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As material for the

construction of our

building, I pledge

the agility of my

hands, the ability of

my mind, and the in-

tegrity of my heart.

May 2017

Message From Your President PRESIDENT Dawn Killough Rich Duncan Construction

VICE PRESIDENT Robin Guzman A.G. Sadowski Company

TREASURER Elisabeth Shinn AKT

SECRETARY Kay Evans Salem Contractors Exchange

DIRECTORS: Susan Wood Salem Heating and Sheet Metal Sarah DeBrito Withers Lumber Kalene Martinez B&K Masonry  

As material for the

construction of our

building, I pledge the

agility of my hands,

the ability of my

mind, and the

integrity of my heart.

WEBSITE Visit our website at

nawicsalem.com

We had another successful Construction Career Day last month. Over 400 students attended, with 44 exhibitors. We held it at the Jackman-Long building at the State Fairgrounds. Exhibitors had lots of room and the kids stayed in their ap-pointed areas, mostly. More lessons learned will be applied to next year’s event.

May is going to be an exciting month for the Salem Chapter. Some of us will be volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity Women Build Week. We will be assisting with the construc-tion of a house in Keizer. I am looking forward to getting my hands on some tools and learning some new skills. It should be fun!

Our May meeting will feature a presentation by one of our members. Linda Jaeger of Cravinho & Jaeger Financial Ser-vices will be presenting “ObamaCare vs. Trumpcare.” It should be interesting to see what changes will be coming up. Come see us on the 17th to find out!

I’m so glad the warmer weather is here and the sun is out. En-joy!

Dawn

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In This Issue Message From Your President                        1 

Board Officers                                                        1 

Member Highlight                                                2 

Meeting Schedule                                                3 

Calendar                                                                   3  

May Meeting                                           4 

Construction Career Days                                5                                   

Habitat/Secret Pal                                               6 

Contact Information                                            7 

Committees                                                           8 

May Meeting Flyers and Other Info 

Upcoming Events

Great Fun!

PNW Region Forum

May 18‐20, 2017

May General Meeting

General Meeting

May 17, 2017

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

Cathy Gruenhagen

WELCOME!

Cathy Gruenhagen moved to Salem with her husband, mother, daughter and granddaughter in June 2006. She went to work for the State of Oregon Department of Justice as an account manager and six months later became a Project Manager. She does projects from start to finish and then maintains the offices after build. She site visits to find properties, leases with landlords and attorneys, designing office space, budgets, construction, furnishings, moving and making sure the customer is happy. Spent 25 years working in banks and credit union in all aspects of the financial business. Cathy was born in Virginia, but grew up in Napa, California. Cathy's dad was in the Navy. She has always been a planner for family and friends for events, even does catering. In her free time she spends time going places with her husband Don, and her 6 beautiful grandchildren. She has three children that she loves.

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DATES TO REMEMBER

May 2 Susan Wood’s Birthday May 2 Board Meeting May 12 Victoria and Daniel’s Anniversary May 17 General Meeting May 18‐20 PNW Forum San Francisco, CA May 29 Memorial Day June 6 Board Meeting June 20 Chick and Andy’s Anniversary June 21 NAWIC Appreciation Banquet June 24 Susan and John’s Anniversary

MAY Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 Board Meeting

3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 General Meeting

18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 Memorial Day

30 31 1 2 3

Salem NAWIC

May

Anniversary’s

Robin Guzman

3 Years

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May Meeting

The meeting was held at Salem Heating

and Sheet Metal. There was pizza, salad

and cookies for everyone. After

assembling about 100 Hard Hats,

everybody started really having fun

stuffing bags.

Janai Hill, Donna Mehlhorn and

Susan Wood (left to Right)

Getting hard hats and safety

glasses in the bags for

Construction Career Days

Chick Sadowski getting ready to

work!

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Construction Career Day

Our 2nd Year at the Fairgrounds turned out great. Being in the NAWIC Booth I felt the students were really engaged in the activities this year. It was great having students that were really interested in construction, asking pertinent questions.

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Secret Pals

Member News

To my secret pal: Thank you so much for the beautiful bouquet of flowers that just arrived at my office. What a nice sur-prise!! You are so good to me, I really appreciate you! I love the flowers they are gorgeous!! Susan Wood

Thanks to my secret pal for the lovely flowers, chocolate, and purple pens!

