Estimating
We have finally signed the contract for Ellsin Environmental's Tire Recycling Facility. This one took a long time. We are looking forward to getting started. There is more info in the Project Update section below.

We were not successful on the Becker Cogeneration Boiler House & Turbine building but we were very close. We have been awarded the foundation package for the building and all of the equipment after many negotiations. Tim and John M. were on site this month and got caught in the blizzard and had to spend the night in Wawa as the highway was closed. They provided us an update on the road conditions as they went.

Ken S. has been working on the estimate for the new Toyota Dealership and closed the tender along with a lot of other bidders. We are waiting to hear the results.

We have been invited to bid on ten pre-engineered steel buildings totaling 78,000 square feet in Miramichi, New Brunswick. It is part of a $600 million project. We will be submitting our price very soon.

We are also pricing several additions with Steelway buildings.

We are working with a former client on a 100,000 square foot building similar to the Biomass building. They are quite serious about proceeding this year.

New Employees
We have a lot of employees sitting at home still but that will be changing very soon.

Becker Cogeneration Biomass Storage Building

It now appears that this building will be a 200 foot by 500 foot clear span building with an expandable end wall for a future 200 foot by 500 foot extension. We will be finalizing the details over the next few weeks and ordering the building. M. R. Wright & Associates will be doing the foundation design and the Owner would like it completed by the end of July! They haven't decided if they will be pouring a floor so we will be using buttress footings.

Becker Cogeneration Building and Equipment Foundations

John M. will be the Super on this one. He just finished the Essar Steel cogeneration concrete work and will once again be working with Emilio and Dan from Anmar Energy. The Project Manager will be Tim B. Our crew consisting of Bob H, Craig T, JR, Jerry C. and Jake M. will be heading to Hornepayne on April 12th to start getting organized. The reinforcing steel should be there shortly and we will be getting concrete out of Hearst for now until we get the portable batch plant set up on site. We will be increasing our crew size as the weeks go one. We have about 2,000 cubic metres of concrete to do and more coming later.

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Ellsin Environmental Tire Recycling Plant

As mentioned earlier, we have signed the contract. M. R. Wright & Associates has completed the engineering and drawings and we have applied for the building permit. The building has been ordered from Steelway and the revised delivery date is the week of May 31st. The site has been cleared and we had a burning permit approved. The day we started to burn was the day they put a ban on all burning permits so we had to stop. The ban has since been lifted and we are back at it. Ken S. is the PM and we are not sure who the Super will be, it might be KKC. General Contracting will be doing all of the site work. Our forces will be doing the structural slab with Ontario Concrete Finishing doing the placing and finishing. Our forces will also be erecting the Steelway building. Henderson Metal will be doing the HVAC and Permanent Electric will be doing the electrical. Ken is still sorting out the rest. Not much for pictures yet, just the clearing operations.

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Blind River Public Works Buildings, Sal-Dan Developments

The Steelway buildings have been ordered and are scheduled for delivery on May 3rd for the Works Garage, May 17th for the Cold Storage building and May 31st for the Salt/Sand Storage building providing the foundations have been completed by Sal-Dan. Dwayne may be the Super for the erection on this one and Clint is the Project Manager. Steelway did a feature on the rounded corners in their recently published "Beyond the Box" 1st edition newsletter.

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Adler Moving Warehouse

We are still waiting for the building permit for this job and should have it very soon. Our crew will get the foundations completed and the Steelway building will arrive the week of April 26th. Our crew will be erecting the building as well. Since John M. is now going to Hornepayne, we think that Sid may be the Super once he gets back from holidays. Dwayne will be filling in for Sid.

Praxair T900 Oxygen Plant

Praxair has now decided to tender out the remaining work and have sent us a tender package. As such, there is not much more work that we will be doing on site until the tender closes and the work is awarded.

Algoma University Bioscience & Technology Convergence Centre

This project was completed a while back but Wayne just sent me the final pictures before it is turned over to Cy Rheault Construction who was the successful bidder on Phase 2.

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POD Generating Solar Farm
We did a small job for POD at the 20 MW Base Line site. We had to demolish several barns and some old houses along with the capping of five wells. We were also asked to plough the fields into furrows with a farm tractor. This was part of a government agreement where by they send in an archeologist to inspect the furrow for any artifacts. Unfortunately, we were not the low bidder on the larger site preparation, concrete pads and fencing tender.
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Bob Ryckman, our Safety Director will be a speaker at the Superior 2010 Health & Safety Conference & Trade Show being held on April 20th and 21st at the Delta Waterfront Hotel. Bob will be presenting on Wednesday, April 21 in the Series 8 seminars from 3:30 to 4:45 pm. The topic will be Construction Safety: Planning and Implementation. I just know that Bob will put on an excellent presentation so please don't miss it.

We had 15 employees re-certified for Fall Protection and Ken James, our former Safety Director, did the course in our Training Room on March 16th and 18th. Ken's course is very thorough and takes a little over two hours. It was great to see Ken back teaching in his former Training Room. Ken you look great and can still talk about Safety for hours!
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We had Man Lift re-certification training on March 30th for Sid, John B, Glen, Donnie, Tyson, Jorge, Bob, Jake, JR and Andy. It was a two hour course and the instructor was Rick Wilson; it was held at Construction Equipment.

