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Nebraska Section AWWA Annual ConferenceNovember 6-7, 2002, Kearney

2003 Board of Governors, from left, front: Vice-Chair Larry Andreasen, City of Fremont; Chair Dennis Watts, City of Norfolk; Chair-Elect Kristine Ranslem, City of Albion; Trustee & Past Chair Chris Koenig, HGM Associates, Inc. Back: Director John Mirivosky,Lincoln Water System; Trustee Mike Wentink, Nebraska Health & Human Services; Treasurer Kevin Tobin, Metropolitan UtilitiesDistrict; Secretary Tony Bilek, Mc2, Inc. Unavailable for photo: Trustee Paul Markowski, City of Ord.

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Trustee Paul Markowski, City of Ord

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Jack Daniel’s presentation on Safe Drinking Water regula-tions brought a packed house. Jack is the administratorof the Department Regulation and Licensure, NebraskaHealth and Human Services.

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Joint APWA and AWWA Lunch with speaker Andy Richardson ofArizona, AWWA vice-president. Richardson talked about the benefitsof being an AWWA member and urged current members to becomeinvolved in their Section.

Bottom photo, from left: Larry Andreasen, City of Fremont; KristineRanslem, City of Albion; John Miriovsky, Lincoln Water System;Andy Richardson; Chris Koenig, HGM Associates, Inc.

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Business meeting, from left: Chip Haas, HDR Engineering, Inc. (back to camera); Nancy Gruwell, HDR Engineer-ing; Paul Markowski, City of Ord; John Miriovsky, Lincoln Water System; Don Franklin, Gurney & Associates;George Reed, Metropolitan Utilities District; Mike Wentink, Nebraska Health & Human Service; Rob Pierce,League of Nebraska Municipalities; Larry Andreasen, City of Fremont (face hidden); Kristine Ranslem, City ofAlbion; and Andy Richardson, National AWWA vice-president.

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Networking

From left: Daryl Kottwitz, program manager, HDR Engineering, Inc., Omaha, visits with Kirk Pfeffer, engineeringmanager, City of Omaha, Mike Arends, environmental programs engineer, City of Omaha, and Debra Leigh, presi-dent, Leigh Environmental Equipment, Inc., Omaha.

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From left: Jim Condon, vice-president, Olsson Associates, Lincoln; Dave Meisinger, wastewater treatment plantsupervisor, City of Plattsmouth; Jim Mahoney, sales representative, Insituform Technologies USA, Inc.,Johnston, IA, and Lincoln Williams, Technical Maintenance & Service Co., Inc., Lincoln.

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From left: Rick Bay, Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality; Terry O’Brien, director of Wahoo Engineer-ing, JEO Consulting Group, Inc., Wahoo, NE, and Tom Fuenning, environmental engineer II, Nebraska Departmentof Environmental Quality, Lincoln.

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From left: James French, Collector Wells International, Inc. Columbus, OH; Subhash Jha, Nebraska Health & Hu-man Services; Dennis Watts (back to camera) and Dennis Smith, City of Norfolk; Tom Schuerman (back to cam-era) Nebraska Health & Human Services; and Bill Knoll, Black & Veatch, Aurora, CO.

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Top Ops Challenge

Eight teams signed up for the Top Ops Competition, organized by Chris Koenig (center, white shirt), HGM Associ-ates. Scott Borman and Doug Woodbeck, Nebraska Health & Human Services, (far right) were judges.

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The Top Ops Challenge drew another packed house.

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Teams 1 and 2.

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Teams 3 and 4.

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Teams 5 and 6.

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Teams 7 and 8.

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Each member ofthe first placeteam received a$500 registrationfee to representthe NebraskaSection AWWA atthe national com-petition, to beheld at the Na-tional AWWAConference, June22-26, 2003, inAnaheim, CA.

First Place Team,from left, back:Matt Helzer, Cityof St. Paul;Connelley Rice,City of Kearney.Front: KirkStocker, City ofKearney; JulieFrandsen, City ofGrand Island.Each received a$50 award.

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Second Place Team, fromleft, back: Harold Reynolds,City of Wayne; RonMorearty, City of Albion.Front: Paul Markowski andRollin Davis, City of Ord.Each received a $25 award.

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Third Place Team, fromleft, back: Chris Logue,Gene Siadek. Front:Kevin Tobin, DaveBellairs, all from the Met-ropolitan Utilities Dis-trict. Each received a $10award.

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Social HourSponsored by the exhibitors and sponsors.

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From left: Andy Kahle, ScottBorman (partially hidden), Ne-braska Health and Human Ser-vices; Chuck Thomerson, City ofColumbus; Jack Daniel, NebraskaHealth and Human Services.Orville Davidson, City of York(back to camera).

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Awards Banquet

Dr. Bruce Dvorak, UNL Civil Engineer-ing, accepts Lifetime Member Awardfor Dr. Joe Sherrard, from NationalAWWA Vice-Chair Andy Richardson.

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Chip Haas, HDR Engineering, Inc.,receives a Lifetime Member Awardfrom National AWWA Vice-Chair AndyRichardson.

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Water Industry Service Awards were presented to Len Skala, City of Papillion; Harlan Simmerman, Village of ElmCreek; Ken Ekeler, City of York; Dick Smith, Lincoln Water System; Jim Sell, City of Holdrege, and Ross Stebbins,Metropolitan Utilities District. From left, back: Jim Sell, Harlan Simmerman. Front: Ken Ekeler, National AWWAVice-Chair Andy Richardson, and Ross Stebbins. Len Skala and Dick Smith were unavailable for the photo.

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Dennis Watts, City of Norfolk,received the Water OperatorAward from the NebraskaHealth and Human Services.From left: Dennis and AndyRichardson, National AWWAvice-chair.

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George Warren Fuller AwardJack Daniel, Nebraska Health and Human Services, received the Fuller Award, the highest award presented byAWWA.

Prior-Year Fuller Awardees assemble to locate the newest awardee as Andy Richardson describes the 2002recipient’s life and contributions to the safe drinking water industry.

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Jack Daniel realizes Richardson is talking about “Jack Daniel,” when Richardson describes an invention Jackdesigned to aid in the sport of hunting.

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Jack’s wife and children make a surprise appearance to congratulate him.

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National AWWA Vice-Chair AndyRichardson places the Fuller Awardpin on Jack Daniel, as Jackstruggles to contain his emotions.

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Jack Daniel is speechless andthanks the Section member-ship with a one-sentence,“Thank you.”

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