• Mission: Life, Liberty and Hope

    • Dave Dondoneau

    The Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County, a beacon of light for at-risk youth since 1965, as well as its building and trades program, is putting alums to work. For the past six decades, the nonprofit has been in the business of building lives—molding youth in body, mind and spirit into figurative brick and mortar as servant leaders, good family-oriented men and women and, in the parlance of an earlier day, “men better fitted for the responsibilities of citizenship.”   read more...

  • One Long Magic Carpet Ride

    • Dave Dondoneau

    Tucson Commercial Carpet, Inc. will spend part of 2022 basking in a well-earned commemoration of the company’s golden anniversary, a magic carpet ride through 50 years of a labor of love. The rest of the year will be spent as all the others are, in service to its clients and positioning the firm for the next 50 years. They’re confident there will be a 100th birthday party. The formal anniversary in November 2022 marks the official date the company was established under Richard St. Aubin and George Moffat. The founders then incorporated in 1974. Sadly and unexpectedly, Moffat died in 1998.   read more...

  • Diversity & Determination

    • Dave Dondoneau

    The recently completed The Ledge Amphitheater of Waite Park, Minnesota, is a point of pride for the management group of Voss Plumbing & Heating of Paynesville, Inc. (Voss). It’s more than mere coincidence that the company was up to its ears in the construction of the $26 million facility, which will host the most popular of America’s pop culture, past and present.   read more...

  • Building a Life in America

    • Dave Dondoneau

    In 1991, Henryk Pach packed up all his hopes and dreams, as well as a recipe for success passed down from his father. He left his native Poland for the shores of the Land of Opportunity.   read more...

  • The Midas Touch

    • Dave Dondoneau

    In Greek mythology, King Midas is remembered for his power to turn everything he touched into gold. In time, English speakers adopted the idiom the “Midas touch” to refer to people who have a seemingly uncanny ability to turn every venture into a success.   read more...

  • Work Ethic & Service Meet the Road

    • Tonie Auer

    Looking for a way to pay for college, Nick Whitehurst and his twin brother, Dave borrowed $9,000 from their folks and bought True North Asphalt (True North) when they were only 19. The duo went to Michigan State University (MSU) by day and sold driveway repair and replacement services door to door by night.   read more...

  • Economical, Eco-Friendly and Eye-Popping

    • Judy Levene

    Dave Stratton had spent 10 years in project management with Fortune 500 information technology and logistics companies—and he was ready for a major career change. After the dot-com crash, he invested in a laid-off coworker with previous experience in pool design and founded Pacific Decorative Concrete, Inc. (PDCI) in 2002. Working from his garage in Antelope, California, they began by refreshing pool decks during remodels for several pool service companies.   read more...

  • The Midas Touch

    • Dave Dondoneau

    In Greek mythology, King Midas is remembered for his power to turn everything he touched into gold. In time, English speakers adopted the idiom the “Midas touch” to refer to people who have a seemingly uncanny ability to turn every venture into a success.   read more...

  • Building Dreams One Beam At a Time

    • Dave Dondoneau

    Some time ago in what probably seems like a galaxy far, far away, two teenage students sat in a classroom fostering an appreciation—presumably—for Beowulf or The Great Gatsby or whatever appeared in those days on a reading list in an English class for high school upperclassmen in Texas.   read more...

  • Taking Safety to New Heights

    • Nancy Lovell

    It was August 2020…8:30 on a Friday night. Dave Brocious, Managing Partner of Sky Point Crane, was on vacation with his family at a lake house in New York. Sky Point Crane is an all-purpose crane and rigging company out of Indiana, Pennsylvania. The caller was one of their customers, a contractor for a large utility company.   read more...

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