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The Elevator Contractors of America (ECA) will hold its 2010 Annual Membership Meeting on March 21-23 at the Marco Beach Ocean Resort in Marco Island, Florida. The itinerary will include a welcome reception and education sessions. Donald Vollrath of Magnetek, Inc. will present “Benefits of Regenerative Drives” on March 22. Computerized Elevator Control and Magnetek are sponsoring the meeting. For more information, contact ECA Treasurer Buddy Potts at phone: (413) 786-7000, ext. 118 or e-mail: bpotts@bseco.com.

On March 1, the Korea Lift College began its first semester of operation with 220 new students. Located in Songjong-Ri Geochang-Eup Kyungnam, South Korea, the school offers five two-year courses, including Lift Safety Management, Lift Electrical Design, Lift Mechanical Design, Lift Mechatronics and Lift Maintenance Engineering. Sung-Il Lee is president of the college.

NAESA International commemorated the fifth anniversary of its Canadian region by donating US$500 to the Association for Workplace Tragedy Family Support --Threads of Life. A national, registered charitable organization, Threads of Life provides a one-on-one peer support program to families affected by a workplace fatality, life-altering injury or occupational disease. Trained volunteer family guides who have firsthand experience of workplace tragedy provide these families with an understanding of the difficulties they must face. For more information, contact NAESA at website: www.naesai.org.

According to WABC Eyewitness News, a 35-year-old Bronx, New York, man fell to his death down an elevator shaft at his apartment building in Mount Hope on March 1. The incident reportedly occurred while the man and his wife were moving a mattress to their new apartment, when the man opened a freight elevator door and backed into an open space, plummeting two floors to the ground below. The incident is under investigation.