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LAS VEGAS – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and the Entertainment Services and Technology Association (ESTA) have agreed on a joint copyright that will allow a second edition of The Event Safety Guide to be developed as an American National Standard (ANS). To take on the project, a new working group is being created within ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP) called the Event Safety Working Group (ESWG). Leading the new group will be co-chairs Dr. Donald Cooper, Executive Director of the ESA, and Richard Nix, Special Project Manager for ZFX, Inc.

NASHVILLE – For Toby Keith’s “Interstates & Tailgates” tour, which includes more stops at festivals and fairs this year along with standard amphitheater dates, LD Seth Jackson worked with Bandit Lites on a gear package that includes a lighting pod approach that could easily scale up or down with the needs of each tour stop. The trek runs through mid-October.

LOWELL, MA – In 1975, Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio held a gathering for young worshippers.  The organizers of that event could scarcely have imagined that there would one day be 40 Steubenville Youth Conferences in 11 states. Nor could they have envisioned the kind of dynamic and richly textured stage presentation that engaged thousands of young people at Steubenville East, which was held recently at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Tsongas Center.

BURBANK, CA — Kenneth (Ken or Kenny) Stein, a veteran stage manager for major beauty pageants, awards shows and TV programs and specials, died Sept. 8, 2016. He was 74.

OMAHA, NE – To transform retail space in Omaha’s Millard neighborhood into a worship environment, CCI Solutions relied on fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Duke DeJong, vice president of systems integration at CCI Solutions, noted that  Chauvet’s Ovation, Rogue and COLORdash fixtures helped transform the former Wonder Bread outlet store and Hallmark gift shop into a satellite location for StoneBridge Christian Church.