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Citing contributions in developing salt management policy positions and supporting Snowfighter training by the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), TAC today bestowed on Salt Institute president Dick Hanneman its Award for Service, one of four presented at the TAC annual meeting in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
From the beaming cover photo of incoming American Public Works Association president Larry Frevert, the October issue of APWA Reporter is salt-friendly. When Larry directed public works activities for Kansas City, MO, he also chaired the APWA Winter Maintenance Sub-committee and laid the foundation for its emergence as one of APWA's more creative and energetic committees. Larry's column tells his admiration for his dad's commitment to public works with a story about being awakened by a telephone call at 3 am with the message: "it's snowing, it's time to get the crews out." Larry knows winter. And salt. Congratulations, Larry.
The October issue is APWA Reporter's annual winter maintenance issue. The first article salutes the just-concluded chairmanship of Larry's successor as Sub-committee chair, Bret Hodne of the City of West Des Moines, IA, written by his successor, Mark DeVries of McHenry County, IL.
All three leaders are APWA award winners. And all of them know salt. All have won the Salt Institute's Excellence in Storage award.
The issue unfolds with further stories on AASHTO's suite of computer-based snowfighter training modules (by Mark DeVries), "an innovative solution for snowfighter training" on the new Salt Institute/National LTAP training tool (by its author, Indiana University of Pennsylvania sociology professor John Anderson), a couple important articles on preparing winter operations manuals (including Dewey Amsler's condensation of his recent three-part article on that subject in the Salt Institute's Salt and Highway Deicing newsletter and which specifically directs readers to the Institute's online snowfighter's library), and my article on the new Report 577 tool to help snowfighter's select the right deicer -- most often salt. Another guest columnist from Salt and Highway Deicing, Mark Pinet wraps up the issue with a piece on "the economics of witner focused safety investments."
The entire issue's well worth a careful read. It should be avalable online shortly.