By Kent Dagg,
CEO Shasta Builders Exchange
9/1/2010
Jerry Wagar of Ochoa & Shehan Builders Inc. has been working overtime as the project general for the Northern California Veterans Cemetery Chapel. This volunteer project sponsored by the Shasta Builders’ Exchange and former Senator Maurice Johannasen has gained momentum as workers start on the stucco work.
Of interest is the collective support that comes from each trade working together so that the effort doesn’t fall completely on one company. A good example of that is the stucco work. Three companies are pulling together Frank Acosta Plastering, Steven Woodlief Plastering and F.C. Bickert Co. On their heels is HVAC. Ed Harrison of Timberline Heating and Air Conditioning Inc. is spearheading that trade and has gotten help from a number of competitors including Dennis’ Heating and Air Conditioning Inc.
Harbert Roofing has already prepped the roof and will be putting metal flashing up in the very near future.
It just goes to show that the construction industry is capable of just about anything. I don’t think I will even get over the unbelievable “can-do” attitude I always seem to see when something has to get done.
When Don Gallino told me in 1987, the year I started with the Exchange, “Welcome to an honorable profession.” He was right and today, and with this project, I couldn’t agree more.
