Dr. Phil Herein, left, and Mike Fresvik
The Minnesota Pest Administration Affiliation (MPMA) reviews the current lack of two essential native figures: Dr. Phil Harein and Mike Fresvik.
Dr. Harein, aged 94, died July 22. He was professor emeritus in entomology on the College of Minnesota. Donations in his reminiscence could also be despatched to both St. Jude Kids’s Analysis Hospital or St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtommedi, Minn.
“Dr. Harein was very educated about pest management and particularly saved product pests, serving to meals processors within the Midwest and the pest management trade in Minnesota for a few years,” Todd Leyse, co-owner of Adam’s Pest Management, Medina, Minn., informed Pest Administration Skilled (PMP) journal. Leyse additionally serves because the MPMA’s State Coverage Affairs Consultant (SPAR) for the Nationwide Pest Administration Affiliation (NPMA). “He did analysis and willingly shared his information far and huge, together with planning Minnesota’s two-day recertification convention for many years.”
Fresvik, aged 78, died July 18. He labored for the Minnesota Division of Agriculture in soil well being and pesticide regulation earlier than retiring in 2003 and turning into the MPMA’s secretary/treasurer part-time. He additionally was a longtime treasurer of the American Affiliation of Pesticide Management Officers (AAPCO). Donations in his reminiscence could also be despatched to both to Group of Grace Lutheran Church, White Bear Lake, Minn., or the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), for which his father-in-law was on the nationwide board of administrators.
“Mike was one of many nicest individuals you may ever meet,” Leyse tells PMP. “He beloved fishing and spending time along with his grandchildren, and he shall be missed by his spouse of practically 52 years, Sharon, and everybody within the Minnesota Pest Administration Affiliation and trade.”
The PMP journal employees provides its condolences to each gents’s households, associates and colleagues.
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