"The Smokey Pig" Catering April IEEE Richmond Section Meeting

The famous The Smokey Pig restaurant in Ashland, VA will be catering the dinner for the IEEE Richmond Section Meeting on 6 April 2006. Join us at the Media General Atlee Station Printing Plant for dinner and a tour. Register on-line at www.ieee.org/richmond. The Smokey Pig will be providing Chopped Pork BBQ and Baby Back Ribs.

6 April 2006 Plant Tour...Media General - Richmond-Times Dispatch Printing Plant

Like to see motor-drives running three-story-high printing presses? Semi-autonomous robots moving rolls of paper each the weight of an automobile? How about printing-plate production remotely from the downtown editorial offices? Want to see every kind of conveyor you can think of in one location? A substantial electric power plant? It’s all there and you’ll see a lot of it in operation. Join the IEEE Richmond Section at the Media General Atlee Station printing plant in Hanover County, north of Richmond off U S 301, for dinner, a plant tour, and discussion with their knowledgeable staff.

Tour: Media General staff leads us through the plant from the railroad siding where the paper arrives to the packaging and distribution doors where the papers go to the delivery trucks.

RSVP & Deadline: By high-noon on Friday, March 31. Use the on-line RVSP at http://www.ieeerichmond.org/.
Tell us the following:
1. Your phone number
2. Meal or just the program
3. Student or not

Meeting
Time: Social 5:30 to 6:15, Dinner 6:15 to 7:00, Business Meeting 7:00 to 7:15, Program 7:15 to 8:15, Board Meeting 8:30 to 9:45
Where: Media General Atlee Station printing plant off U S 301 in Hanover County.
Cost: $20 by the RSVP deadline, $25 after the deadline. Student members get in for $10 before or $13 after the deadline.
Menu: Something we’re catering in; still a mystery.
Payment: By check or cash, during the Social time.
Getting There:It’s north of Richmond in Hanover County near the confluence of U S 301 North and I 295 East. You can’t see the plant from either 301 or I 295, so as you head north on 301, look for the fast-food burger place on the right (east). As you approachit, look sharp for Times-Dispatch Blvd. You turn in there (head east). Drive down that road and you’ll see on the left the parking lots and the building shown above.

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The IEEE Richmond Section Blog was highlighted on the "IEEE Spectrum Online" Tech Talk Blog today. We are honored to have our blog mentioned by Susan Hassler, IEEE Spectrum's Editor-in-Chief. It appears that the blog by the IEEE Richmond Section is the first at the IEEE Section or Chapter level. What do you think? If you are aware of other Sections or Chapters that have a blog to serve their members, please let us know.

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