OTA Bowling Meeting Results

We had a nice turnout at Enterprise Park Lanes in Springfield on February 25th. We had 21 bowlers and 5 observers. We played a 9-pin no tap, where if someone had knocked down 9 pins on their first ball, they were credited with a strike, sort of like getting a putt into tap-in range and calling it good. It still required hitting the head pin in all but one case, (there must have been some pin action on that shot). We had some really good scores but Scott Welsh, from Gold Partner Professional Turf Products edged out Lee Davis, golf course superintendent from Randel-Hinkle Golf Course in Mt. Grove. While Lee had the highest game at 241, Scott had a series of 629. Scott also lead his team of John Ripperger, assistant superintendent at Ledgestone Country Club, Justin Fraker of Gold Partner, Clear Creek/Club Car Vehicles, and Maron Towse, golf course superintendent at Schifferdecker Golf Course in Joplin, with a team score of 2,000. All team members received gift cards. Also receiving a gift card was Wyatt Cantrell, who is more reliable in his deliveries than the USPS, for Gold Partner GreensPro, who had the lowest score. I thought I heard he was going to use those winnings to put in a bowling lane in their warehouse so they could do some practicing next winter in order to prepare for our 2021 bowling meeting. I was finally able to get my pictures to download, check them out below.

Thanks to all those that attended, and make sure you are making plans for our March 26th meeting to be held at Lake Valley Golf Club. We have speaker Matt Giese discussing “Data Driven Decisions for Controlling Dollarspot”. GCSAA education points have been approved.

Clinton McKee, EM at Big Cedar Lodge, has completed the EMCP Level 1

Congratulations to Clinton and thank you to GCSAA for providing the resources to our Equipment Managers, allowing to improve their skills and being a valuable asset to their facilities. If any of our members Equipment Managers are interested in this program, please don’t hesitate to contact us or Diana Kern at GCSAA. GCSAA also provides educational opportunities for Assistant Superintendent members and Superintendent members. Visit their website to see all they have.

Press Release provided by GCSAA

“Yesterday, Clinton McKee became the first equipment manager member in all of Missouri to complete the Equipment Management Certificate Program Level 1.    I’ve provided the link to the information about the program.  He has achieved this by successfully passing eight exams covering key competency areas of:

• Cutting Units

• Drivetrains

• Electrical Systems

• Engine Technology

• Fundamentals of Turfgrass Operations

• Hydraulic Systems

• Metalworking and Fabrication

• Spray Systems

In addition to completing the EMCP Level 1, Clinton is also one of 5 winners of the Melrose Equipment Management Experience’s inaugural class.  It’s been a big year for Clinton.”

Partnership and membership renewals update

We would like to welcome back Kansas Golf and Turf as a Gold Partner this year for 2020. We also welcome new vendor member Rick Anderson from Toro in Minnesota. We also reel grinder extraordinaire Don Matthews who has renewed.

Eddie Roach Jr. golf course superintendent at Hickory Hills C.C. along with his assistants Zach Erb and Scott Hendrickson have renewed, as have golf course superintendent Jared Brewster and assistant Caleb Seidel, and we welcome intern Stephen Wilde who as joined as a student from Highland Springs C.C. Danny Endicott superintendent at Pointe Royale and his assistant Shane Coker, and Windmill Ridge superintendent Brian Bauer and assistant Darrell Easley have all renewed, Also renewing are Lukas Phillips from Branson Hills Golf Club, Chad Hoerschgen from Millwood Golf and Racquet Club, Mike Irvine from Bill and Payne Stewart, Dan Kersting at Rivercut, and Toby Burkhart have all renewed.

Thank you to all for supporting our association.

Speakers announced for March and April Ozark Turf Association Meetings

We would like to announce with our Education Partner, Syngenta, our speakers for our March and April meetings. Matt Giese, Syngenta Technical Representative, will be speaking at the March meeting to be held at Lake Valley Golf Club in Camdenton, MO. His topic is “Data Driven Decisions for Controlling Dollarspot”.

Our April speaker will be Bud White, of Bud White Golf Solutions. His topic will be “Long Range Planning and Managing Aging Infrastructure”. Our April meeting is going to be held at Fremont Country Club in Fremont Hills, MO.

The OTA has applied for GCSAA education points. Please check out the calendar page for more information.

