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Even in Hard Times, the Men and
Women of the IUPAT Help Those in Need
Members of District Council 3/Local Union 9 in
Raytown, Missouri, are very active in local charity
work and make certain the men and women of the
IUPAT take care of their communities. Children in the Lee
Summit school district benefited from their generosity last
December as members went all out to support Toys for Tots.
Neal Zentz (center), president of DC 3/LU 9 and a painting instructor for
the district, presents a check to Linda Thompson (left), director of the
Transportation Department for the Lee’s Summit school district, to support
the district’s Toys for Tots campaign last December. Marine Corps
Reservist Mike Mosley (right) represents Toys for Tots.
50 YEARS OF SERVICE HONOR FOR DISTRICT COUNCIL 3 MEMBER
District Council 3 (Missouri) Business Manager/Secretary-Treasurer Mike
Williams and fellow members recently honored Charles Foland for 50 years of
service to the IUPAT. Brother Foland has been heavily involved with our union
on both the international and local levels during his career so far. His fellow
members all look forward to working with him more in the years to come.
Congratulations!
HONORS FOR DISTRICT COUNCIL 4 LOCAL LEADERS
District Council 4 (Buffalo, NY) honored two long-time members for their many contributions to the IUPAT recently: Larry Rizzo,
who served as president of LU 43 for 22 years, and Jim Billings III, who served as LU 43 treasurer for 16 years.
Frank Vella and Howard Reuse, both of Local Union 112, were also honored for numerous years as local union officers.
DC 4 Business Manager/Secretary Treasurer Dan Boody
presents appreciation award plaques to Larry Rizzo (left) and
Jim Billings III (right), both of LU 43.
District Council 4 Regional Business Representative Mark
Stevens (in sweater and black jacket) presents officer
appreciation award plaques to Frank Vella (left) and Howard
Reuse (right), both of LU 112.
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District Council 5 Announces Scholarship Winners
Chase Huntley and Jessica Melton are this year’s
winners of the IUPAT District Council 5
(Washington/Oregon) S. Frank “Bud” Raftery
Scholarship. Each has earned $2,000 to put toward their
college education.
Huntley is the son of Bill Huntley, a recent retiree and
soft-floor layer with Local Union 1236 (Portland, Oregon),
and a 2009 graduate of Reynolds High School in
Troutdale, Oregon. While there, he also attended the
Center for Advanced Learning in Gresham, Oregon, where
he took pre-engineering courses. He has been accepted at
Oregon State University, where he will major in engineering.
His goal is to be an environmental engineer.
Melton, a 2007 graduate of Montesano Junior/Senior
High School in Montesano, Washington, begins her junior
year at Central Washington University next fall, and will
major in both anthropology and history. Last year, she
received an “Outstanding Leadership Pin” from the
National Residence Hall Honorary in recognition of her
leadership, community service and scholastics. She is the
daughter of DC 5/LU 1964 member Chris Melton.
IUPAT District Council 5 congratulates and wishes its
scholarship winners the best of luck in their academic
careers.
District Council
5 Business
Representative
Dave Winkler
with
scholarship
winner Chase
Huntley.
LU 1964
member
and proud
mother
Chris
Melton,
Jessica
Melton,
and DC 5
Field
Representa
tive Ron
Eastburn.
Left to right: Assistant DC 5 Servicing Director Bud Bartunek, LU 10
Financial Secretary Terry Peterson, DC5 Business Representative
Tim Carrier, LU 10 President Bob Potter, scholarship winner
Herschel Slaughter, and Charlie Slaughter, the very proud father.
Herschel Slaughter is the 2009 Western Region
winner of the A.L. Mike Monroe and Ralph D.
Williams III Sports Scholarship. He graduated
from Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, in
2007 and is now attending Texas Southern University,
where he is majoring in marketing and is a standout
basketball player for the TSU Tigers. He is currently
working as an intern with NIKE and some of his work
already has been used in the company’s advertising. He
plans to continue to work for Nike after his graduation
in 2011. Slaughter is the son of long-standing Local
Union 10 member Charlie Slaughter, who retired from
the Portland Public School District in July 2009. District
Council 5 and members of Local Union 10 thank
Charlie for all his years of service and congratulate
Herschel on receiving the $5,000 scholarship.
For information on these scholarships, go to
www.iupat.org/about/scholarships.html.
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District Council 7 Looks Forward
to Offering Training Center in Wisconsin
District Council 7 (Wisconsin) expects its new training center
facility to be up and running, ready to accommodate training
for all of IUPAT crafts, in early 2010.
“For the painters, we installed a sandblast booth and a spray booth
in mid-December. For the drywall finishers, a 60-foot-long drywall
mockup is currently underway,” said Adam Holmes, director of training.
