{"id":769,"date":"2025-11-19T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/centralvalley\/?p=769"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:29:40","slug":"%f0%9f%93%a3join-us-12-1-for-december-section-meeting%f0%9f%8e%85%f0%9f%8f%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/centralvalley\/2025\/11\/19\/%f0%9f%93%a3join-us-12-1-for-december-section-meeting%f0%9f%8e%85%f0%9f%8f%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udce3Join Us 12\/1 for December Section Meeting\ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Come join us in Tulare, CA! College of the Sequoias Building A&nbsp;will be hosting our Section&#8217;s Meeting&nbsp;on<strong>&nbsp;December 1st&nbsp;at 5:30 PM PST.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard L. Holdren was elected to serve as President after serving three years as Vice President. He is a senior welding engineer at ARC Specialties Technical Services, president\/principal welding engineer at Welding Consultants LLC, and owner of Holdren Engineering LLC. He has served over 40 years as an AWS member and chair of numerous AWS certification, education, and technical committees. He also served as director-at-large. He is an AWS Counselor, Life Member, Senior CWI (SCWI), and Certified Welding Engineer (CWEng). Please join us as we welcome the current AWS President and hear from his experiences, mentorship, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RSVP: Scan QR code or visit the link to RSVP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aws-december-meeting.eventbrite.com\">https:\/\/aws-december-meeting.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Location: College of the Sequoias Building \u201cA\u201d &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>4999 E. 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