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Sweeps Say
What year was your favorite NCSG Convention?
“St. Louis... I traveled to the NCSG convention in a rented motor home along with 8 chimney sweeps including Bill & Leslie Van Dusen, Steven Scalley and Tedd Cooke and three others. We parked the motor home in the St. Louis Championship Cardinal ballpark. At night would travel the streets of St. Louis including Muddy Waters. Returning from St. Louis, a brand new sweep was stranded out there and needed a ride back. His name is Billy Sweet. He paid us for his return trip back with a case of beer!” – David Hannah, Blue Collar Entrepreneur Magazine
“So many, but maybe Hershey? 33” of snow the day before. And the rest… well, you just had to be there” – Joseph Sauter, Your Chimney Sweep
“Every convention is great some offer a lot more after hours places. My favorites: 1.St. Louis, 2.Orlando, 3.Louisville, everywhere else is tied for 4th.” – Tim Smith, Certified Chimney Care
“Florida 2016. I earned my certification and really started to get involved in the industry.” –
David Steward, Copper Ridge Chimney LLC “I would rate the one Dave Hannah said in St. Louis as number1. Number 2 was Hershey convention (as Joe Sauter said, you had to be there). But what made that more memorable for me was I went down early because of the snow storm and Ken Robinson had no help to build his two masonry structures for his seminar, so I jumped in and helped him with it. Kevin Deluceny was walking around with Cliff Slagle and saw what I was doing and asked me to work on the twisted chimney project the following year with him. That was the first Sweeps Week. I also remember that is the year Ken Robinson got the President’s Award. I was sitting at the table with him and his wife when it happened and I was so proud of a moment to be shared with such a great man and friend. That is really where my life as a sweep changed.” – Steven Scally, Fireside Sweeps, LLC
