processes and the handling of Pierce’s largest workforce which can be challenging enough. Volume did not drop as predicted. Stu Hasman (ICP) is trying hard to keep costs down and replace some lost business. Mark Tavarez (Vegas GM) has been working on some new projects with our new SW Business Manager, Steve Sabicer, Andy and Dino. It is never too early to prepare for ConExpo-Con/Agg Show in March of 2014. Andy and Tim head our team to make sure that our booth location is good and that we have everything we need in order to make this show work for us. We will in-troduce our old booth with some changes this year made by Andy & Tim. Team mem-bers that will be working so far are Dino McNabb, John Mullin, John Bednar, Stu Hasman, Steve Sabicer (NW Business Mgr), Bill Mitchell (NE Busi-ness Mgr) Tim, Andy and me. Jason will help set up and spend a couple days reviewing other booths. We may add other team members. I would like to congratulate everyone with birthdays and anniversaries in Septem-ber. Those with milestone an-niversaries are Larry Sindelar (Belvidere East) 5th Anniver-sary and Jorge Perez (Rockford) 20th Anniversary.

Well, August is upon us, school starts again and the pro, college and high school football season be-gins. Out in Seattle, they are excited about their Seahawks being rated the best team in the NFL, led by their University of Wis-consin quarterback, Rus-sell Wilson. He is the first Seahawk to ever make the cover of GQ Magazine. As a Packer fan, I will get to-gether with the local Sea-hawks to watch the Seat-tle/Green Bay exhibition game on Friday. It could be rough as I will wear the Green & Gold. This summer has been very busy and has passed by way too fast. On a per-sonal level, I definitely had some challenges to over-come but all is well now. Our Business Managers, Andy Oltremari and Tim Charles have been work-ing on many new projects with Dino McNabb (COO), John Mullin (VP), Tony Chiodini (CFO), John Bed-nar (Executive Mgr), and Jason Smith (Director of IT). One of those projects was the contract signed with Mahindra that will lead to another Pierce fa-cility in Houston, Texas. We have worked long and hard on these types of deals. It has been Andy for a while, and Dino longer, going back to the previous Business Manager. Now

the hard work begins as we move forward reorganizing the operation and hiring on new associates. Some of these positions will be posted in other plants. We may even ask others from Pierce plants to help us set this up. I would like to thank all the Pierce people that worked on this as well as Mahindra for having the confidence in Pierce to choose us as their partner. We will bring this new op-eration up to “Best in Class” very soon. Our Rockford plant sales seem to be getting better but the plant still needs more work. I know that Larry Hickey (Rockford GM), John Mullin, Tim Charles and Judy Spitson (Marketing Operations, Pricing Analyst) are working on a project that could put us there. We also had tours from other prospec-tive customers. Manitou/Belvidere operation is doing great as John and Joshua Moorehead use their addi-tional space to make im-provements in flow and out-put. Columbia is going through constant change re-warehousing to make room for more parts. Gabe White (GM) is working hard to make sure that our com-mitments on shipments are met while managing all the new inventory. Jay Hogan (Ripley) is working on con-stant improvements on our

Kevin Hogan Writes...

August 2013

Jack’s Words of

Wisdom…

“Slumps are like a soft bed.

They’re easy to get into and

hard to

get out of.” Kevin Hogan

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Dino McNabb

It is with great pleas-ure I can announce the opening of another Pierce Dis-tribution Center, this time for