Thanks!

Mel

Thanks Syngenta for being our Education Partner

Partnership and membership updates for 2/15/20

It was a busy week for partnership and membership renewals. We would like to thank Gold Partners GreensPro for renewing in 2020. We would also like to thank Silver Partners BASF for renewing in 2020. We welcome back this year SiteOne Golf as a Silver Partner. Thanks to all of our partners whose support allows us to keep meeting costs affordable to our members.

We would like to welcome Kolby Armbruster, the new golf course superintendent at Ledgestone Country Club. We also welcome back from a hiatus, Joshua Wells, who is the new assistant golf course superintendent at Horton Smith Golf Course.

We also thank returning members for renewing, Casey Koch, Golf Course Superintendent at Crestwood C.C. in Pittsburgh KS, John Ripperger, Assistant superintendent at Ledgestone, Jonathan Prange, golf course superintendent and his assistant, Tyler Scroggins, from Holiday Island in Eureka Arkansas, the team from Twin Hills C.C. in Joplin, Superintendent Kristopher Moore and his Assistant, Patrick Johnson, Superintendent Will Clark, from Eagle Creek Golf Club, Matt Overton Superintendent from Holiday Hills Resort and his assistant Ken Kempter, Superintendent Tye Heidbreder and Assistant Jay Butler from Twin Oaks C.C. and last and least, Melvin Waldron III, CGCS from Horton Smith G.C.

Thank you all for supporting the chapter.

Partnership and membership news

We would like to thank the following partners for renewing their plans: Gold Partners are Syngenta, Precision Turf Products, and Advance Turf Solutions. Silver Partners are Bayer and Midwest Turf.

Membership renewals are Charlie Boldreghini, Director of Agronomy at Old Kinderhook, Maron Towse, Superintendent at Shifferdecker Golf Course, Kevin Taylor, Superintendent at Whispering Oaks, and Bret Dulworth, Superintendent at Golf Club at Deer Chase.

We also would like to welcome new member Luke Derhake, Assistant Superintendent at Old Kinderhook.

Don’t forget to send your dues as soon as you can, GCSAA members will need to be paid by the first week of March to be included in our roster submission, and partners will need to be paid so we can put your logo on the meeting banner. Invoices and plans have been emailed, you can also find them on the website. If you need a specific invoice made out for your business office, just let me know and I can provide it however you need it.

We had a great showing of members down at the recent GIS show in Orlando, I counted 14 non vendor members, I also saw a handful of our partner vendors at the show as well. If you have any pictures you want to share, please send to me, I would love to use them in the next news story. I am already kicking myself for not getting a picture of Aaron Lorenz Superintendent at Top of The Rock, at the FMC booth earning money for our chapter, I heard he had one heck of a drive, the machine must have not been done counting the yardage from my drive yet?

Thanks for reading!

Mel

Announcing Syngenta as our Education Partner

We want to announce that Syngenta has become an education partner with the Ozark Turf Association for 2020. Syngenta was kind enough to gift the OTA extra money above their normal Gold Partnership, and we will use that money to help finance quality speakers for the year. We were already able to put some of that gift to use at our annual education day meeting.

We would like to thank Paul Carlson our Syngenta Representative and all our friends at Syngenta for supporting our most important mission, educating our membership. Please thank Paul the next time you see him.

New Updates!

We just wanted to give some updates, mainly to keep members informed, and but also to keep content fresh. We have seen a huge uptick on visits to the website, so we know it is becoming a valuable tool, we thank you for that.

• Class A and B GCSAA members, Melvin Waldron will be doing the voting for our chapter, if you have had a chance to watch the candidate videos on the GCSAA website and would like Mel to direct you vote to a certain candidate, he will certainly do that. He will be voting at the GCSAA Annual Meeting next Thursday, January 30th, at the Golf Industry Show in Orlando. Before Sunday you can email Mel at ozarkturfassn@yahoo.com. After Sunday Mel will have limited access to that account, but you can then email him at ballmark8989@yahoo.com or text him at 417-860-9449.

• Check out the calendar and also the classified sections of the website. We have dates and locations for meetings up through May. We also have the dates for the Border War meeting to be held in Kansas this year. We will have more details to follow, such as speakers, costs, formats, which all should follow soon. We did want to get dates announced as soon as possible, this way you can schedule your aerification and other projects around them. In the classifieds, we have position announcements and shop equipment listed.

