NFIB has hosted and attended some great events over the past month. It’s always great for us to get out of the office and the State House and meet our member s face to face. We love hearing your stories and getting to know you better. If you made it to one of our recent events, thank you for attending! If you haven’t made it to an NFIB event yet, I hope you will join us at the next event in your neck of the woods. We’re always looking for members to host us, so if you are interested in hosting a meeting, let us know by emailing Miranda Bond at [email protected]
May 27 – End of Session Wrap-Up Reception with Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford hosted by Patricia Baldwin at her business Reliable Contracting in Gambrills, MD
It’s always an honor when we can host someone like the Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford. He gave a great speech and gave us some “real talk” about how things are going in Annapolis. He was also gracious enough to shake hands and take photos with everyone in the room. You can view all of the photos here.
While the Lt. Governor was the star of the show, we also really enjoyed seeing familiar faces and meeting new members in person.
We hope you can join us in Gambrills the next time Patricia Baldwin hosts us at her business.
June 10 – “The Future of Fracking in Maryland” with Drew Cobbs, API
We were happy to make it over to Cumberland to see our members in that neck of the woods. We hosted a very informative meeting with Drew Cobbs who is an expert on the fracking issue. Drew has been the Executive Director of the Maryland Petroleum Council for 23 years and API’s Eastern Region director for 15 years and we were lucky to have him.
It was great meeting our members in Western Maryland. There was a lot of enthusiasm in the room for bringing fracking to the area and the economic benefits that could potentially help Western Maryland.
June 12 – NFIB Member Business Sunrise Safety Services’ 20th Anniversary
We attended the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Sunrise Safety Services in Glen Burnie. Cathy Vogel, founder of Sunrise Safety Services, is a true small business success story. She started her business in June of 1995 in an 8’x12’ room in her basement. She started with $35,000 and four employees. Cathy and her employees worked hard for many years installing pavement markings, doing traffic control and striping the highways. Sunrise is now housed in a 30,000 square foot facility with 80+ employees, a fleet of 31 trucks and is the largest minority owned sign fabrication shop manufacturer in the State of Maryland.
It’s not a surprise that Cathy has done so well over the years; she treats each and every staff member like family and has even adopted some NFIB staff members into the Sunrise family.
If your business has an anniversary coming up or if there’s another milestone that you’re celebrating, let us know! We would love to share your story.
It has bene a busy couple of weeks for us and we will be taking a break from meetings since many of our members will be taking vacation, traveling for business, attending conferences and enjoying family time. We’re already planning a series of meetings in the fall and look forward to seeing all of you! Once again if you would like to host or have an idea for a meeting, please let us know, we love hearing your ideas! Email Miranda at [email protected]or call 202-314-2070