Other upcoming Safety Training courses will be First Aid/CPR for five of our guys, Rigging & Hoisting re-certification for 13 of our guys, Propane Handling re-certification for 16 guys and our annual WHMIS update for all of our guys.

Ryan and Zak will be attending the first level of Carpenter's Apprenticeship Schooling at Cambrian College from April26-June 18.

CONVENTIONS & SOCIAL EVENTS
The SSMCA's annual curling bonspiel will be held this month and we were hoping to register two teams. Dwayne and Kim were the only ones who were interested and so we had to cancel our teams.

As you know from our March Newsletter Dwayne and Kim attended Steelway's Annual Builders Meeting. Dwayne said it was very informative and Bryan Hernandez from Steelway did a presentation where he talked about the Blind River buildings with the rounded corners. Steelway had asked Dwayne to do a presentation however Dwayne declined. Here are some additional pictures from that convention.
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Congratulations
A big congratulations to our very own Scarlett who won the "Outstanding Supporting Actress" award at the Quonta Drama Festival held in North Bay. Scarlett was in the Sault Theatre Workshop's production of "String of Pearls." Amanda Vanderleest was awarded "Outstanding Female Actress" as well. I believe that this the first time that anyone from the Sault has won these awards! Great job girls!

Congratulations to Brenda and Dan who recently got married in the Dominican Republic on April 6th; Dwayne and Kimmy were in attendance. The rumour is there were quite a few self inflicted headaches the entire week AND the Resort lost power during the wedding ceremony! Dwayne has provided us with some "Kodak" moments.
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Congrats to Kimmy who we understand recently scored her very first goal in the Women's Hockey League (WHL). Dwayne had Black Loon make her up a plaque to celebrate the occasion. Kim has come a long way from her first hockey player skating experience!
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Congratulations to Kim and the Brookfield Power team in winning the WHL title. The tournament was held on April 10th and 11th. Kim's team had to go into 4 periods of overtime to eliminate one team and advance to the finals. Kim's team then went on to beat Cheri Taylor's team by a score of 2-0. The picture of the winning team is attached as well as the losing team. The winners are in the blue uniforms.
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More congratulations to Kim , the Team Captains Melissa Holder and Sherry Boston and the entire Brookfield Renewable Power team on being awarded the "Most Sportsmanlike Team" for the 2009 -2010 WHL season. Good job ladies!
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Huge congratulations to Mayor John who will have completed his 5,000th length of the pool at the YMCA on April 14th and will have raised over $20,000.00 for the "Through These Goggles Campaign" which will go to The Sault Family YMCA Strong Kids Campaign. We donated $0.10 per length for a total of $500.00 and I told John that if he actually did the 5,000 lengths I would donate an additional $500.00 and I guess he got me. Great job John, you are incredible!
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The April Birthday Club:
Zak S. April 27th

Mike Moore & Sons Construction's Donation Status

2009 Donation Goal	50
YTD Donations	17
Total Donations (Total donations since joining Partners for Life)	264

April Clinic Times
Tuesday, April 27th 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Verdi Hall
Wednesday, April 28th 11:30 am to 7:00 pm Verdi Hall

Tibits

Here are a couple of "sports jokes" from Shauna.

A little known fact. . . . The first testicular guard "Cup" was used in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important!

A 3 year old boy examined his testicles while taking a bath. "Mom", he asked, "Are these my brains?" "Not yet" she replied!

And here is a nasty one from Dwayne.
The National Poetry Contest had come down to two semi-finalists: A Yale Graduate and a Newfie. They were given a single word, then allowed two minutes to come up with a poem that contained the word.
The word they were given was "TIMBUKTU."

The Yale graduate steps up the the microphone and said:
"Slowly across the desert sand
Treked a lonely caravan
Men on camels, two by two
Destination- TIMBUKTU."

The crowd went crazy! No way could the Newfie top that, they thought.

The Newfie calmly made his way to the microphone and recited:

"Me and Tim a huntin' went,
Met T'ree whores in a pop-up tent,
Dey was t'ree and we was two,
So I bucked one and TIMBUKTU"!

We now have 609,998 man hours with no Lost Time Injuries (LTI) or a total of 4,216 days. We only have 390,002 man hours to go to reach our goal of 1,000,000 accident free hours.

Our beagle, Stormy, is now on the Colorado protocol for cancer treatment. When he goes for his treatment every three weeks he really gets the s--t knocked out of him but he always comes back like the dancing fool he has always been within 3 days. Storm has to have 5 treatments in total and he has two left to go. We are looking forward to flying into Tribble Lake Resort with him on the May long weekend; that would be providing the lake has enough water. We are considering putting an employment add in the Sault Star to hire some beavers to repair the broken beaver dam. The lake level has dropped almost four feet over the last few years and with the lack of snow this winter, it could be quite difficult getting the float plane up to our dock.

We have been invited to the Canadian Blood Services Awards banquet to be held on Friday, April 26th at the Marconi Hall. The Partner Recognition Reception will be held at 5 pm and at 7:30 pm they will hold the Honouring our Lifeblood- Donor Appreciation Event.

We have also been invited by Joyce Kohut to attend the Humane Society's Board meeting to be held on April 20th at the Collegiate Heights Retirement Home. They want to give us an Appreciation Award for our many years of being the major sponsor of their Annual Cause for Paws walkathon. This year will be their 14th walkathon!