Summer 2022
From the President With summer in full swing, I’m sure all of you are just like me, extremely busy and wondering where the first half of this year has gone. With the Fourth of July around the corner hopefully you will enjoy some downtime with family and friends to rejuvenate yourself for the rest of the summer and fall. MSTA did have our spring meeting on April 23 in Cassopolis, Michigan. I would like to thank Dervin Whitmer and his entire family for welcoming us to their amazing facility and providing us with an incredible lunch. His entire family was there helping with set up, cleaning, and taking things down. We were lucky enough to have some wonderful presenters to speak on topics about excavation and employee safety and an informative presentation about the proper way to tow a truck, even though it is something none of us want to think about. Rick Throop MSTA President
As we move through summer and look to fall, we start planning for our fall meeting. This year the fall meeting will be returning to National Vacuum Equipment headquarters in Traverse City. We are still currently planning this meeting; however, we do intend to offer credits for attendees. A little change to this meeting will be that we are doing our gun raffle at this time as well. Since we are doing our annual conference at a casino, we are limited with what we can do on the site, so we were forced to make this change. Tickets are available at the same cost as usual $10 a piece or three for $25. National Vacuum
Equipment always provides a great lunch and a wonderful facility for us to have our meeting. Hopefully we will see many of you there. Speaking of our upcoming conference, MSTA will again be having that at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Count Pleasant. The dates for this conference are February 14 & 15, 2023. There will again be credits offered and vendors present. There’s been a lot of interest from new vendors as well, so I’m sure the number of vendors will increase. Also, as usual, we are always looking for ideas for topics our members want to hear about. If there is something specific, please contact Karlyn and hive her this information. This conference is for members and our goal is to make it beneficial for everybody. Lastly, I hope the remainder of the summer and work season goes well for all of you. I look forward to seeing many of you at our fall meeting in Traverse City. Let’s hope by then we will be looking at lower fuel prices. Thank You, Rick Throop MSTA President