A warm welcome is given to Barbara Stamatelos who has so graciously agreed to be our new newsletter editor! Please feel free to send articles, newsworthy items, announcements, etc to Barbara for inclusion in the Inkspot. Remember to send copies to Bill Slenter, our Webmaster, so he can include them on our Bay Section website. Barbara’s e-mail address is: astamatelo@aol.com. Bill can be reached through our website, www.cwea.org/sfb or by e-mailing him at bslenter@rmcengr.com.

The Bay Section Board and Committee Chairs held our annual planning meeting in February. This is an opportunity for us to plan and focus our energies on those things that we feel would best serve our members. Let me tell you, the Committee Chairs came to the meeting with great enthusiasm and energy for the upcoming year. Please, if you’re interested in getting more involved with the Bay Section, joining a committee is a great way to do so. I want to welcome our new Chairs: Cassie Prudhel from South San Francisco will be assisting Bill Ellgas with the Laboratory Committee and Paul Louis from Central San will be taking over the Collection System Committee. Welcome and glad to have you onboard!

Our March meeting was our annual student night where companies and agencies hold a "job fair", then we get to hear from a student who is doing some cutting edge research in the wastewater field. This year’s Student Night was a great success; many students and companies/agencies attended and all had a grand time. This annual event is one I always look forward to as a way to introduce ourselves to the future employees in our industry and have them introduce themselves.

Be sure to mark on your calendars our April dinner meeting which will be joint with the Santa Clara Valley Section (see the flyer in this newsletter). I like to have a good showing of Bay Section members at these joint meetings with other Sections. It’s not that I’m competing or anything … okay, maybe a little friendly competition. Actually, it’s a great opportunity to meet with old friends or maybe expand our contacts and exchange stories and information. I hope to see many of you there.

Until then … take care, be safe and enjoy life!