• Before next week we will have invoices out for our 2020 dues, prepaid, and partner plans. Good news is, no increases, and very little changes. Biggest change is for Gold Partners where the partnership will cover up to 3 company members can attend each meeting at membership prices. Look for invoices in your email.

• For those members heading to Orlando for the GIS Show, hopefully you have down loaded the GIS App, you can set your schedules and find other OTA members who are attending the show. Also if you are there, swing by the Lebanon booth to vote on your favorite dog calendar pinup. This year it is August with Zelda, the boss over at Schifferdecker Golf Course, in charge of both Maron and Maura Towse, an excellent irrigation head checker. If Zelda gets the most votes, she will get $500 for more toys, our chapter will receive $3,000, and best of all a $2,000 donation will be made to a charity in Zelda’s honor. This is one election worth voting in!

• The new Board has met this past Tuesday, and we are looking at possibly having a couple of different meetings, maybe at a Cardinals game, or kids evening at the Betty Allison, or if the new “Big Shots” range (there is also something similar opening in Republic) opens, something we can attend with our families and/or wives. Other suggestions are welcome, we will post any new information once we have it.

• We have a goal this winter to provide news updates at least once a week, so check back often. If you have news you would like to share, please pass it along!

  Thanks for reading!

  Mel

Education/Annual Meeting a Success

We had a great turnout at our recent education/annual meeting day. We have 49 out of 54 who RSVP’d show up. Of course the day was a lot nicer weather wise then what was forecasted when we sent our last call notice out. Probably led to a couple of cancellations. It was the largest turnout I remember in my 16 years here.

We had some great speakers and great topics. The day started with John Daniels, our regional USGA agronomist, who spoke on the topic of Creating a Master Plan for the Golf Course.

Our second speaker was Dr. Erin Wehrman from Missouri State University, discussing Generational Differences in our workplaces.

Our third speaker was Dr. Mike Richardson of the University of Arkansas, where he discussed How Much Shade is too Much Shade.

Eddie Roach Jr. golf course superintendent at Hickory Hills Country Club informed the membership on the current status of the state of Missouri BMP Task Force who is working on producing Best Management Practices for golf courses in the state. GCSAA has given the group a $10,000 grant, and each of the Missouri chapters, (Heart, Mississippi Valley, and Ozark) are funding the rest of the efforts. The goal is to have it completed by the end of 2020.

We did get some great feedback from members about all of our speakers and topics.

The annual meeting was held after a buffet lunch provided by host Highland Springs Country Club. We covered current bank accounts and held elections. Mike Irvine from Bill and Payne Stewart Golf Course was elected President, Maron Towse from Schifferdecker Golf Course was elected Vice-President, Melvin Waldron III, CGCS from Horton Smith Golf Course was retained as Secretary/Treasurer, Jared Brewster from Highland Springs Country Club and Eddie Roach Jr. from Hickory Hills Country Club were both elected to the Board of Directors, replacing Maron Towse spot, and replacing the retiring Jim Pyle. Charlie Boldreghini continues to serve on the board with one year left in his term. Sam Richard moves to the Past President position after serving the maximum three years as President. We thank him for his dedication and service.

A big thank you goes out to Paul Carlson and Syngenta for being our educational partner. Their support is what allows us to bring in our speakers. Also thanks to our Gold and Silver Partners who provide support that allows us to keep our meeting costs low. Many thanks also to our vendors who attended this meeting. We had a great turnout of vendors as well.

The new board will be meeting later this week to discuss 2020 dues, prepaid meeting plans, and Vendor Partner plans. Check back here or in your email inboxes periodically for updates.

Thanks for attending and reading!

Mel

Christmas Party Fun - Hosted by "Samta Clause" Richart

After finally get pictures to download from the Christmas Party, I am now able to post some of those pictures and update everyone on the fun. I think my phone and computer had been hacked by some of those who were afraid of pictures finding their way on the internet?

First we would like to thank host Charlie Boldreghini and all the wonderful staff at Old Kinderhook who hosted the event. We were treated to a warm and inviting room, great views, good food and drink, and watched locals skate on the ice rink. I want to guess that Charlie is the only OTA member who has a Zamboni in his shop. Also for those that spent the night, I hope your night was as restful as mine. I was grateful that our dog Lucy wasn’t waking me up at the normal hour of 4 A.M.