“The glaziers will be working with a state-of-the-art mockup and
new tools obtained through local merchants. A new compressor system
was installed that not only powers the sandblast equipment, but will
also be used in the future to train all members on safe and skilled
power-tool usage.”
All of the equipment was paid for by grants from the IUPAT Finishing
Trades Institute and the state.
STATE GRANT MONEY SAVES IUPAT WORK IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN
When members of District Council
26/Local Union 1011 in Escanaba,
Michigan, were faced with losing a
substantial amount of work if they did not
receive SSPC C-14 certification in industrial
painting, DC 26 Business Representative Jim
Anderson went to work on finding public
funding to get the job done.
With the assistance of the IUPAT Finishing
Trades Institute (FTI) and the Painters and
Allied Trades LMCI, Anderson contacted the
Michigan Workforce Development office and
formally requested a grant to provide the
needed training through the Workforce
Investment Act. After steering through the
bureaucratic waters of state government, DC
26 obtained a $13,250 grant and was able
to conduct the necessary training. Nearly 20
DC 26 members remain on the job thanks to
this innovative thinking by local leadership.
Are you a leader interested in doing the
same? The International stands ready to
assist you. Contact the Government Affairs
Department, LMCI or FTI for more
information.
Duane Waters (left) and Steve Olsen of District Council 26/Local Union 1011
look over some training equipment as they prepare for an SSPC C-14 training
class made possible by state grant money.
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STAR Rewards Safe Work in California
District Council 36/Local
Union 636’s inaugural Safety
Training Awards Recognition
(STAR) event was a huge success.
STAR, created by the Painters and
Allied Trades LMCI more than five
years ago to promote a “culture of
safety” on the job site, rewards union
members with a range of prizes if
they meet the criteria for safety on the
job site and participation in advanced
safety classes.
More than 200 members of Local
Union 636 and their families
enjoyed a perfect day at Santa
Anita Park in Southern California,
with a raffle, food, fun activities and
horse-racing. Congratulations to
Sean Suarez, grand-prize winner of
a 2009 Chevy Silverado truck.
Congratulations also go to the 20
other raffle winners, who had their
choices of a 52-inch HD TV, laptop
computer or barbeque grill. Every
qualifying member in attendance
also received a $100 gift card from
Sears.
District Council 36 and Local
Union 636 are committed to safety on
the job, and the number of qualifying
members at the first DC 36/LU 636
STAR event is a testament to the members’
commitment as well,” said Grant
Mitchell, business manager/secretarytreasurer
of District Council 36.
DC 36 members and their families enjoying the inaugural STAR event include (left to
right): Glazier Business Representative Rene Real, Glazier Apprenticeship Coordinator Ed
Garcia, Glazier Business Representative Steve Becerra, DC 36 Business Manager/
Secretary-Treasurer Grant Mitchell, STAR grand prize winner Sean Suarez, Southern
California Glass Management Association Representative Terry Mayfield, Glazier
Business Representative Mark Bartlett and Glazier Business Representative Sam Alvarez.
DISTRICT COUNCIL 46 PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
Members of DC 46 are reaping the benefit of
membership as the IUPAT goes to bat to help them stay in
business in face of changing government guidelines. The
government of Ontario is pressing forward with the
Colleges of Trades and compulsory certification of the
construction trades in Ontario. All apprentices and
journeypersons are strongly advised to obtain their
Certificates of Qualification as soon as possible.
Several Local Union 1795 apprentices have obtained
their Certificates of Qualification in the last few months.
Anyone needing help with this process can contact the local
union. It’s now or never—let’s be ready to work!
George McMenemy
(left), business
representative for
District Council 46
(Toronto), presents
glazier Mark Whalen
of Local Union 1795
with his Inukshuk and
his check for obtaining
his Certificate of
Qualification as a
glazier and metal
technician after the
successful completion
of his apprenticeship.
Whalen is an employee
of City Window &
Glass of Hamilton.
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District Councils 50 and 57 Celebrate Apprentice Graduations
District councils 50 (Hawaii)
and 57 (Pittsburgh, PA)
recently celebrated apprentice
graduations.
Painters District Council
50/Glaziers, Architectural Metal, &
Glassworkers Local Union 1889 saw
35 apprentices graduate at a
December 2009 event in the Lanai
Ballroom of Dole Cannery in Honolulu.
Every graduate fulfilled the criteria of
eight semesters or a minimum of 580
classroom hours and also completed
working 10,000 apprenticeship hours.
IUPAT District Council 50 congratulates
these outstanding members and
wishes them all the best in the coming
years.
