Table of Contents

• COMMITTEE REPORTS
  • MEMBERSHIP REPORT
  • SOCIAL REPORT
  • SPEAKER COORDINATOR REPORT
  • TREASURER REPORT
• LEADS
• NOTABLE MENTIONS
• BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
• MAIN SPEAKER

Committee Reports

Membership Report
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Lisa Wolfe knows someone that does flood and fire restoration work.  She wanted to find out if there were any conflicts in the group before she talked to him.

Social Report
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Lisa Wolfe is looking into a Grand Canyon Railway trip.  The busy season begins after Memorial Day.  The rate is $350 per adult couple and includes all taxes.  It does not include the bus tour.  A discount is available for groups of 16 or more.

Other suggested social activities include a murder mystery dinner, dolly steamboat tour and spring fling.

Speaker Coordinator Report
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Main Speaker

• 03/17/06     Bylaws Committee Update
• 03/24/06     Phyllis Prater

Spotlight Speaker

• 03/17/06     Mike Tanner
• 03/24/06     Jim Bache

Treasurer Report

The second quarter dues billing was mailed out on March 1st.   We have $14000 in the account.  A couple of members have past due amounts.

Leads Report

16-13, 17-34, 41-13, 41-26, 28-17, 07-26, 07-46, 07-53, 15-53, 15-24, 15-02, 38-26, 47-25, 22-53, 31-03, 31-23.

This week's leads focus...

• Stephan Chilton
• Randy Clark
• Dave Crissman

Notable Mentions

Roger Carpenter is discontinuing his franchise.  He is changing to a wine bar and serving food (no kitchen).  His new name will be Down Under Wines.

The new board met last week to discuss the suggestions brought up at a recent round table meeting.  They are going to try to incorporate the ideas that were presented.  They are going to bring in more outside speakers.  They are going to schedule more meetings at member locations and also try to organize more social events (in town, less expensive).  They are also looking into somehow changing the leads & intro part of the meeting but it will not be eliminated altogether.  Also, if you would like to leave an anonymous business issue to be discussed, you can write it down and leave it with the name badges.

Business Spotlight 

Bill LaLonde was today's Business Spotlight.  Bill is in the swimming pool business.  He gets asked a lot about salt chlorification so he decided to talk about it today.  The salt content of a salt water pool is only 1/10th of that in the ocean.   There are 3 parts to this system.  (1) Cell /plumbing that takes the chlorine from the salt, (2) Controller that works with the cell and (3) the salt you put in.  The downside to having a salt chlorinator is that high concentrations of salt do affect concrete (above 4000 ppm).  But most systems have trouble light indicators which either tell you that your salt is low or the cell needs to be cleaned.  The best thing to do is take a water sample to your local pool store and they can tell you what needs to be done.  The self cleaning systems work very well.  To keep you calcium count as low as possible, you should drain your pool every couple of years.

Sandro Menasci
Mirabel Service Center, Inc

Sandro Menasci was born in Rome, Italy.  His family lived there for 11 years before moving to Montreal, Canada.  He has lead a fortunate life.  His mother and wife are both very special to him.  He has 2 sons and 3 grandchildren that he is very proud of.  His entire family lives here with the exception of his 81-year-old father. 

As many already know, Sandro is now in his new location.  It is very nice.  The employees are very happy.  This new location came full of gadgets.  Sandro now has 2, 3 or 4 of everything he could possibly need.  In fact, he is trying to sell some of it. 

He bought the assets of the business and the rights to the name.  The business came complete with a database of their past clients.  He just sent out a mass mailing to these clients and will soon send out a mailing to his own clientele from Broadway & Gilbert. 

The business he purchased had a good reputation.  The problem was in management.  The owners had a couple of different business ventures and the person running things was a gadget guy.  They made a lot of money but had no profit because he spent so  much on gadgets. 

Unlike much of his competition, Sandro continues to take educational classes to keep up with the changes in automobiles. 

It is important to change your oil every 3000 miles.  Between the heat, the dust and the stop-n-go, we are in a severe weather climate.  And it is a good idea to let your car warm up and let the oil circulate before you rev up the rpms.

People are afraid to get their car inspected because they are afraid we will find something wrong.

If your new car is not running right, a lot of times it is in the software and not mechanical.

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