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NESPA’s Design Awards Competition deadline is October 14th. As you plan to submit your best pools, spas and water features to the competition, here are 10 top tips on taking great pool and spa photos.

Ever complained about local government or organizations and the way things are run? Now is your chance to help NESPA and the pool and spa industry run things the right way by volunteering to take part in NESPA’s Congress of Committees coming up October 23rd.

With the Winterizing courses at NESPA and the Chapters now wrapping up, one of the key takeaways offered was a Winterization Vehicle Checklist. Vehicle Checklists are highly customizable to fit the particular company, but what is important is to use a checklist each time you ready a vehicle for the road so that you will have everything you need to efficiently close the pool. Here is a checklist from the NESPA program on items to include in the truck.

The pool and spa industry has always been a complex business, but today, keeping up with technological change and innovation can be positively challenging. That’s why it is important to continually check the notices from your local chapter and to click on the NESPA website to read the Upcoming Events area on the homepage for important upcoming programs that you can profit from.

Assembling the right workforce for the new season is always a challenge for the pool and spa industry because of its seasonality in the Northeast. But here are 16 actions you can take this month and next to strongly encourage your best people to return for the 2020 season. These ideas were drawn from NESPA’s continuing series on workforce development that can be found in past issues of The Edge magazine.

As my tenure as President of The Northeast Spa & Pool Association (NESPA) comes to an end, I cannot help but think that building NESPA and helping to strengthen the pool and spa industry here in the Northeast is truly a work in progress – but it is a structure that is being built on a strong foundation.