Mahindra USA, Inc (MUSA). Mahindra USA and Pierce Distri-bution Services Company have entered into an agreement for Pierce to begin operational re-sponsibility for Mahindra’s Hous-ton, TX distribution facility. This new venture marks the initial business partnership between these two organizations. MUSA is a global manufacturing leader of tractors and attach-ments and is a subsidiary of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. Their portfolio includes automo-biles, buses, aerospace, marine and military products. MUSA is committed to providing the high-est level of service to their cus-tomers for aftermarket parts support. Pierce will rely on its many years of experience han-dling service parts for customers in the agricultural industry as well as related fields to bring “best in class” distribution princi-ples to this new endeavor. Beginning October 1ST 2013, we will begin to manage the entire aftermarket parts warehouse for North and South America within the Mahindra assembly facility. Pierce will utilize all of their re-sources to ensure this transition is seamless and to provide im-mediate improvements to their customer base. Mahindra is committed to providing a “best in class” parts warehouse with private branding as their main objective. Pierce is proud to be a part of this mutually beneficial partnership that will provide the “best in class” service levels that

Our Chief Operating Officer Writes ...

support of Kevin Hogan, our President / CEO. Lots of peo-ple play a role in the success stories of Pierce Distribution Services. Like a basketball or football team, some carry the ball more than others, but the game can't be won without all others participating. In keeping with Pierce’s history of promoting from within, Bran-don Dunn, a supervisor from Columbia's Metso account has been named the General Man-ager of the Mahindra operation in Houston, TX. Brandon ac-cepted this new role which be-gins in September. It is impor-tant that all Pierce associates know that even though these opportunities don’t come up very often, when they do, we do look from within the com-pany first. Continuous im-provement is not only our com-pany mantra at the plant level; it is at the associate level as well. Brandon has shown that he can handle additional re-sponsibility and new chal-lenges. Congratulations to Brandon Dunn in his new position, and thank you to all Pierce associ-ates involved in making this new partnership happen.

Pierce is well-known for in the distribution marketplace. It takes a team of Pierce associ-ates to secure a new partnership with another company. Andy Ol-tremari, (Executive Business Manager) provided us the oppor-tunity to meet with the Mahindra executive staff. It was very clear to us from the beginning that Mahindra was serious about get-ting some professionals in there to resolve their service parts is-sues. Andy and I met with the Mahindra staff to outline their spe-cific needs, timeline, and pre-sented what solutions we could provide them. They toured John Bednar’s Manitou warehouse and could see their future before their eyes. From there, they toured Larry’s “multi-client” warehouse and could clearly see that organi-zation, cleanliness, and proper management are all consistent within all Pierce operations. Both local plants are very strong selling points for any potential client we tour through these locations. I’d like to thank all the associates at both these locations for making our jobs a little easier by being professional and always “tour ready”. As stated above, it takes several associates to make these things happen. John Bednar, John Mullin, and Tony Chiodini all play a huge role in making these ac-counts work. Jason Smith and his IT staff are vital in any operational process and of course none of this is even possible without the

Chris Cacciatore

Congratulations,Tony!

Paying into insurance companies to protect us in case of an acci-dent is never fun, but it is a nec-essary evil. Companies recog-nize the value in finding some-one who represents their best needs. When it comes to work-man's comp insurance and gen-eral liability insurance, Pierce has chosen to belong to an in-surance captive known as the Millennium Insurance Co, Ltd. Millennium is made up of 33 dif-ferent companies nationwide who insure themselves for work-man's comp, general liability and auto claims, and Artex Risk So-lutions, Inc. is the third party ad-ministrator. The Millennium Board of Direc-tors is made of up four commit-tees: Risk Control, Finance, Un-derwriting, and Travel, as well as a Secretary, Vice President, and a President. Pierce Distribution joined Millen-nium in 2006, represented by our own Tony Chiodini, the Chief Financial Officer at Pierce Distri-bution. By 2008, Tony became involved with the Board of Direc-tors as the Risk Control Chair-person and held that position