Graduates of the class of 2009 are: Wendall Tavares, Michael Rita, Harry Shimizu (Kona), Richard Tacgere, Jr., Ted Gaton, Jonathan
Lenchanko, Michael Rojas, Brant Arelliano, Scott Nitta, Neal Wakabayashi, Dexter Ching, Walter Nunuha, Ikaika Lacson, John Atiburcio,
Bronson Adric (Maui), Douglas Gonzaga (Maui), Nathan Nakamura (Maui), Sean Cordero, Anthony Oliveira, Shane Sunahara, Bradley
Gackstetter, Brandon Shito, Stephen Dele Cruz, Larry Tolentino (Kona), Angel Pascual, Joseph Dela Cruz, Jonah Nunuha, James Agana,
Keoki Galton, Jerry Hanawahine, Jerry De Peralta and Darryl Ohelo. Not shown are John Perez Doi, Lance Kaui and Chester Popa.
District Council 57 (Pittsburgh)
congratulates all of its
apprentices, with special
recognition to Sean
DeLaney and Paul Matisz for
being named Painting
Apprentice of the
Year and Drywall Finishing
Apprentice of the Year,
respectively.
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Local and International IUPAT Leadership Celebrate
Decatur Trades & Labor Assembly’s 50th Anniversary
L
a s t D e c e m b e r , G e n e r a l
President James Williams was
the keynote speaker for a
crowd of 360 union men and women
in Decatur, Illinois, who gathered to
celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the
local Trades & Labor assembly. He
was joined by IUPAT Executive
General Vice President Kenneth
Rigmaiden and other representatives
of the International, as well as the
leadership team of IUPAT District
Council 58 in Southern Illinois.
Celebrating 50 years of brotherhood are (left to right): IUPAT General Vice President
Kenneth E. Rigmaiden, IUPAT General President James A. Williams, DC 58 Business
Representative and Decatur Trades & Labor President Bill Francisco, DC 58 Business
Manager/Secretary Treasurer Gregg Smith, LU 288 President Danny Manning, and LU
288 Recording Secretary Jason Keller.
DISTRICT COUNCIL 77 TAKES CARE OF THOSE WHO SERVE OUR COMMUNITIES
Members and apprentices of DC 77/ LU 1756 of New Ellenton, South Carolina, recently did their part to renovate the nearby New
Ellenton Volunteer Department Training Center. The young men and women of the IUPAT came through for these valued volunteers
to make sure their facility maintained a shine.
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DISTRICT COUNCIL 81 HONORS 50-YEAR MEMBER
The leadership and members of
District Council 81 (Iowa, Nebraska,
Western Illinois) declared December
12, 2009, as Eugene Rome Day in
honor of Brother Rome’s 50 years of
service to his local union, his district
council, and his state and local
building trades. Rome has served as
both delegate and trustee to Local
Union 676 in Rock Island, Illinois,
and continues to serve as secretarytreasurer
of the Iowa State Building
Trades Council. Congratulations and
thank you for your years of dedicated
service!
Celebrating Eugene Rome’s service to his union (left to right) are: DC 81 President
Mark Myers, honoree Eugene Rome and DC 81 Business Manager/Secretary-
Treasurer Deb Groene.
Also recently honored for 50
years of service was Brother Vic
Machir of Local Union 246. He
began his painting career when he
was just 16 years old and went on to
become a signatory contractor of the
IUPAT.
Congratulations and thank you for
your years of dedicated service!
Celebrating 50 years of IUPAT service are (left to right): LU 246 Business
Representative Robert Gilmore, Brother Vic Machir and BM/ST Deb Groene.
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CONSUMER ADVICE—from a source
you can trust.
Hitting the Books Instead
of the Walls in Texas
District Council 88 (Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas) drywall apprentices
(left to right) Sergio Nevarez, Jorge Campos, Luis Hidalgo, Jesus
Gurrola, and Jorge Carbollosa take a break from their hands-on training
to spend some time with the books.
UTAH MEMBERS PATCH THINGS UP FOR LOCAL RED CROSS
When the Great Salt Lake Chapter of the Red Cross began preparing for its
move to a bigger and better location, it first had to make sure the space it was
leaving was in top condition. That required, among other things, patching and
repairing the wall space. Always on the lookout to help their community, a
group of apprentices from the IUPAT Local Union 77 Painting and Drywall
Program volunteered to get the job done for the Red Cross.
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LU 77 members who helped their local Red Cross are (standing, left to right):
Business Manager William Hayden, Dennis Navarrete, Jeremy Kidman, Lauren
Harman, Adam Lapic, Francisco Moreno, Drywall Instructor Brandt Goble,
Apprenticeship Coordinator & Painting Instructor Tim Wilburn; (kneeling, left to
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