Happy New Year From Region 8

Conference registration for the 2012 Region VIII conference is now live at the VPPPA website - https://secure.vpppa.org/vpppa/forms/regionreg/  We will again be holding our event at the Doubletree Denver Tech on May 2^nd & 3^rd.  Pre-conference workshops (VPP 101, SSQ, Applications Workshop) will be held on Tuesday, May 1^st.

Don’t forget – we are still accepting breakout session submissions.  We want to hear your best practices and successful strategies for enhancing VPP!

2012 Elections: Four positions will be open for election in 2012 – Vice-Chair; Secretary; Non-Union Site Representative; and Director-at-Large.  Please submit your nominations to Guy Robison (robisong@battelle.org).

Know someone who’s done an outstanding job with VPP outreach and Mentoring?  Nominate them for the Bervin Hall Memorial Award and recognize all their hard work!  Nominations should be sent directly to me – f_tonys@marvin.com.