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TIAA Associate Member Puts on Lone Star Skeet Shoot for Wounded Warriors Wounded warriors currently taking part in rehabilitation programs at the San Antonio Military Medical Center
Lone Star Radiator employees and wounded warrior participants lined up to thank the event’s sponsors
took aim on October 1 at a free skeet shoot in Rio Medina, TX, courtesy of
Lone Star Radiator Company, an associate member of the Texas Independent Automotive Association (TIAA). Lone Star Radiator Company honored America’s military heroes for their extreme sacrifices in combat by hosting the event. With the help of sponsors, which included non-profit Veteran Outdoors, the wounded military personnel were equipped with shotguns, ammo and everything else needed to fire at the elusive clay birds. The event was sponsored by Lone Star Radiator Company, Rio Skeet Mobile Skeet Shoots, Monterey
sidebar p. 30). In approximately 45 days, Jones and his department will issue an official Notice of Proposed Action. The meeting was chaired by Teresa A. Campbell of the DOI’s Legal division and attended by 50–60 invitation-only repairers, insurers, and representatives of both OE and Aftermarket parts manufacturers. In a letter to invited participants sent to body shops, insurers and aftermarket parts vendors and manufacturers, the Commissioner’s office wrote: “The purpose of these discussions is to permit certain interested and affected persons See DOI Meeting, Page 26
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In the first major policy meeting directly affecting the collision repair industry, representatives of Insurance Commissioner David Jones called a pre-notice public meeting for discussions on regulations regarding standards for reasonable repairs and the use of aftermarket parts on November 16th in San Francisco. In preparation for the “pre-notice public discussions,” the Commissioner released a series of proposed revisions to the California Code of Regulations that was discussed and reviewed in depth at the meeting (see
Voices Heard Amid Revving Engines at SEMA, What the Collision Repairers Said and Heard by John Yoswick
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California DOI Meeting Addresses Regulations Affecting Aftermarket Parts and Accountability by Ed Attanasio
VOL. 29 ISSUE 12 DECEMBER 2011
One of three SEMA Show Halls hosting 2,000 vehicles and 135,000 attendees
When you read a sampling of comments from among the 135,000 people in Vegas during SEMA week—no matter how you look at it—SEMA has all the diversity of a small city. A city where, for love or profit, all the citizens share a car obsession, but it’s a city-sized population nonetheless. About 132,000 people flooded into Las Vegas in November for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) tradeshow, with about half of those pegged by show organizers as “buyers.” That’s about a 17 percent jump in show attendance over last year. They could have spent a day just checking out the approximately 2,000 cars on display in and in front See SEMA Heard & Said, Page 32
TIAA Donates to High School Automotive Program
Hooge. According to Hooge, the donation funds will be used for tools and uniforms for students. The Academy helps prepare high school students for work in the automotive industry by combining students interested in automotive technologies from several local area high schools into one statewide program. The Automotive Technology Academy is a state of the art facility where students are challenged to become life-long learners in the ever-changing automotive industry. Any David Bailey, Director of the Automotive Technology NEISD high school stuAcademy, accepts a $1,000 donation from the TIAA’s dent interested in this curMembership Director, Hunter Hooge riculum can attend the School District (NEISD) in San An- facility for this two period course. tonio, Texas. Admittance into the program is by David Bailey, Director of The application which is reviewed and Automotive Technology Academy, followed by an interview with an inreceived the check from TIAA’s structor. The Academy originally Membership Director, Hunter See TIAA Donation, Page 10
The Texas Independent Automotive Association (TIAA) presented a thousand dollar donation check to the Automotive Technology Academy on November 16 at a career fair for the North East Independent
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