Estimating
The Estimating Department has slowed down a bit as we have several projects on our plate right now. Tom has taken over the Project Management on the Co-Generation project for Algoma Energy LP and Ken McLellan is our Superintendent. Tom has been pricing some additional projects inside Algoma Steel.

Tom is also pricing some concrete work for EPTCON at the Gartshore GS near Wawa.

Ken Stitt has assumed the Project Management on the Collegiate Heights Retirement Home Addition, KK (Ken Coventry) is the Super on this job.

Ken S. and Mike are pricing a new hanger building in Elliot Lake which closes on September 5th.

Mike has been fairly busy working on the Kenworth Truck Centre foundations and building in Sudbury as well as the Revert Building foundations and building at Inco. He is also pricing a large steel building for a hoist house for Inco at the Totten Mine site. This job closes on September 10th. He is also working on several budget prices and a few projects in the early stages.

The press release that was made on Friday, September 7th at Algoma University was a very important one regarding solar energy. It was also very good news for us as well. So stay tuned!

The North Bay project is still on track and the preliminary architectural plans are complete. We are now into the structural, mechanical and electrical design stage. M. R. Wright & Associates and NorMech Engineering are part of our design-build team on this one. Sid can hardly contain his excitement and is looking forward to North Bay.

New Employees
We would like to welcome Tim Buchan to our team as a Project Manager. Tim started on Tuesday, September 4th and brings a huge amount of expertise with him. Tim recently worked on the new Davey Home and has just completed the east end Sewage Treatment Plant expansion for NAC as their PM. For those of you who don't make the connection, Tim is the late Harvey Buchan's son, (Samson Construction). Tim's Dad was the ONLY Northern Ontario General Contractor to be the Chairman of the OGCA (Ontario General Contractors Association). Harvey demanded that the "O" be put back into the "OGCA"; the "O" referring to all of Ontario. We, in the north, are still waiting for that to become a reality. Great to have you with us Tim!

Welcome back to Nick Moore and Len Beaudin.

OPP Forensic Lab

Wayne and Donnie are slugging away on this project. Blair and Clinton have taken over as the Project Managers. Wayne was on holidays for a week and Donnie covered for him; then Donnie was on holidays for a week. Zak Seibt, Wayne's son has now returned to school and left the boys on their own; Zak how was dear old dad to work for? The building shell is now up and MJM Roofing is installing the roof membrane. The exterior brick was delivered to site and Gough Masonry will start to install it soon. Henderson Metal, Ideal Contracting, McLeod Bros. Mechanical, Phase Four Electrical and Vipond Fire Protection are all on site working away. Wayne had a Ministry of Labour inspection on August 23rd and everything was satisfactory. Good job to everyone on site.

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Collegiate Heights Retirement Home Addition

KKC is our Super on this project and Ken Stitt is the PM. Ken will be receiving some assistance from Tim Buchan, our newest PM, on the tendering of subtrades and materials. Avery Construction has been working on the sitework and our forces started the footings. We have been held up due to a relocation of the Staff parking lot, which has now been resolved. DNM Plumbing has been on site as our subtrade. M.R. Wright & Associates is our testing company. We should be able to get back to the foundations very soon. Ryan, Bob, Randy, Jerry C. and Wayne M. have been working on these. KKC is complaining that he needs subtrades and we are having a bit of a time finding him some because everyone is quite busy right now. Hey KKC, great job on the EdgeBuilder reports, keep up the good work.

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ASI Co-Gen Foundations

We've been waiting for some drawings on this project. Ken McL. Is the Super and Tom is doing the PM work. This project is moving extremely slow right now as we have been waiting for rebar for several weeks now. We have had one big pour so far; some of our guys had to work into the wee hours of the morning. Gerry, Craig, JR, Jake, Andy, Chris, Mike Mathieu and Duane have been some of our team on site. Hopefully, we will receive the rebar in early September and then commence work on a steady basis. Sorry, no pictures allowed.