We also want to thank all our Gold and Silver Partners whose support helps us put on these events. Gold Partners: Professional Turf Products, Precision Turf, GreensPro, VanWall Golf, Knox Fertilizer, Bayer, Clear Creek Vehicles, Club Car, BASF, and Syngenta. Our Silver Partners: BWI, Midwest Turf, Advanced Turf Products, and VGM.

Finally thanks go to Sam Richart who planned the fun and all our members and their better halves who attended. He provided some “minute to win it” style games, team captains were recruited and they picked their teams. The first game “This Blows” involved balloons and solo cups (empty), this game was won by “The Holly Jolley’s” Our second game “Hanky Panky” involved Kleenex, won by “The Jingle Junkies”, the third game involved empty solo cups again, “Moving on Up” won by “The Fruitcakes”, next up was “Cookie Face” won again by “The Fruitcakes”, next up was “Separation Anxiety” involving Skittles and cocktail cups, won again by “The Fruitcakes”, and finally, we played “Stack Attack” involving solo cups again (all the cups were always empty…what’s up with that?), which was won by team “The Sugar Plum Fairies”. The team of “The Special Snowflakes” were winless and had to dry their tears with the Kleenex from the “Hanky Panky’ game. All players even the “Special Snowflakes” walked away with gift card prizes. While “The Fruitcakes” cleaned up with an extra gift card. Jim Pyle was the team captain and picking his team I believe was the extent of his involvement. Jim picked Katie Armbruster, Cindy Waldron, Patti Ripperger, Connie Pyle, and John Ripperger. Obviously Jim being an elder stateman, and recently retired, used his wisdom to fill his team with turf wives. Poor John who ended up being the last pick, filled out the team, but he did play the pivotal part in “Cookie Face”. We hope everyone had a great time. Don’t forget to check out all the pictures, and there is rumor that Mark Slaughter has video taken during “Cookie Face”, unless someone with the initials of Jeff Sommerer has placed a big order for 2020 that includes the video? I know my wife is already looking forward to next year!

Thanks for reading!

Mel

Congratulations to Gavin Arnold!

Congratulations to Gavin Arnold, one of our student OTA members, and staff member at Rivercut Golf Course, City of Springfield-Greene County Park Board. He just graduated over the weekend from Missouri State with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Plant Sciences. We wish him well as he continues to gain experience in our industry! Best of luck in your future endeavors Gavin!

Photos Needed for Missouri Golf BMP Manual

The Missouri BMP Committee is looking for photos for the Missouri BMP manual. Photo ideas include: construction, erosion control, irrigation maintenance, buffer strips, collecting soil or water samples, cultural practices, IPM, Pollinator protection, habitat/wildlife, etc. Send photos to rkazmier@gmail.com

Thanks!

Best Management Practices Updates (BMP's)

At last month’s Chapter Delegates meeting, we were given an update on State BMP implementation and Facility Adoption. Mark Johnson, Associate Director, Environmental Programs gave an update on GCSAA’s goal of completed BMP’s in all 50 states by 2020. Mr. Johnson thanked the chapters that have been working diligently within their states to realize this goal. There are currently: 21 states with a BMP in place, 18 states have told GCSAA they will complete BMPs in 2019, with three states announcing since the Chapter Delegates Meeting, and, the remaining 11 states are on track to be complete by 2020. Missouri is part of that group to be completed by the end of 2020. The Missouri BMP Steering Committee has met once already. Members include Ozark Turf Association member Eddie Roach Jr. from Hickory Hills Country Club. Other members are Brent Stephenson and Spencer Roberts from The Heart Chapter, Matt Czamecki and Carter Demay from the Mississippi Valley Chapter, and Dr. Lee Miller from the University of Missouri. Dr. Rachael Owen of Horizon Soil Solutions will assist in developing the BMP guidelines with tools provided by GCSAA. GCSAA has templates that the BMP Committee will use, in turn once the State has implemented these guidelines, GCSAA members from Missouri will be able to use these templates to create BMP facility guidelines for our courses. Each chapter has agreed to contribute to the project, with the Ozark Turf Association Board approving a current payment of $1,020, out of our Scholarship and Research Fund. Future payments could be supplemented by the Ozark Turf Association getting involved with Rounds4Research. A $10,000 grant has also been secured from GCSAA. The PGA of America has graciously donated to help fund these grants. We will certainly keep our members updated as this process moves forward into next year.