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until 2010. From 2010 until 2011, he held the Secretary position. From 2011 until now, he has held the Vice President position. Currently, some of his duties as VP include chairing the meetings and holding executive committee conference calls. He's also the main point of contact be-tween Artex and the members of the captive. In November 2013, however, he be-comes the President of Millennium, a position he will hold until 2015. Among many other duties, the Presi-dent is in charge of negotiating the contract with Artex, which the Board then votes on. Millennium meets twice a year in different locations. During their meetings, they form policies, brain-storm about workplace safety trends, vote on insurance and third party administrator renewals and approve financials, audits, and taxes. Each company gets one vote. They also approve the distribution of unused premium funds, if any. Funds paid into a regular insurance company, if they aren't used, are lost. With Mil-lennium, if the premiums we pay in aren't paid out by either our company or the cooperative, the funds are div-vied up and given back to the com-panies. As part of Millennium, we are held to strict safety parameters and are au-dited annually. The latest score we received was 173 points out of 188, or 92%. In the "olden" days, safety on the job was often rewarded with a t shirt. Times have changed and we are now involved in the Safety Jackpot program, as such a program is a re-quirement of the Millennium Insur-ance Company Ltd. Congratulations to Tony on his up-coming term of President of Millen-nium this November, as well as all of his hard work on behalf of Pierce Distribution in this endeavor and all others.

Corporate Office Reports ...

SEPT. BIRTHDAYS

Melissa Knox Lorenzo Gonzalez Gary Wilson Reth Chey Maurice Arnold Luis Vazquez Patricia Dewalt Linda Taylor Anne Jarnigan Leticia Medrano William Taylor Donnie Ash Heather Carmack Khun Ngoy Jody S. Edwards Ronetta Pringle Scott Bencich Charles Shelton Moe Jordan Tiffany Nelson Cynthia Mena Nathan Stephenson Tony Strawn William Williams Jacob Hickey Iain S. Brown Mary Evans Brittnie Butler Jesus Rodriguez Trevon Farrow Jessica Dixon

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SEPT. ANNIVERSARIES

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ICP Writes ...

Fine Handiwork

ICP ICP has had some busy days loading containers in our yard. Our guys: Unloaded the equipment from flatbeds Added skids as needed Loaded the equipment into standard containers and

open tops Securely blocked, braced, and web-strapped eve-rything As Titus demonstrates, it helps to be thin and flexi-ble…

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Having Fun in the Yard Randy Cantonwine

Titus Seilheimer

ICP’s Service Anniversaries

ICP Continues ... ICP received an urgent call to crate four 30” knife valves for air shipment to Chile. (The valves weigh 1,500 lbs. each and will control the flow of powdered lithium from storage si-los.) The valves arrived Friday morning, were crated by Jody Edwards and Seung Chheung, and left for Chile the same afternoon. (A competitor had quoted 3 weeks!) Needless to say, the customer was very happy!

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Knife Valves arrive in the morning

Progress Midday

Job complete and on the road in afternoon

Victor Bravo Six Years

Lorenzo Ayalla Three Years

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Wellness & Prevention

Newsletter – August 2013

Each month Williams-Manny provides The Wellness & Pre-vention Newsletter

to you as a service for distribution to your employees. Please find the news-letter attached. The newsletter in-cludes information on health, wellness, nutrition and disease. This month's topics include:

How Money Smart Are You? OUTER AISLE FRESH – The Juicy Secrets to Making Your Own Juice EATING WELL RECIPE – Spinach Burgers GET MOVING – Take the First Step to Starting a Walking Group FISCAL FITNESS – Back-to-School Buying Basics THE WHOLE YOU – Physical Health: Kneading Out Tight Neck Mus-

cles THE WHOLE YOU – Emotional Health: Learning to Live in an Empty Nest HEAD ONLINE FOR MORE RE-SOURCES: Aug.hopehealth.com AUGUST HEALTH OBSERVANCES – Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month YOUR HEALTH MATTERS – Renew Relationships The Employee Resource Center brings together a collection of care-fully selected, comprehensive health, wellness and financial websites that encourages employees to be more proactive about their health and life-style decisions. Employee Resource Center Key Features . . . The Health Resources section fea-tures informational links on fitness and nutrition, senior health, kids’ health, prescription drugs, emergency resources, health calculators, mental health, disease risk assessments, and Tony Chiodini

