News & Views

• Cleaners can help keep it flying
• Home drycleaning market appears to be drying up
• Texas court overturns judgment against Street's
• IFI organizes support for Olympics
• Drycleaners accounted for third of Clean show crowd
• An interview with Dr. Paul Dugard
• Clean Canada trade show moves to larger exhibit hall
• Annual conference plans set for Ontario association
• EDITORIAL: How cleaners can do their part
• EDITORIAL: Be your own drycleaner? No thanks!
• How mom and pop are getting along
• Our new Day of Infamy: Can any good ever come of it?
• Are you hitting the target or just wasting your money
• New rules for retirement benefits

Around the US

• PDCA denounces results of PennPIRG gender pricing study
• Delaware cleaners invited to free seminar at DNR

• INDLA's fall seminar scheduled for Oct. 12-14
• MILD announces officers and directors at annual meeting
• WSLA releases plans for Fall convention

• Registration deadline nears for NCA's TexCare 2001
• Massachusetts cleaners give back to community

• SDA offers courses in November
• Exemptions postponed for Texas drycleaners

• Variety of drycleaning topics planned for SEFA seminars

• AQMD perc phase-out plan meets resistance
• 41 drycleaners recognized by EnviroStar
• SDDCA to host CARB class

Columns

• Stan Caplan: Assembly line quality for TQM
• Ray Colucci: Ten ways to make business better
• Don Desrosiers: Pads and covers: Some hard facts
• Dan Eisen: How to avoid hairy problems
• Stan Golomb: It's education, not motivation
• Frank Kollman: Overtime pay rules ­ who's exempt?
• Frank Lucenta: Know your suedes and leathers
• Dennis McCrory: Don't shoot the horse in the race
• Alan Robson: What business can do to help

People

• Cleaners Depot hires Kelly
• Eisen offering garment analysis
• Street's scholarships awarded
• Hurst honors distributors

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