EPTCON MacKay GS Concrete Repairs
Clinton attended the pre-construction meeting in August and our guys are building the forms in our yard. We should be on site this month and get started. More to follow in October.

EPTCON Garden River Foundations
We have received the drawings for the transformer pad and will be doing it this month. There are now two pads to install.

EPTCON Third Line Foundations
John was our foreman on this job; along with help from Chris M and Nick they have completed the project; it consisted of a transformer pad and some containment curbs.

Cooper Crane Building Renovations
Terry G is the foreman on this, Trevor and Chris P have been working diligently on this project and it is almost completed. They have installed the new roofing and replaced the siding as well as the overhead doors. They are working on trims, flashings and final clean up.

TSC Store Steel Erection
This project is progressing along to completion. All of the roofing, most of the siding and liner panel have been installed. They are working on trims and flashings as well as the roof canopy; they still have to sheet the wood trusses. Our crew consists of Jason Shuttleworth as our man in charge, Justin, Mark, Cal, Tyler S, Joe, Scott M, Scott G, Ryan, Chris M, and Chris P. Some of these guys are also working on other jobs from time to time. This job should be completed within the next few weeks.
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Nexacor HVAC Upgrades
This job is still in progress and will hopefully be completed by the end of this month.

ASI Women's Welfare Room Renovations
Ken C. will have this job completed shortly, Tom's PMing this one too. It has been a very congested little area and deliveries have held us up. ASI will be glad to have it completed and turned over, so will Kenny.

MTO McKay Road Bridge Rehabilitation
Ray has received his B.C. fir timbers and is busy constructing the replacement trusses. Once they are assembled, he will take them apart and haul them to the site for reassembly. Bob Wood is doing a review of Ray's temporary shoring plan and we should be able to get started soon. Ken James will be putting Ray and Northern Fencing, who will be doing the new guard rails, through our safety orientation and the site specific one. This project should be completed by mid October.

Inco Revert Building, Copper Cliff
This Steelway building will be shipped in early October. We will be going down to begin the foundations on September 10th. All of our guys working on this project have to update their Norcat training and then have the Smelter orientation before they can be allowed on site. The foundations consist of large piers with a battered "counterfort" on the backside. DMC Reinforcing will be doing the rebar for us. Anmar will be doing the epoxy coatings to the structural steel and then the erection. Once that is complete, our crew will be doing the cladding. Mike and Blair are sharing the PM duties, Dwayne is overseeing supervision and Gerry B. will be the man in charge on site.

Kenworth Truck Centre Building, Sudbury
We have finalized all of the changes on this building at long last and can now complete the foundations. John, Nick, Jerry and Wayne M. are the guys on site. Steelway now has all of the information they require to start the approval drawings and give us a revised delivery date. We quoted the building as "supply only" but David Vitone from Anmar would really like us to consider doing the cladding. If we can free up a crew, we will consider this. David has also discussed the pouring of the floor with us as well as the loading dock and some concrete aprons. Mike and Blair are sharing the PM duties on this project as well.

SAH On Call Rooms Renovation
Sid has taken over the finishing of this project. He has Advance Interiors, Henderson Metal, McLeod Bros. Mechanical, Phase 4 and Superior Tile on site all trying to get finished. The delivery of the shower units has delayed our completion. Sid is hoping to have this job completed in early September.
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Beacon Marine Addition
Bob, Nick and Craig have completed the structural slab during the last week of August. DMC did the rebar for us and Centis was supposed to place and finish the floor. Unfortunately, they were overbooked and could not make it. We borrowed two of OCF's guys and poured it with our own forces. Nick was our "main man" for the finishing. Dwayne was on site to lend a helping hand. Good job guys. The Steelway building should be delivered the week of October 8th and our guys will be doing the erection and cladding.
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Quality Inn Millwork Installations
We are installing the new reception counter and various millwork for Black Loon at the Quality Inn. Sid and Scott have been working on it and Sid sent us some pictures.
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I would like to discuss work refusals as they are laid out in the Occupational Health & Safety Act and the Construction Regulations (all of which fall under the Ministries intent of promoting the Internal Responsibility System). The green book speaks of worker refusals, but not a contracting company or subtrades refusal process (in which a competent supervisor has a concern for their crews) unless the intent is meant to mirror the worker refusal?

