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Mason Contractors; Vice President and Director, Steve Dudek, Navetta Mason Contractors; and Treasurer and Director, Kevin Ryan, Masonry Developers Inc. Standing from left to right are: Director, Dan Tollis, Barro Contracting Inc.; Director, Chuck Costella, Monte Costella & Company; Director, Ed Davenport, Davenport Masonry; and Director, Tony Giannola, Giannola Masonry. Not pictured is Tom Nowak, RC Nowak & Company.
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The Michigan Mason Contractors' Association (MMCA) is expecting a large turnout in Chicago for the Masonry Showcase at Construct America. Several members will arrive from various locations throughout Michigan via train.
Plans currently include a reception on Thursday evening, April 21, 2005, at the host hotel, the Fairmont Chicago. A general membership meeting is planned for Friday morning. Other activities are in the planning stages.
MMCA's annual spring meeting and golf outing is being planned for Tuesday, May 10, 2005, in Webberville. More details will follow.
For more information, please visit MMCA's web site at www.mmca-mi.com.
Philadelphia
The Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference will take place April 27-30, 2005 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, in the heart of historic Philadelphia. The event will offer educational sessions during the four-day conference, with the exhibit hall open for the last three days of the conference.
Attendees can visit more than 250 exhibits and participate in over 80 AIA accredited educational seminars and workshops covering a wide array of topics and product segments, including commercial, institutional, public and residential traditional building. The Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference will provide a broader mix of educational programming and offer a wide array of products and services for the professionals architects, builders, designers, developers, contractors, building owners, facility managers and preservationists - working in traditional building and historic restoration and renovation.
"The new name, the Traditional Building Exhibition and Conference, better reflects the show's purpose and simply states what our attendees do," says Peter H. Miller, President, Restore Media, LLC.
"The scope of our audience's work is expanding, whether it's the preservation of a historic building, a sympathetic addition to an old house, a new urban in-fill project into a historic district, or a traditional neighborhood development. As a result, the breadth of information we deliver must also expand," explains Miller.
For more information, visit www.traditionalbuildingshow.com or, for general information or registration questions, call (781) 779-1560.
Texas
In an effort to increase market share, the Texas Masonry Council (TMC) is developing a new Certification Program. Bobby Gladu of Artisan Masonry is leading this
Committee Approves
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In March, the House Education & the Workforce Committee approved the Small Business Health Fairness Act (H.R. 525), a bill that will significantly expand access to health coverage for many of the 45 million Americans who are currently uninsured. The bill allows small businesses to band together through association health plans (AHPs) and provide quality health care to their workers at a lower cost. An identical measure was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 by a vote of 252-162.
"With the support of President Bush, the Labor Department and bipartisan backing in Congress, we hope to move this bill quickly through the House and Senate so that uninsured families can begin to access quality health insurance," says Committee Chairman and bill co-sponsor John Boehner (R-OH).
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