Spring 2022
From the President As winter begins to leave us here in Michigan and spring slowly approaches, we all look forward to another busy summer season. I hope this winter has found you healthy and well and as busy as you can be in the slower months. As I’m sure many of you were aware MSTA put on its first solo wastewater conference this year. There was a little over Rick Throop 200 attendees which includes MSTA President 21 vendors in 13 booths, 168 attendees, 20 of which were non-members, and many speakers and special guests. The new venue, Soaring Eagle Casino, provided wonderful food, a very nice hotel facility, and plenty of activities after the conference was over for people staying to do. Jason and Karlyn did an amazing job in a very short period of time setting up a conference with 10.5 credits available to haulers. MSTA is already planning another conference next year at the same facility however those dates have yet to be decided. I hope all that attend had a wonderful time and were able to fill out your survey in your email to give us any ideas how to improve things for next year.
and Woods-Utica Septic Service were greatly appreciated. If someone wishes to donate to 1 or both scholarships, contact Karlyn Wickham at exectiveofficer@msta.biz. There is currently a committee putting together ideas of what type of careers the scholarship recipients will need to be going into to be able to award the money. With input from the Scott family and the Snyder family, I am sure it will go to support future careers these two individuals would like to see thrive. That being said, I would like to offer a heartfelt thank you to both families for attending our banquet and I hope that they were able to see just how important these two men were not only as business owners in our industry but as friends and peers to not only myself but many other younger members. Personally, both Mark and Dave were my go-to for any questions I ever had as I’m sure they were for many other people. They will both be sincerely missed. MSTA does have a spring meeting coming up on April 23, which will be held in Cassopolis, Michigan at Dervin Witmer’s facility. We have 5.5 credits approved for that meeting. I think we will have some pretty exciting and new topics to talk about. A big thank you to Dervin for volunteering this place. And our fall meeting is scheduled for October 8 and is currently scheduled to be held in National Vacuum Equipment. A big thank you to them for volunteering to do that for us once again.
Lastly, I again want to thank Jason, Karlyn, and everyone else On Tuesday evening, MSTA had its annual member banquet. We who was a part of making our conference go well. I hope all of were able to announce our intentions to give out scholarships you have a profitable summer and I look forward to seeing some in honor of Mark Scott and Dave Snyder with many members of you at our spring meeting. stepping up and pledging money to that fund. Scholarship Thank You, pledges from Williams and Bay Pumping, Halls Serv-All, Rick Throop Spartan Sewer, Brendel’s Septic Tank Service, Mick Natzel, MSTA President All American Septic Service, Sloan’s Septic Tank Service
Thank you MSTA Conference Vendors! Ashland Pump • Burke Agency General Agency Company • Golden Circle Advisors Imperial Industries • Infiltrator Water Technologies Milan Supply / Valley Farms Supply • National Vacuum Equipment Odor One Composting Solutions • PolyJohn • Satellite Industries Southeastern Equipment Company • Watercore