Rockford Writes... Last month, Israel Galvan was hired as a Pierce associate. Israel has been working in the Procurement depart-ment as a picker/packer. He does all the heavy work in the de-partment as well as run most of the equipment

for the SPX account. Recently, Israel made a repair to the clip machine where he fash-ioned a guard at home and then mounted it on the machine. That is going above and beyond. Israel wrote: “I’ve been married to my wife Rachel, for 10 years. We have two children, Juan Car-los and Amari. I enjoy playing with my chil-dren and having family movie night. On weekends I try to stay active jogging, play-ing handball and soccer.”

This summer is flying by. It has been such a mild summer it does-n’t feel like it should be over yet but I am look-ing forward to the fall! I would like to give my deepest sympathies to two of our associ-ates. Bertha Gonzales lost her son and Raul Sanchez lost his dad. We had a visit from Carraro in July. Stefano Image (Sales and Business Development Manager) and Tania Ravani (After Sales and Spare Parts Manager) came to visit and discuss upcoming business events and changes. In January 2014 we will be transi-

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Our Chief Financial Officer Writes... health information from the world’s largest medical library, the Na-tional Library of Medicine. The Financial Resources section presents articles about budgeting and saving, college planning, kids and money, taxes, credit and debt, retirement planning, insurance, investing, leasing vs. buying a car, purchasing a home and getting a mortgage, and making a will. The Other Resources section offers tips about local volunteer opportunities, charitable giving, motor vehicle safety, vital records, and weather warnings. The Employee Resource Center is designed for all age groups, and content is appropriate for children and adults. To log into the Employee Re-source Center, enter erc.ubabenefits.com and log in using the following credentials: Username: Wellness Password: erc

Israel Galvan and Beth Futrell

Larry Hickey

Larry Hickey, Stefano Image, Tania Ravani, Beth Futrell

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tioning to SAP. We also talked about other changes and opportunities. It is always so good to see them. I would like to wish a very happy anni-versary to Bertha Gonzales; celebrat-ing 12 years in July and Linda Ross celebrating two years in July. Happy Anniversary to Ken Holze; he cele-brated 11 years in August. Happy Birthday to our August birth-days, Larry Hickey and Eric Cordoba. Another year older and wiser!

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Last month, Leticia Medrano, Procurement Lead, com-pleted her naturalization process to become a US citizen. Being born a US citizen I take much for

granted. For one thing, I didn’t know they called it being naturalized. It must be a lawyers’ term. To become a citi-zen, among other things, you have to take an oral test. The applicants are given 100 questions from which 10 are asked. If you get eight of the questions correct, you get to move to the next step. While Leti was studying for the test, I reviewed the questions and I can say without a doubt, I would fail. It is like taking the Constitution test again. At this point she knows way more than I do about how the government works. The ceremony took place at West Aurora High School which is a far west suburb of Chicago. The auditorium was packed. During the proceedings they announced that there were 338 partici-pants from 61 countries. They ranged in age from their 20’s to their 70’s. This is an official ceremony in a US court but it is really a celebration. As their names and countries were called off and they

Larry Hickey

Rockford Continues ...

received their certificates, you saw a full range of reactions, from the very stoic to jumping up and down screaming and tears of joy. People in the audience were crowding in to get photos of their family mem-bers receiving the certificates. It was truly an emotional event and I suggest to any of you, if you get the chance to attend such a cere-mony you should grab it. Taking in the event, it made me think of my ancestors who came to the US in the 1860’s from Ireland. How bad

Beth Futrell must it have been there for them to leave everything and move to a country that was in the middle of a civil war? Did they face the same bias as the people becoming citizens today? One thing I am sure of, Leti is a great addition to the US. She has a great work ethic and is devoted to her faith and family. Please join me in congratu-lating and welcoming her as a US citi-zen.

