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JANUARY 2010
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 20, ISSUE 1
Things are starting to come together for the annual convention. The hotel has been reserved so you can start to make your room reservations.
Here is some preliminary information:
Date – March 4 & 5, 2010
Place – Wedgewood Resort at 212 Wedgewood Drive in Fairbanks, Alaska
Time – We will have a continental breakfast each morning starting at 8:00 am. For Thursday, this will give anyone that wants to fly up from Anchorage early Thursday morning time to get there before the activities start. The hotel offers free 24/7 shuttle from the airport to the hotel.
A copy of the membership application and convention registration is attached. Please fill this out and get it back to me at your earliest convenience so we can let the hotel know how many to expect for meals. As in the past you can pay at the convention or mail in a check. We still don’t take credit cards.
Bill Corey from Pentair Water will be presenting another class on Wednesday the 3rd in addition to the regular convention. The topic is to be VFD, Tanks, and Sizing. There is a $20.00 fee like last year to help offset the cost of the hotel. There are no meals provided so you will be on your own that day but there appears to be several restaurants close by.
Thursday night we are doing a Night at the Museum. The Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum is a part of the Wedgewood Resort and we have set up a cocktail party for Thursday night to tour the museum. It has “over 60 historically significant automobiles manufactured in the U.S. prior to World War II” restored and on display. There is also a vintage fashion collection if you aren’t interested in cars. It sounds like a good time. If you want to check out their website go to www.fountainheadhotels.com and click on Wedgewood Resort.
We are still working on securing speakers and hope to get a Lien Class together this year since we couldn’t get anyone to do it last year. If anyone has any suggestions on who to contact in the Fairbanks area for that topic or anything else, please let me know.
Every year we talk about getting pictures together to display at our conventions. I have been able to collect some but this year I would like to make a special request from everyone to bring one picture from your collection that you are willing to part with and give me. I want to start a scrapbook with information about each member, past and present, and at least one picture to go along with it would be great. Of course that means I will also be gathering information about each of you and your business as to how and when it got started, transformation through the years, etc. Hopefully this will be the start of getting the history of the association and water well industry in Alaska documented.
I recently sent out a notice that since we aren’t doing the convention in Anchorage, the Municipality of Anchorage On-Site Services will not be able to give their yearly update class through the association this year. If you need to get that update to renew your license for well driller or pump installer they will be giving their own seminar on February 12th, ten to noon, in their training room at 4700 Elmore Road. Please call ahead of time to sign up with Deb at 343-7904.
If you have any concerns, ideas, or suggestions for the association or the convention please call one of the following board members:
President Rocky MacDonald 907-456-6712
Vice President Larry Swihart 907-746-0225
Secretary Jeanette Tuttle 907-776-8443
Treasurer Lisa Humphreys 907-376-7987
Contractor Director Cole Sullivan 907-688-2759
Manufacturer Director Steve Erickson 907-563-3424
Technical Director Jim Munter 907-345-0165
Past President Ron Pichler 907-562-2312
Executive Secretary Karen Henderson 907-562-2312
Or fax to 907-562-5971 or email to denali@ak.net
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