Events

The presentation this morning was about the benefits of using refuse to fuel electric power   plants. John Waffenscmiodt of American Re-Fuels gave an excellent comparison of the environmental effects of this technology Vs landfilling. The portion of the waste stream that is burned to create power replaces 55,000 trucks burning 6.6 million gallons of deisel fuel.…

Today I announced that LIMBA will have an occasional joint meeting with Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT). This will expose more people to the LIMBA program. We will have our first joint meeting in January.   Congressman Bishop was our speaker this morning and he was a font of information. The congressman is a…

    This morning our guest speaker was Ross Ain. Ross represents Caithness Energy, and has worked closely with LIA board member and president of Entek Power Systems, Harry Davitian. Harry and Ross came this morning equipped with an impressive, and easy to understand presentation. LIMBA"s Treasurer, Bill Miller conducted the meeting.     The presentation was a discussion…

  This morning we were scheduled to have Farmingdale University's President Jon Gibralter. He called a few days ago and postponed because of a commitment to be in Albany. Never at a loss, we changed the format to a "round table discussion."    Starting off with a brief rehash of the presidential election, we then…

This week we had Mary Scott give a presentation on the documentary that she produced with her co-producer Abby Dress. The film is "Wings of Our Own" and will be shown for the first time Monday Nov 29th. Their will be a reception with cocktails and the details are below. The film is about women…

The president and CEO of Suffolk Banklcorp, Tom Kohlman was our speaker this morning. Suffolk County National Bank is the entity that is familiar to all of us. Tom gave us an overview of how community banks differ from money market banks. Essentially these community banks have more control over the funds that they work…

Today we had the pleasure of having the commanding officer of the Air Wing 106, National Guard. Col. Michael Canders gave an overview of the unit that works closely with US Coast Guard as well as local police. The unit is available for various search and rescue missions as well as it's primary purpose of…