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Message from BANNJ President John Cioletti
Thank you to over 90 golfers, both members and guests, who attended our Annual Golf Outing at White Beeches Golf & Country Club on September 28th and to all of our generous sponsors featured below who helped to make the event a great success. It was a beautiful day, and everyone enjoyed being outdoors making new business connections and friendships. Special thanks to our wonderful volunteers who made the event possible including Kim Little of Sub Zero, Candy Gordon-Geanoules of SAX, LLP., Shannon Grizil of SportProsUSA, Michael Kurpiel of Carter Lumber, Peggy Mathieu and Shellie Topper and Melanie Statlander of California Closets. White Beeches Golf & Country Club staff and Pro Shop did a great job, and congratulations to all of our golf tournament winners:
First Place
Foursome: Derek Weissman, Art Moss, Hans Erdenberger, Brian Foley
Second Place Foursome: Billy Procida, Ralph Ruggero, Matt McCrudden, Fred Hagen
Most Honest Foursome: Craig Kmiecik, Terry Greenbaum, Michael Greenbaum, Joe
Damanti
Closest to Line: John Cioletti
Closest to Pin: Mike Black
Longest Drive: Eric Gormeley
We greatly appreciate all of the generous support of the outing during this very difficult time. Please note that our 2021 Annual Golf Outing is scheduled for Monday, May 24th at White Beeches so hope to see you there! View Photos from the Golf Outing and all events on our website Photo Gallery at https://www.bannj.org/image-gallery/ or on our Facebook page Here.
NEXT UP: Be sure to register today for the four-hour OSHA Fall Prevention Training Course on Thursday, October 15th. The course will be virtual and presented through WebEx. Certificates will be given at the conclusion on the class. Protect your employees’ safety and avoid huge penalties and fines by getting the information you need to know. The course is free, but you must register at https://members.bannj.org/events.
Sad News:
Our deepest condolences to builder board member Robert Krakowiak of Dream
Builders, his wife Amanda and family on the recent passing of Amanda’s father,
Paul Mortola. A lovely tribute of Mr.
Mortola’s life can be viewed here: https://memorials.vpmemorial.com/paul-mortola/4336278/index.php.
Builder:
Eric Gormeley
Deugen Development
720 Monroe Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-210-8622
ejg@deugen.com
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), part of our 3 in 1 membership, is holding a national fall membership drive from September through November 2020 where participating local associations will receive monetary awards for increases in membership numbers. To that end, BANNJ is also holding a membership drive to benefit our members who help recruit during this time period by discounting membership dues renewal invoices as follows:
$50 off for 1 new member brought in
$150 off for 2 new members
$300 off for 3 new members
$400 off for 4 new members and free membership renewal dues of $753 for 5 or more new members brought into the association during the drive.
We hope you will all join in to help our association grow and earn rewards for your company in the process!
Creative Design Construction and Remodeling is a Design-Build firm offering our clients a time and money savings "one-stop" shopping advantage" complete with our own award-winning in-house design team, cabinet department and showroom. Creative Design Cabinet Solutions is the retail division of Creative Design Construction and Remodeling. We offer stock, semi-custom and full-custom cabinetry for do-it-yourselfers, builders, architects, and interior designers. We encourage the use of our cabinet installation team, or we can simply just deliver the cabinets to your location.
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Technology’s Role in Life After the Pandemic will be the Key to Agility
By Michael Mullin, President
Integrated Business Systems (IBS)
The pandemic has left no business process untouched. Leaders had one
goal in mind as plans shifted: keep the company up and running. Behind the
fixes that aided disruption, for some, was automation technology spun up
specifically to respond to the changes that lie ahead....continue here
Thursday, October 15th -
Fall Prevention in Residential Construction Training
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the
Job-Site Safety Institute (JSI) has developed a 4-hour online seminar through
WebEx for builders, trade contractors, supervisors and workers. This training program focuses on identifying
fall hazards in residential construction, as well as, providing student
attendees an understanding of the OSHA fall protection regulations and safe
work practices to prevent fall-related injuries and deaths. More details
including time, course syllabus and materials to follow.
Monday January 11th 2021 at 10:00AM Virtual Economic & Housing Forecast by NAHB Chief Economist Dr. Robert Dietz. - Do not miss very valuable information from this prominent housing industry expert on what to expect for your business in the coming year.