From L-R Marilee (Leti’s daughter), Laura (Leti’s sister), Leti, Betty (Leti’s sis-ter), Lidia (Leti’s aunt). Again, congratulations, Leti. We’re glad you are a part of our TEAM!

Greetings, I am Willie Wil-liams, Inven-tory/Receiving Supervisor here at Plant 4. I started working at Pierce Febru-ary 2012 as a member on the

Receiving Team. With great training and strong ambition, I was able to get promoted to Receiving Lead. From there I saw an opportunity to take ad-vantage of a situation by taking charge of several projects that would require a lot of re-warehousing over several months. The projects required a huge volume of moving product that would be difficult to do during our normal operating hours. So, it was decided that we’d start a 3rd shift to be able to ac-complish these goals in which I was later promoted to Supervisor. In the act of maximizing our total warehouse space, our third shift crew has been on several projects to make these goals a reality. There have been a lot of obstacles that stood in the way of getting our warehouse to how we want it, and thanks to this committed crew, we are more than satisfied about where we are now. In April, we started on 3rd shift, but the prepping for these projects started in February, where crew members like Carlton Seabrook constantly worked to get areas cleared out. This worker showed great initiative to clear sufficient room for us to install our carousel. Loading the carousel was a very impor-tant project, in which Samone Dozier played a key role in transferring parts into the carousel. While doing so, she audited our inventory to ensure our

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Columbia Writes ... quality and quantity met our standards. In addition to loading the carousel, we have installed new racks where we have minimized the space be-tween each rack to maximize the amount of pal-lets to put in each column. With the help of Kyle Huepenbecke, who took this project head on, we have been very successful and opened up 972 locations. Kyle has really taken charge in every project that he has been involved in, either doing it by himself or working as a Team. In the midst of change and relocation of a big volume of parts, we needed to consolidate a lot of product to maximize our location vacancy. Regal Gadson has been fundamental in this step to us, maintaining as much vacancy as possible. A part from re-warehousing, Regal has been doing a good job in putting away the new parts of incoming receipts. New to the crew, we have Christopher Jones who has shown great potential, and fits in good with the crew. He has been instrumental with finding parts that have been lost during this transition. The projects that have been completed and the ones that are in progress have been successful thus far because of the integrity this crew has in their work. Trevor McCloud deserves a special recognition for being involved in these projects while also picking orders. He has been involved with each step of our transitions and one of the biggest involvements has been loading the carou-sel. He came up with a great system to load the parts in the carousel and lead the way to com-pletely loading it up. With all of the work this crew has accomplished, they have paved the way for new and upcoming projects.

William Williams

L-R Kyle Huepenbecke, Samone Dozier, Carlton Seabrook, Regal Gadson, Christopher Jones

All Moved Out

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Columbia Continues ... More of our re-warehousing pride with a special thanks to Trevor McCloud

All Moved In

Ripley Writes ...

Sarah Hinchee

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Columbia Continues ... Maurice Seibles is the Safety Associate for the month of August at the Metso/Pierce facility. (Plant 4) Maurice works in the woodshop creating custom crates for pump parts. He’s been with Pierce since November 29, 2010. The Metso/Pierce Safety Team nominated Maurice for being a safe working Associate.

Tony Line-berry - bet-ter known

as "Grandy" Tony Line-berry, known by friends and family as an exercise

freak, loves to shop for antiques, enjoys collectibles, but most of all loves to be called "Grandy" by his four grandchildren. Debbie Chip-man nominated Tony for Associ-ate of the Month as she is proud of his work ethics. Debbie re-cently went to Tony and asked for a favor - "Would you please go to the Tokyo department, learn the job responsibilities as fast as you

L - R: Stan Bowie, 2nd Shift Supervisor, Tony Lineberry, Associate of the Month & Debbie Chipman, Line Lead.