Ozark Turf Association Member Makes National Spotlight (sort of)

Check out the November Pin up in the 2019 GCSAA/Lebanon Turf Dog Days calendar and you will find OTA resident, Ozark.

King of the sand pile mountain. Neighborhood barbecue grill inspector extraordinaire. This is Ozark, Jonathan Prange's Australian shepherd/Labrador retriever mix. Holiday Island CC's adorable pal.

Proud to see our area and chapter represented. Thanks Jonathan for entering Ozark!

Keep an eye open for future news…..The Ozark Association is full of beautiful turf dogs!

Thanks for reading!

Mel

Congratulations To Juan Barragan!

Congratulations to Juan Barragan, Golf Course Superintendent at Ozark National Golf Course at Big Cedar Lodge in Hollister/Ridgedale/Branson, for achieving GCSAA Class A membership status.

Please congratulate Juan next time you see him!

GCSAA Class A status is achieved by combining years as a golf course superintendent, and earning a certain number of educational points. Once a superintendent becomes a Class A member, they must continue to take numerus educational seminars and attend networking opportunities. The Ozark Turf Association, a GCSAA affiliated chapter strives to provide almost all education points needed to maintain Class A status.

For more information on what is needed to become a class A or to maintain class A status visit the following link:

https://www.gcsaa.org/about-gcsaa/membership/membership-classifications/class-a-membership

Ozark Turf Association Victorious Again - Border War Results

A great time was had by all! First we would like to thank our sponsors of the event. Title Sponsors were Kansas Golf and Turf, and Midwest Turf. Our Lunch Sponsor was Professional Turf Products. Our Dinner Sponsor was Syngenta. Our breakfast sponsor for day two was Precision Turf Products. Our prize sponsors were, Kansas Golf and Turf, Vanwall Equipment, and VGM. Their support greatly enhanced the event!

The Ozark Turf Association will be able to put their names on the trophy again, winning for the third time in a row. Thanks to Maron Towse and Aaron Borland for capturing the trophy this year as they dueled Shawn Spann and Andrew Huffman to the 9th hole in the Horse Race. They follow 2017 Ozark winners Mike Irvine and Ronnie Harman, and 2015 winners Barry Siems and Justin Beck.

Best ball winners were, in 1st Flight Shawn Spann and Andy Huffman with a 68, 2nd place, Kent Morgison and his chauffer, Richard Shumate with a 69, 3rd place with a 70, Maron Towse and Aaron Borland, and 4th winning on a match of cards with 71, was Matt Strong and Toby Burkhart. In 2nd Flight first, second and third were decided on a match of cards with those teams shooting 74’s, 1st place, using our host’s course knowledge, was won by Jim Pyle and Barry Siems, 2nd was won by Chris and Bigan, (we think it might be Bryan, which there were two of you), anyone who knows for sure let me know and we’ll get them their winnings. 3rd place was Mark Slaughter and Jeff Sommerer, and 4th with a 76, won on a match of cards, Braden Harbor and Kevin Shook. 3rd Flight was also decided by matching cards and was won by David Hunter and Jeff Aldrich with a score of 82. 2nd place also with an 82 was Mike Simon and Ryan Blew. Also with an 82, in third place was Charlie Thompson and Kevin Fateley. 4th place with an 84 and a match of cards was Casey Koch and Wyatt Burnett.

During the second day we played 4-man scrambles and paid 3 teams in 2 flights. The real winners of the day I believe were host Danny Endicott’s crew as residents off of # 8 were having a cook out for them.

Thanks again to our sponsors, and many thanks to our hosts Jim Pyle, John Ripperger and their crew at Ledgestone, Danny Endicott, Shane Coker and their crew at Pointe Royale. It was a memorable event to send off Jim Pyle as he heads to retirement later this year.

Congratulations To Our Champion!

