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NADRA Atlanta Chapter June Meeting Recap
NADRA
A few highlights from the meeting:
- It was another successful meeting for the Atlanta NADRA Chapter on Tuesday, June 18 held at the Ivy in Buckhead. Even with the busy season, summer vacations and our crazy weather we still had 35 in attendance with several visitors.
- Special thanks to Joey Matthews and Mark Guthrie of FastenMaster for sponsoring this month's meeting. Mark gave an informative and interesting presentation centered on deck failure and examining proper deck building to avoid failure.
- We will set aside time in the August meeting to thoroughly review the current proposed code changes for Georgia and we will give time for questions.
- We announced the kick off for Deck for this year's Deck For A Solider build.
- Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at the Ivey in Buckhead. Our sponsor for the meeting will be Dixie Plywood and our guest speaker will be the President of Dixie, Danny Bachman
- Read full recap here
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