With strong support from the Nilfisk Corporation, this year's MIHS booth at the Michigan Safety Conference (MSC) was a big success. Each year, MIHS runs a membership drive at the MSC. This year, we recruited 6 new members. If you know any of these people, please encourage them to participate in future MIHS events so that they can realize first hand the wonderful value and networking afforded by MIHS: Paul Aiken, Don Hinkson, Gerald Houvener, Bob Knobel, Oscar Rodriguez-Franco, and Greg Zigulis.

In addition, 19 people signed up for our e-mail event list. We're hoping that some of these folks can be convinced to join MIHS after they've had some exposure to our events and our terrific educational opportunities.

This year's membership drive was a big success due in large part to the Nilfisk Corporation. Nilfisk donated an "Eliminator" HEPA vacuum as the raffle prize for those either joined MIHS or joined our MIHS event mailing list. Many thanks to Tim Anderson and the Nilfisk corporation for their generous support. The winner of the raffle was Paul Aiken.

Lastly, I'd like to personally thank all the MIHS volunteers who staffed this year's MIHS booth. These people worked in 2-hour shifts and they (obviously) represented MIHS very well. This year's volunteers were: Pier-George Zanoni, Kristin Osterkamp, Ernie Chiodo, David Currier, Bill Cleary, Laura Randall, Tracy Parsons and Jennifer Lagerbohm with alternates of Rich McLonis, Janet Grapin, and Dave Hands.
We could not have done it without you -- THANKS.