Dawn Killough, LEED AP

Our members helping in the community, Habitat for Humanity Women Build

May 2017. Julie Davis, Juli Stubblefield and Dawn

Killough and tools of the trade. Love those T-shirts!

Thank you Secret Pal! Juli

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Contact Information

SALEM NAWIC NEWS

Please send all articles and content 

recommendations for  this chapter to 

Kay by the 25th of each month. 

WEBSITE

Visit our website at

nawicsalem.com

FACEBOOK

Connect with us on Facebook at

www.facebook.com/nawicsalem  

MAILING ADDRESS

Salem Chapter NAWIC #198 

P.O. Box 15137 

Salem, OR 97309

PRESIDENT Dawn Killough Rich Duncan Construction dawn@richduncanconstruction.com VICE PRESIDENT Robyn Guzman AG Sadowski Company robin@agsadowski.com TREASUERER Elisabeth Shinn Aldrich Advisors eshinn@aldrichadvisors.com SECRETARY Kay Evans Salem Contractors Exchange kay@sceonline.org DIRECTORS: Susan Wood Salem Heating swood@salemheatingandsheetmetal.com Sarah DeBrito Withers Lumber sarahnichols@witherslumber.com Kalene Martinez B&K Masonry bkmasonry@hotmail.com Victoria Osegueda Universal Forest Products vosegueda@ufpi.com

National Officers President Connie M Leipard CIT cleipard@aol.com President Elect Catherine D. Schoenenberger Vice President Dove Sifers-Putnam CBT Secretary Diane Mike CBT dmike@erdman.com Treasurer Anne Pfleger, CIT Immediate Past President Riki F. Lovejoy CBT, CIT rlovejoy@rfl-consulting.com

Pacific Northwest Region Contacts: Director Ruth Fritts ruthf@mcalvain.com OREGON: Portland #54 Kelly Aust kelly.aust@skanska.com Salem #198 Dawn M Killough dawn@richduncanconstruction.com Eugene #77 Robin Langkamp, CIT robin.langkamp@farweststeel.com

WASHINGTON: Puget Sound #60 Kathryn Emtman kathryn.emtman@lewisbuilds.com Spokane #143 Talia A Brestar tnoyes@ipcabc.org South Sound #187 Laura Rannow laura.rannow@veca.com Tri-Cities #192 Carissa D Veltri carissav@conoverinsurance.com IDAHO: Boise Idaho #245 Brenda J Smith bsmith@paynewest.com ALASKA: Alaska #197 Misty D. Crim mistyconsulting@gmail.com GUAM: Guam #381 Shierly Caceres scaceres@henselphelps.com CALIFORNIA: San Francisco #19 Deborah Wilson djw@mcinerney-dillon.com Greater East Bay #30 Rachel M. Stroup rachel.stroup@hubinternational.com Sacramento #63 Cybil Bryant CybilBryant@BuzzOates.com Santa Clara #99 Donna E. Serrano Fresno #108 Teri E. Sherron Committee Chairs Membership: Cecyle D. Brock PR-Marketing: Shierly Caceres WIC Week: Vickie Squires

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2014-

2016-2017

BUDGET: Director: Elisabeth

Ways & Means: Kaylene, Susan Responsible for our chapter fundraisers, including scholarship raffles and golf tournament string sales.

Poinsettia Sales: Kay, Dawn Responsible for ordering Poinsettias from Egan Gardens and distributing them in December.

Birthday Auction: Sarah Conducts birthday auction at our membership meetings

Contractors Exchange Banquet: Dawn, Linda, Kalene, Becka, Julie Organizes the raffle for the Exchange Banquet, sells raffle tickets at the event.

Audit: (3 Needed) Susan, Sarah, Kalene (Robin alt.) Audits the chapter finances quarterly. Budget: Dawn, susan, Robin, Kalene Responsible for designing a budget for the year. The incoming Treasurer is the Chairman of the budget committee per our chapter policies.

MEMBERSHIP: Chairman/Director: Susan

Membership/Public Relations/Marketing: Victoria, Linda Responsible for promoting membership; sending NAWIC information & registration packets to prospective members. Sends press releases to various publications regarding Chapter activities.

Social Media/Website: Victoria, Becka Research setting up a website. After established, committee will maintain and update website.