can, and do everything as well as you can" and Tony did exactly what she requested and has done an excellent job. Tony has a 30 year old son, Adam, who has two children, Andrew and Alyssa, and his 28 year old daughter, Ashley,

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has a set of three year old twin daughters, Laila and Alaina (born on Hallow-een). The grandkids are the love of his life. Tony started with Pierce six years ago as a temp with SOS (staffing agency) and became a full time Pierce employee in February of 2011. Tony is a dedicated employee who travels 55 miles one way to work from his home in Atwood, TN. He remarks that "Pierce" is an Italian name, and his name "Anthony" is definitely Italian and that is why he enjoys working here as he always puts forth a positive effort as he strives to improve himself and Pierce all at the same time. Tony also enjoys de-signing - outside landscap-ing as well as interior de-signing. Watching silent movies (observing man-nerism) while reading is strange and entertaining at the same time as Tony strives to enjoy a multitude of TV eras. We appreciate Tony and his good work. Thanks, Debbie, for your nomination and con-gratulations Tony!

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Mike Moore

Ripley Continues ...

Birthday Celebrated

Tabitha Chandler Celebrates With Cake The Plant 7 Service Parts department celebrated the 21st Birthday of their supervisor, Tabitha Chandler. Tab was made to feel "extra spe-cial" with two birthday cakes. Her Line Leads provided cake and ice cream and went the "extra mile" with a little horseplay as somehow the beautifully decorated cake ended up on the face of our beloved Tab. Congratulations, Tabitha.

Tabitha receives a little clean up help from Bird Moore, Line Lead in Allocation/Scanning. Todd Rice, Breakdown Line Lead, looks "a little guilty" as Tab cleans up after a little birthday cake in the face.

Ripley Continues...

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Plant 7 selected the First Responders for each of our three shifts. This unique group was selected based on their positive attitudes, willingness to help others, good attendance, leadership skills and the ability to react responsibly in an emergency situation. On August 8, 2013, the group was blessed to have a gifted and knowledgeable trainer, Richard Griggs, of the Coving-ton Fire Department. Mr. Griggs did an excellent job of explaining procedures and policies to the energetic group. "Hands on" training is always the best - you can talk CPR, but actually performing the procedures your-self puts everything in the right perspective. Training the group on the use of the AED is an extremely critical part of being prepared for emergency situations - and you might ask, what is an AED? An Automated Exter-nal Defibrillator is a portable electronic device that auto-matically diagnoses the potentially life threatening car-diac arrhythmias of the heart. And "yes", we have a

portable AED located in the plant on the wall near the of-fice door. And we hope we never have to use this device, but we are trained and prepared to respond should the need arise. Management is requiring a "mock" demonstra-tion by the First Responders to determine our prepared-ness (or lack of readiness with the opportunity to enhance or make necessary changes). We will call a "Code Blue" - announcement over the public address system and/or ra-dio of where (what department area) the emergency has occurred. Officials will evaluate the First Responder's ac-tions, looking for adjustments or procedures to enhance. Safety Director, Tracy Schmitt, has made individual pic-tures of all Team Members to display in an effort to make all associates aware of who has been trained as First Re-sponders on each shift.

Mike Moore

“Love These Guys! Your Life May De-pend on Them!”

Team members are L-R Eric Jackson, Donna Oliver, Chad Hawks, Diana Spann, Jake Michaels, Thomas Dunn,

Susan Lovett, Stan Bowie, Sherita Young, Graham Moore and, not pictured,

Mike Moore.

