Our Fifth Annual Past President’s Dinner and Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship Award was another awesome evening of history and celebration for the Sierra Chapter. On February 17th, your illustrious past presidents were joined by an assortment of members and guests including our Guest Speaker, David Lichtman, publisher of the Sacramento Business Journal.

Dave did an outstanding job of explaining the inner workings of the Business Journal and what drives their paper. Sacramento area readers tend to be highly educated senior managers who need access to local business news that is timely and unbiased. The Business Journal is part of a nationwide network that covers business news in practically every major metropolitan region of the US. Over 95% of their articles are generated by local writers (compared to 30%

Also joining us this evening was the fifth winner of the annual Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship, Jasmeen Chahal.

She is a senior civil engineering student at Sac State focusing on transportation engineering. Jasmeen was joined by her mother, Sal. Jasmeen recently went to work for Dokken and was very excited to win this years scholarship. The scholarship was created in honor of Tim Fleming, who was a Past President of the Sierra Chapter, and a tremendous supporter of our industry.

Finally, Past Presidents joined us from all era’s including ACEC-CA, CELSOC and WAELS.  After dinner, we gathered for the ritual “Past President’s Photo” see below. Thanks again to all the Past Presidents, David Lichtman, and Jasmeen Chahal for making this a very memorable evening.