I would like to invite your participation in our Section by contributing articles for the next issue of the ACR Consumer Section Newsletter.  The Consumer Section Newsletter is published quarterly in an effort to meet the specific needs and requirements of its members and to share timely information about section activities and philosophies. 

     Section members and non-members are invited to share letters of particular issues or concerns they may have endured in the field in our interactive “sound off” segment.  Opinion pieces, professional observations, upcoming events, and other relevant material are also important items of interest for the newsletter. 

     We are now accepting information  to keep our members informed about ACR news and programs relating to our Section’s members.  Therefore, we ask that you forward information relating to meetings, conferences, special events, trainings, regulatory matters to the ACR Consumer Section Newsletter Editor to be included on the new “Events Calendar” of our Section’s new web site

     Deadlines for submittal are 45 days before publication. (Next date: April15,2006)  Please send your comments, suggestions, and articles relating to Consumer ADR and Section activities to Walt Bitler, wabitl@aol.com  

     I look forward to working with you to provide an informative and interesting Consumer Section Newsletter and a new web site