Winson Nim who runs National Vacuum Equipment in Traverse City and Jordan Fekete-Ritter for arranging lunch. As usual, they provided us with an amazing lunch and the beautiful facility to enjoy. Mike Chouinard who is also from National Vacuum Equipment put on a nice presentation as well. I would also like to thank Nick Holtschlag, Rich Garbacik and Matt from Meters Inc. for doing their presentation as well. Meters Inc. has some very interesting products and will be having a booth at our Annual Conference in February.
Speaking of the MSTA Annual Conference, there is some exciting things going on this year. The dates of our conference are Tuesday, February 11 through Thursday, February 13 at Soaring Eagle Resort in Mt. Pleasant. On Monday, February 10 NAWT will be putting on two different classes. One will be a Vacuum Truck training course and the other will be an Inspector Training course. You can sign up to take these courses by going to the MSTA website at www.msta.biz. I look forward to seeing everybody at our upcoming conference and hope this fall and winter and the holiday season find you well, and you can enjoy some time with family and friends. Thank You, Rick Throop MSTA President