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Meet Your New 2012
Columbia River Chapter Board!
At our December holiday party we installed our new board for this coming year. We've got an amazing group of folks at the helm to serve you, our members. Please take a minute at our February meeting to introduce yourself to each of them.
Chapter Rep, Robin Fisher, swears in the 2012 Chapter Board
President - Randy Krebs
Chapter Representative - Robin Fisher, CMKBD
VP Programs - Kate Melton, CKD
VP Membership - Glenda McAdam
VP Professional Development - Spencer Hinkle, CKD
VP Technology & Communications - Kirstin Havnaer, AKBD
VP Academic Relations - Sharon Olsen, AKBD
VP Government Relations - Dorothy Harter, CKD, CBD
VP Strategic Planning - Mike Slaby
Treasurer - Marlyn Grant
Secretary - Azla Harrington
Past President - Jennifer Crawford, AKBD
The Board has already been working hard behind the scenes to bring you great programming this year. They are diligently planning our upcoming participation in the 2012 Spring Home & Garden Show, laying out this years' meetings and speakers and some will be attending Regional Officer Training on 1/19-20 in Tukwila, WA. Stay tuned for more great stuff in the months to come!
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Next Chapter Meeting
(NOTE: There will NOT be a meeting in January)
Please join us for:
"Increase Your Hardware & Plumbing IQ"
Thursday, February 2nd - 5:30-8:30pm
at Chown Hardware
**IMPORTANT NOTICES**
1. Everyone interested in attending must pre-register online whether paying by credit card OR by check. Click here for more details and to register.
2. You can now register multiple people and pay for everyone at the same time thanks to your input and requests!!
The registration deadline is Friday, January 27th
After 1/27, "pay-at-the-door" prices apply to all.
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PLEASE NOTE: Effective 11/1/11 all NSF checks written to NKBA Columbia River will also be charged all acquired NSF bank fees.
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Are you ready for BUILD 2012 ?
June 21 - 24, 2012
Eagle Crest Resort, Redmond, OR
Registration is now open!
January 15th is the deadline for BUILD
2012 early-bird registration.
After that the fees go up!
$150 now until 1/15
$175 from 1/15-4/30
$195 from 4/30-6/5
 Sponsorship Packet
For questions or more information, contact: Amy Bright | 503-730-8336
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Board Member UpdatesRobin Fisher, CMKBD - Chapter RepresentativeOn January 13th I will be attending a national Chapter Rep meeting in Tampa, FL. As your Chapter Rep, I attend two of these meetings per year - one in person and one by phone. Our main goal is to bring concerns from our membership to our national officers and learn more about what other chapters are doing. I'll let you know what I learn!
Our chapter was the 2011 Region 9 winner of the NKBA "Best Membership Meeting" with our entry from our event in August at the Gordon House. We were awarded $500 and have been put in the running with the rest of the Regional Winners for a $1,000 prize. The results will be announced in April at KBIS 2012, so keep your fingers crossed!
Spencer Hinkle, CKD - VP Professional Development GLAD TO BE HERE! Sandy Hayes, CMKBD and I are co-chairing the Columbia River Chapter's Professional Development Board position for 2012-2014. I oversee the NKBA Accredited Design/Build Remodeling program at Portland Community College (and you all know Master Kitchen and Bath Designer Sandy Hayes!). I am excited to be involved with leadership in our local NKBA chapter, and Professional Development is a perfect fit for me. Sandy and I have two major goals- first, to put together Study Groups that are as successful as those managed by our predecessor, Chelly Wentworth. Chelly did an amazing job and left us great records as well as valuable words of wisdom. We hope to assemble a formidable group of NKBA Certified instructors for the study groups, so if you are interested in teaching please contact me at hinkle96@gmail.com . Our second goal is to partner with PCC's Building Construction and Interior Design Programs to offer more CEU opportunities for our members. Because it is difficult to keep up with our changing industry, classes dealing with aging in place, building science, management and sustainable design, to mention a few, are valuable resources for our members." If you are planning to take the AKBD, CKD or CBD exam, join our study group for a focused review of the NKBA body of knowledge. Contact me at hinkle96@gmail.com for details.
Glenda McAdam - VP Membership
RAPHAEL HOUSE RESULTS Thank you to all who participated in the fund raiser for Raphael House at our December meeting. We had over 60 items donated for raffle prizes which allowed us to, in turn, donate $1,540.00 to Raphael House. Thanks also to our members who provided household items and to Susan Grady who was kind enough to deliver everything to the House. THANK YOU! I also just wanted to thank everyone for your attendance at the NKBA meetings during the past two years that I've served as VP Programs. It's always challenging to present programs which meet the needs of the entire membership and I hope you enjoyed what we created. I really appreciated the support I received from the Board and hope for continued growth as I pass the torch to Kate Melton, your new VP Programs for 2012-2014! Kirstin Havnaer, AKBD - VP Technology & Communications Happy New Year everyone! Just a couple things to bring to your attention.
NEW MEETING REGISTRATION POLICY
First, we've updated our meeting registration process and will now require everyone to pre-register online whether paying by check or by credit card. This will simplify the process on our end in performing monthly bank reconciliations and will give us a quicker headcounts for our meeting hosts. It's all about efficiency, baby.
MEMBERSHIP SURVEY
Second, be on the lookout for our electronic membership survey sometime in January. Just as we did in 2010, we'd like to hear from all of you about what's working and not working in terms of your membership in NKBA. We promise that it will be a short survey in hopes that we'll capture answers from as many of you as possible. Thanks in advance for your participation.
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