President's Memo 01/05/12

Happy New Year, everyone!  2012 is going to be a great year for the Illinois Chapter of ACI.  We have some great speakers for dinner meetings lined up in the coming months and our long-time Treasurer, Susanne Flood, will be receiving the Chapter Activities Award at the ACI Convention in Dallas, TX in March.  Congratulations Sue!  I can think of no one more deserving!

President's Memo 11/07/11

It is hard to believe that it is already November; the first 5 months of my term as Chapter president have flown by.  It has certainly been eventful. As you are probably aware, our October dinner meeting was cancelled due to a fire in the kitchen at the Erie Café, where we regularly hold our meetings.  It was a fire that was contained in the kitchen of the restaurant and nobody was hurt.  However, the restaurant was closed for approximately 1 week to repair the damage.  The fire occurred two days before our meeting was to be held, and we were not able to schedule an alternative site on such short notice.  I also apologize to Mike Morrison, ACI International, for cancelling the dinner meeting at which he was scheduled to be speaking.  We will try to re-schedule Mike’s presentation regarding the ACI/CRSI Adhesive Anchor Installer Certification at a later date.  I have been told that the repairs have been completed at the Erie Café, which means that our meeting scheduled for November 15 will go on as planned.

President’s Memo – 8/16/11

I am very excited to be the president of the Illinois Chapter for 2011-2012.   It is going to be a great year for the chapter.  We have some exciting dinner meeting presentations scheduled, starting with Stephen Thorn on September 20.  Stephen is an environmental attorney and will be discussing EPA regulations and how they affect the concrete industry.  It should be very entertaining and informative for people in all aspects of the industry.  Then, on October 25, Mike Morrison, Manager of Certification Program Development for ACI International, will give us a presentation regarding the ACI/CRSI adhesive anchor installer certification program.  This is a new certification that ACI is rolling out and our chapter is on the leading edge, offering certification classes in September and November of this year.