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NPMA to Introduce Private Health Insurance Exchange this Summer

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NPMA Announces Results of 2017-2018 Board of Directors Election

NPMA is pleased to announce the results of its annual board of director elections.

J. Bryan Cooksey, III (McCall Service Inc., Jacksonville, FL) will serve as President.

Dennis Jenkins (ABC Home & Commercial Services, Lewisville, TX) will serve as President-Elect.

Chris Gorecki (Orkin Pest Control, Atlanta, GA) will serve as Treasurer.

Scott Steckel (Varment Guard Environmental Services, Inc., Columbus, OH) will serve as Secretary.

Chuck Tindol (Allgood Pest Solutions, Knoxville, TN) will serve as Immediate Past President.

Each of the newly elected directors will begin their term of office on July 1, 2017. New members of the Board of Directors include:

Past President Representative: Laura Simpson (Dugas Pest Control, Baton Rouge, LA)

At Large Director: Jerry Batzner (Batzner Pest Control, Inc., Waukesha, WI)

At Large Director: Faye Golden (Cook’s Pest Control, Inc., Decatur, AL)

At Large Director: Dayton Hylton (Dayton’s Pest Control Services, Inc., Knoxville, TN)

At Large Director: Kevin Lemasters (EnviroPest, Loveland, CO)

At Large Director: Jason Payne (Payne Pest Management, Inc., San Diego, CA)

Region 1 Director: Sarah Thomas-Clark (Thomas Pest Services, Inc., Albany, NY)

Region 4 Director: Thomas Cantu (Bug Off Pest Control, Pharr, TX)

These individuals join the current NPMA Board members to round out the association’s leadership:

At Large Director: Ben Johnson (ABC Home & Commercial Services, Houston, TX)

At Large Director: Andrew Klein (Assured Environments, New York, NY)

At Large Director: Justin McCauley (McCauley Services, Benton, AR)

At Large Director: Alfie Treleven (Sprague Pest Solutions, Tacoma, WA)

Region 2 Director: Scott Fortson (Terminix Service, Inc., Columbia, SC)

Region 3 Director: Nicole Kirwan Keefe (Clark Pest Control, Lodi, CA)

Region 5 Director: Sandy Costa (Green Leaf Pest Control, Bradford, Ontario, Canada)

"NPMA is delighted to welcome our newly elected Board and Executive Committee," says NPMA Chief Executive Officer Dominique Stumpf, CMP, CAE. "We are fortunate to have excellent leaders who will work together to encourage high levels of competence, knowledge and performance in the industry."

Members Make Headlines

Arrow Announces the E. Raymond Crim, III Scholarship Program

Atlanta-based Arrow Exterminators is proud to announce the establishment of the E. Raymond Crim III Scholarship Program. Arrow Exterminators will fund this five thousand-dollar scholarship annually and preference will be given to applicants with military service and to individuals whose families serve in the pest control industry. This scholarship is designed to be complimentary to existing scholarships within the industry.

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Weekly Headlines

A Model for Effective, Reduced-Cost Bed Bug Monitoring

Entomology Today

A new study finds that placing just a few pitfall traps for bed bugs—or even just one—can have a high success rate in detecting low-level infestations in a studio or one-bedroom apartment, which could lower the cost of monitoring and increase adoption in housing facilities where resources for pest management are limited.

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This Bug Can Eat Plastic. But Can It Clean Up Our Mess?

National Geographic

Scientists have discovered that wax worms can eat plastic bags. Could that help us reduce plastic pollution?

Visit http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/wax-worms-eat-plastic-polyethylene-trash-pollution-cleanup/ to view the full article online.

Florida Tests Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes to Kill Off Bugs

ABC News

Thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes were released in the wild Tuesday near Key West, testing a new way to kill mosquitoes that carry Zika and other viruses. The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District released 20,000 male mosquitoes infected by the Kentucky-based company MosquitoMate with naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria.

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This Surprising Rodent Can Survive 18 Minutes Without Oxygen

National Geographic

A new study finds that the naked mole rat, which lives in highly populated underground burrows, can tolerate hours of very low oxygen levels and survive up to 18 minutes of anoxia, or total oxygen deprivation.

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Dogs Becoming Big Part of Bedbug Battle

WNDU

Canines have become well known for their ability to sniff out things like drugs and bombs, and now, pest control is going to the dogs.

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