I hope everyone takes this opportunity to network with others in the industry. This can be a great outlet for you to vent your frustrations, share your successes, and have a sounding board with others in your field. Good luck!

The cost of health care is killing me. I talked to some people at the meeting last weekend to find out what they are doing with their insurance needs, but would like more input. I hope that MBNA gets a program going. They used to have a good insurance program and it made membership worthwhile.
--Craig Gramke
<mailto:gramkemonument@aol.com>

The Dept. of Revenue just visited. They are trying to say all monument companies are not manufacturing. This would cost my small shop about 500 to 1000 more a year in taxes.I showed them the Sanblaster and stone cutting equip. but they say we produce for each costomer a special stone. We need to lobby.