Receiving “Hands On” Experience

Jake Michaels

Susan Lovett

Chad Hawks

Left to right Brittany Thompson, Bob Beghtel, Michael Chiodini, Cesar Martinez,

Bo Javin Griffith

Another month has flown by! Plant 8 has been busy this month. One of our office associates, Kate Montgom-ery, had her little boy. His name is Jaxon Edward. He was born on July 22 and weighed 9 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 22 inches long. Congratulations, Kate and Joel! Congratulations to the Mud

Volleyball Team. They didn’t win the championship but I heard they played well and had a great time getting all muddy! Thank you Kevin, for sponsoring this event! My 10 year old Granddaughter played on a Volley-ball Team this summer. It was fun watching this team play. She played at the YMCA and they were having trouble finding a person to coach the team, so my son volunteered. He really didn’t know much about volleyball but they ended up being the cham-pions of the league. My granddaughter loves play-ing volleyball. I told her keep practicing every chance she gets because it would be nice to be able to go to college on a volleyball scholarship. She wants to be either a marine biologist or a zo-ologist. She said maybe a veterinarian. We shall see; she still has plenty of time to change her mind!! Happy Birthday to our August birthday employees: Bob Beghtel, Michael Chiodini, Bo Griffith, Cesar Martinez, Kate Montgomery and Brittany Thomp-son. Happy Anniversary to our August anniversary em-ployees: Jhon Gaviria, Nick Grenlund, Bo Griffith, Cesar Martinez, Sam Martinez and Mark Turner!

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Belvidere Writes ...

Jenny Ralston

League Champions Granddaughter, Kaitlin in action

Congratulations to

Kate Montgomery on the birth of her son,

Jaxon Edward, born July 22. Welcome to the world,

Jaxon!

Happy Birthday

Cynthia Mena

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Left to Right, Front row – Mark Turner, Sam Martinez, Cesar Marti-nez Back row – Nick Grenlund, Jhon Gaviria, Bo Javin Griffith

Greetings from Plant 8’s Receiving Department. We’ve started out August aver-aging 186 lines per day on new re-

ceipts, and have turned 671 lines in returns so far. Great job! We’ve been shorthanded in Re-ceiving due to summer sick-nesses over the last few weeks. I would like to thank all of my associates for doing their part and helping out where needed. I especially want to give my per-sonal thanks to Sam Martinez. Sam has stepped up to the plate and is going beyond the call of duty! He has been pulling his weight and then some to get our HOTS binned as well as keeping our floor clean and empty as much as possible, nightly. You’re a superstar in my book, Sam. Keep up the good work, buddy. It is also school registration time again. I’m so glad school is back in session. It was hard for me to keep food in the house this summer. My fast growing teenage son and his friends were beginning to eat us out of house and home. I’m so glad we have Kevin Ho-gan on our side supporting and sponsoring our associates that want to help others who are less fortunate in their life’s jour-ney. Kevin recently helped us sponsor “Mud Volleyball for Epi-lepsy”. Our Team was called the “Pierce Mud Slingers”. Not only did they kick butt, they had a blast getting dirty while having fun. Thanks for your support, Kevin!

Celebrating Service Anniversaries

Hello! I would like to give a BIG Thank you to Kevin Hogan for sponsoring our Mud Vol-leyball tour-nament for 2013.This is a charity fundraiser for epilepsy. All proceeds are donated to the families and victims who have or live with epi-

lepsy. A few associates who work at Plant 8 put together a team for this. Listed are the names of everyone who played in the picture above. From top row to bottom row left to right - Top row: Jimmy Moore, Steve Eisman, David Zimmer-man, Tony James, Rick Davila, Ryan Eisman, Anthony Gallina and Jeremy Lin-den. Bottom Row: Tina Blunt, Brittany Thompson, Andrea Linden and Rebecca Hickey. We did really well as most of us have not played volleyball in a while and have never played together as a team. We won our first four games, but then lost the last four games. We were two games away from winning our court. But hey, we all had a blast and who can say they get to get all muddy for a good cause? We are all looking forward to doing this again next year! “GO PIERCE MUDSLINGERS” Thanks again, Kevin!! Brittany Thompson

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Hi! My name is Chris Adcock. I started working for Pierce in Sep-tember of last year. I like the peo-ple I work with everyday. I am part of the re-warehousing crew. Our job is to put like items with like items and re-organize parts to make a more efficient distribution center.