Congratulations to our Ozark Turf Association Champion, Tom Russell, Superintendent from Triple Creek Golf Club, is the 2019 OTA Champion. He shot a 73 beating second place finisher, Scott Welsh from Professional Turf Products, who shot a 75. A couple of 76’s were shot by Maron Towse from Schifferdecker Golf Course, who beat Mike Irvine of Bill and Payne Stewart Golf Course on a match of cards. Tom is repeating as champion, winning last year at Millwood. The list of past champions of Clear Creek/Club Car sponsored OTA Championships also include 2017 winner Justin Beck, and 2016 winner, Scott Welsh.

First flight winner was our host, Adam Camp from Hidden Valley Golf Links, with an 80, followed by Jim Pyle from Ledgestone, with an 84.

We did have two threesome go out and play against each other in a scramble format, with the team of Darrell Easley of Windmill Ridge, John Ripperger of Ledgestone, and Wyatt Cantrell from GreensPro winning. We are looking to add this to future Championship events for those that might not want to play their own ball.

We did have 25 attend for lunch with 20 of us waiting out the rain, to challenge the course. Thanks to all that attended. Also thanks to Adam Camp and all the staff for preparing the course, cooking us lunch, and keeping the pro shop open so the winners could exchange their gift certificates.

Much thanks goes to Brian Cheever with Clear Creek Vehicles and Club Car for sponsoring this event, and to Mark Slaughter with GreensPro who sponsored the closest to the pin contests won by Darrell Easley and Mike Irvine.

We will see you next in Branson for our Border War event with the Kansas Chapter!

Congratulations to Steven Story

We would like to congratulate Steven Story, Assistant Golf Course Superintendent at Ozark National at Big Cedar Lodge for completing earlier this year his Golf Course Management Certificate from The Ohio State University, and also The Principles of Golf Course Agronomy (one of the components of the Assistant Superintendent Certificate Series) from GCSAA.

“Certificates like these help Assistants like myself promote and achieve key qualifications needed to reach the next levels in our careers.” “Organizations like the OTA and GCSAA create endless opportunities to learn, grow, and connect in this massive industry.”

GCSAA provides many opportunities for additional education through webinars, that we as superintendents, our assistants, and our equipment managers can take. GCSAA also provides documentation and programs to promote this additional education to our employers. We also strive to provide meaningful education at many of our monthly meetings and our annual education day that is combined with our annual meeting. (We are looking at dates in early January for our annual meeting and education day, once we finalize that date, we will let you know and put it on our calendar).

Congratulations again to Steve, and if anyone is interested in what is available out there, just ask and we will find out for you.

Thanks for reading!

Mel

September Meeting - Ozark Turf Association Championships

We are a month out from our next meeting, and thankfully we survived the past few weeks. This should give us plenty of time to get our courses prepared for our fall events, and allow for us to take some time off to attend this meeting/tournament. (And hopefully get some rust off our clubs prior to the event).

Just to let everyone know, the format for this tournament will be stroke play, with the lowest score winning. And for us that are a little more golfing challenged, there will be two flights with prizes.

We want to thank Adam Camp and Hidden Valley Golf Links for hosting this event.

We also want to thank Brian Cheever, Clear Creek Vehicles, and Club Car for sponsoring this event and providing this lovely trophy that I currently have sitting at my house, since that will be the only time I have a golf trophy here. Well except for that long drive one I won back in 1993 when I was younger and took advantage of some hard pan in the left rough, (where most of my drives would end up), and luckily rolling back into the fairway to claim the prize. Many thanks go to the days of single row irrigation for my win.

University of Missouri Field Day

While we did not have a lot of members attend, those that did were treated with updated research information, and had the opportunity to network. Two tour stops that really stood out, (well they all did, but) was Dr. Xi Xong’s billbug in zoysia presentation. While prior research concentrated on identifying the life cycle and the pest itself. This presentation dealt with control, with the best results by spraying insecticides at night when the billbug was active. Another option was to sweep the billbugs up, using a device that is used on artificial sports fields to help sweep up the crumb rubber. The other was some trail work Dr. Lee Miller had done with the just released fungicide Maxtima. It has shown some good results controlling dollarspot without the damage other DMI’s cause in the mid summer.

Thanks to the success of our Scholarship and Research outing, due to all of your support, we were also able to present a $1,000 check to help the University run the research farm. It was much appreciated.

While the date for the next field day is not set yet, rest assured it will take place in 2021.

Also as a reminder, if you have a college attendee either in family or on your crew, don’t forget to submit a scholarship application!

Thanks!

Mel