We are almost six months into our 2018 year of ABCRI and our activities, particularly through our very busy committees have been going strong.   Our new Chapter President, Maureen Grillo has been with us almost a full year and has taken on the challenge of learning the ropes and meeting our members. She’s already signed up five new members and attended two national ABC conferences and brought back great ideas. Our Strategic Plan set the focus for our Board and Committees:

        Expanding our brand and awareness through marketing

        Providing education and training to our members

        Legislative oversight via our Government Affairs committee.

 We are making strides in all these areas. Our training seminars have been well attended. We have testified on behalf of our members on key legislation. We are represented on the Business Coalition. We’ve added some networking “drinks and appies” evenings in place of the standard dinner meetings for a change of pace. And we helped RICTA celebrate their 25 ^th Anniversary!  Anne Powers, Chair