I hope this edition of the newsletter finds everyone well.  Thanks to everyone who attended this year's annual conference, it was a great one.  For those of you who were unable to attend, we missed you, although we understand.  Hopefully we all will weather this storm and return to the training schedule soon.  I would like to thank Tim Hunter and his committee for an excellent and successful conference. 

I know some of the attendees had difficulty with checking into their rooms prior to 1500, but please keep in mind the industry standard is check-in after 1500.  The hotel, just as the airline industry, overbooks to cover for the "no shows", so they had difficulty keeping up with cleaning the rooms for preparing for our arrival.  They have been made aware.  Otherwise the hotel staff was accommodating and took good care of us. 

The banquet on the Midway was a great success and the food was excellent.  Everyone had a great time.   

Remember when we return to San Diego in 2011 we will move the conference a week a forward, the week after Memorial week, as a high tech company has negotiated a deal with CAHN for our meeting space during our normal week, so mark your calendars for 2011. 

Just to keep everyone in the loop for the future, we have begun to search for new hotels and locations to conduct our 2013 conference.  I have looked at several hotels in the Anaheim area and we are also going to look into the Long Beach area as well.  Any input you have on locations would be gladly accepted.  

Please continue to attend your quarterly trainings to keep current as your regional boards continue to work hard to provide you with great training. 

As always this is your association, so please don't hesitate to contact any member of the regional or state board with input or questions.

Thanks for another great year,

Matt Thomas

President