When I am not working, I like to fish but I haven’t had any time to do that this year. I also like to play darts. In the fall we play on Mondays and in the summer I play on Wednesdays with my girlfriend. We are not that good but still have fun!!

Chris Adcock

PDSC Scholarship Writes … The PDSC Scholarship Committee would like to congratu-late the participants who have been awarded Scholarship funds for the academic year 2013-2014. 1) Brian Garcia, son of Alicia DeAnda of our former

Bolingbrook facility, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholarship for the upcoming year. Brian is entering his fourth year at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illi-nois with his interests in Business Management. This begins Brian’s fourth year of participation in the Scholar-ship Program and his anticipated graduation is Spring of 2014.

2) Michael Chiodini, son of Tony Chiodini of the Corpo-rate Office, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholar-ship for academic year 2013-2014. Michael is entering his fourth year of study at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa with his major in Education. This is Michael’s fourth year of participation in the PDSC Scholarship Program. His anticipated graduation is Spring of 2014.

3) Rebecca Hickey, daughter of Larry Hickey of our Rock-ford facility, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholar-ship for the upcoming academic year at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. Rebecca is entering her fourth year of study with her interests in Law Enforce-ment and Justice Administration. This is Rebecca’s fourth year of participation in the program and her an-ticipated graduation is set for Spring of 2014.

4) Nayeli Aceves, daughter of Silvina Aceves of our for-mer Bolingbrook facility, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholarship Program for the upcoming academic year at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois. Nayeli’s major field of study is Information Technology with an anticipated graduation date of Spring 2015.

5) Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of Melissa Millner of our Ripley facility, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholar-ship for the upcoming academic year at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Elizabeth’s major field of study is Pre-dentistry. This is Melissa’s second year of participation in the PDSC Scholarship Program.

6) Nerath Tan, son of Eav Tan of our ICP Portland facility, has been renewed for the PDSC Scholarship for the upcoming academic year at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon. This is Nerath’s second year of participation in the Scholarship Program while completing General Studies. His anticipated graduation from Mount Hood Community College is Spring 2014.

7) Lindsey Bowie, daughter of Stan Bowie of our Ripley facility has been awarded the PDSC Scholarship for the

upcoming academic year at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Tennessee. Lindsey graduated Halls High School in May of this year and her major field of study will be in Natural Resource Management. This is Lindsey’s first year of participation in the PDSC Scholarship Program.

8) Jacob Hickey, son of Larry Hickey of our Rock-ford facility has been awarded the PDSC Schol-arship for the upcoming academic year at the Rock Valley Community College. Jacob gradu-ated Winnebago High School in May of this year and he will be mastering his General Studies prior to declaring a field. Jacob’s anticipated completion of this will be Spring 2015. This is Jacob’s first year of participation in the PDSC Scholarship Program.

Please join us in wishing all of these deserving stu-dents the best of luck as they pursue their educa-tional goals and careers. Congratulations, Parents, you have a lot to be proud of with the success of your children. Since the inception of Pierce Distribution Services Company’s PDSC Scholarship Program eight years ago, there have been 54 awards given to 25 depend-ents of employees (new applicants and renewals). Of those 25 recipients, eight are currently active in the program and ten have received degrees in their re-spective fields of study. New applications can be submitted to the PDSC Scholarship Program by May 1st of each year for the following academic year. Current participants can apply for renewal for up to four years, by July 1st of each year with a copy of their current transcripts. Applicants must be a dependent child of a Pierce Distribution Services Company employee with mini-mum employment of one year. First year students’ awards are determined on high school performance and acceptance in to a 2 or 4 year college, university or vocational-technical school. For a full listing of requirements, please see your HR manager for a PDSC Scholarship brochure.

Donna Hogan