Newsletter: Kay

PROGRAMS, EDUCATION AND PROJECTS (PEP): Director: Robin

Legislative Awareness: Kim Scholarship: Kay, Victoria Advertise, promote and select Scholarship Recipients. Career Days: Dawn, Victoria, Robin, Kalene, Susan, Becka, Kay Helps in the planning and participates in Career Days.

Block Kids: (We will discuss and decide if we want to try and do this during the year) An annual event for grade school children, who are given a certain number of Legos, string, foil, a rock, and a piece of poster board and then have the opportunity to create a building or construction site. Prizes are awarded.

WIC Week (March ): Sarah, Dawn, Victoria Responsible for planning events for the Chapter during WIC Week, which is the first week of March every year. This includes preparing a commitment form, tracking activities during the week, and preparing a recap form after the week. SPECIAL COMMITTEES:

Secret Pal: Robin Coordinates secret pal drawings.

By Laws: Board Responsible for keeping our chapter standing rules and policies and national bylaws current.

Historian: Sarah

Coast Retreat: Dawn, Sarah, Robin, Becka Plans Coast Retreat, a two day event that includes Chapters from our Region. Plans Chapter event in years not hosting.

NAWIC Banquet: Dawn, Robin, Sarah Plans the NAWIC Appreciation Night event to honor our bosses, usually held in the spring.

Nominating:

FUN: Becka, Kalene, Susan

NAWIC SALEM CHAPTER COMMITTEES

Please review and make sure you are

on the commi ees you signed up for.

SALEM CHAPTER 198GENERAL MEETING

Join us for our May meeting to learn more aboutwhat changes to expect in Healthcare Reformfrom Industry Professionals. The meeting will beinteractive with a Q&A session to cover specificissues. We will also be initiating 2 new members.

When: Wednesday, May 17th at 5:30 PM

Members - $25Guests (1st meeting) - Free

Where: Salem Contractors Exchange2256 Judson St SE, Salem, OR

Dinner – Del Taco

Please RSVP to Dawn Killough at dawn@richduncanconstruction.com or 503-390-4999. *Members who don’t RSVP by 5/15 will be charged whether they attend or not.

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It is my pleasure to invite you to NAWIC’s 62nd Annual Meeting and Education Conference, Aug. 16-19, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Anaheim, Calif. Women representing almost every facet of the construction indus-try will gather for education, networking and fun! You will not want to miss one minute of this capstone event for the 2016-2017 NAWIC year.

Each event, seminar subject, speaker and workshop has been planned with you in mind. Aimee Cohen, the conference keynote speaker, will inspire and educate with “Woman Up! Overcome the Seven Deadly Sins that Sabotage Your Suc-cess.” She will help you understand necessary action steps to transform your life and career.

Professional development seminars are filled to the brim with relevant information—information that will equip you to accelerate growth in your career. Linda Swindling will lead the conversation with “Ask Outrageously! The Secret to Getting What You Really Want,” the key to making the difference between success and failure in the personal and pro-fessional lives of women. We will hear from other speakers such as Katie Snapp, who will provide insight on “The Trouble with the Curve” as you transition from one career path to another or climb the ladder within your company. Also, included in this great lineup is Holly Hoffman, former “Survivor” reality show participant, who will help us understand how to “Thrive to Survive” and become a better leader, as well as Barbara Khozam, who will explain “How to Deliver Extraordinary Cus-tomer Service”.

Construction industry seminar speakers will share trends and cutting-edge information that can be utilized in your office as an employee or business owner. This information and knowledge will set you apart from the competition.

Association workshops led by NAWIC officers and national committee chairs will share resources available to help you become a leader in the industry through NAWIC leadership opportunities. This NAWIC connection will help build a per-sonal brand and develop a broad network of women leaders to encourage and support as you grow in the industry. Net-working will be a consistent component of this conference. The NAWIC Trade Show, Welcome Party, Industry Luncheon, and Awards Gala will give attendees ample opportunity to build important relationships for their future.

Build your education by learning from top construction industry and professional development experts. Build your career through the valuable network of NAWIC members, sponsors, and industry leaders at AMEC 2017. Build your future by participating in NAWIC leadership opportunities.

You can’t afford to miss this conference!

Your Invitation from President Connie M. Leipard, CIT