For information under the Occupational Health & Safety Act of Ontario for a work refusal see the following sections: Act - Employer defined 1(1), Refusal to work 43

Would it not be nice to include in the next rewrite of the construction act and regulations to also include a corporate (company) refusal and a documented process for a good competent supervisor refusal process on behalf of his crew/men. After all is the intent and requirements of the act and regulations not to make supervisors and all employers responsible for the health and safety of all the workers under them and/or reporting to them such as immediate staff, subcontractors etc.
Ignorance of the laws and regulations is no defense. But then again being reprimanded in any way, shape or form for requesting information or for refusing unsafe work or conditions by anyone (worker, supervisor, project manager, company, owner, etc.) is also unacceptable, and must not be allowed to happen.

Please let's all work hard and together to ensure every worker goes home at the end of the day, healthy and safe.

On another super positive note our employees are doing a great job; we are well recognized for our health and safety work ethics, our safety program and the safety culture be continue instill. I wish to thank each and every one of you for all your efforts and commitment to health and safety. From the worker, supervisor, project manager, estimator and office staff my work is made easier by your continued commitment. Let's not forget the subtrades that work for us that also embrace our standards.

Never sacrifice safety for any reason or person.

"Practice safety in all you do --- everyone depends on you!"

We had a very good two day training course with Lisa from EdgeBuilder, she is an excellent instructor. In attendance were Ken S, Tom, Blair, Mike, Clinton, Tim, Fern, Shauna and on occasion, Super Sid.

Sault College, in conjunction with the SSM Construction Association and the Ontario General Contractors Association are offering several fall courses with Gold Seal credits. The courses are Construction Planning & Scheduling (Oct. 3-Dec. 5) and Construction Site Leadership (Sept. 26-Nov. 28), both courses carry 5 GS credits. The Construction Association is also offering some one-night courses including Leadership, Stress Management Tips and Conflict Resolution. For more information please contact Sault College or Tammy at the Construction Association. These are all very good courses.

As per our company requirement for management Ken McLellan, Clinton Burmaster and Tim Buchan will all be applying for the Gold Seal designations.

Dwayne did his on-line Norcat update and also had to update his WHMIS as Norcat considers a WHMIS card as valid for 2 years only. Then DP had to answer the 456 questions on-line, after which he has to actually do the written test with another 40 questions. If all goes well he will get his photo I.D. card and be good to go!

Conventions & Social Events
Our annual MM&S Yard Fest was cancelled due to lack of response. We will have to re-think this event for next year.

We had a small luncheon on Aug.8th for Frankie's departure (Aug. 10th) and have included a few pictures.
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Congratulations To:
Mike Moore & Sons Construction Ltd. on their 18th anniversary in business and thank you to all of our employees, you made this possible. Special thanks to Dwayne Phillips (18 yrs), Ken Coventry (18 yrs), Wayne Seibt (18 yrs), Ken Stitt (18 yrs), Donnie Coventry (16 yrs) and Mike Mathieu (13 yrs)

The Sault Steelers on winning the Championship game over the Tri-City Raiders, good luck on the Canadian Championship in Oshawa.

Kay Crosato on graduating with a Masters Degree in Science and Nursing. She's Frank and Sherri daughter.

Clinton on his recent graduation picture in the Sault Star. We are wondering why it didn't say that "Clinton has accepted at job as Project Coordinator with Mike Moore & Sons Construction and primary tea brewer".
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Professor's James, Holmes and Deschamps who have all accepted part-time (evenings) teaching positions at Sault College. Professor James will be an instructor for Construction Safety, Professor Holmes will be instructing Small Equipment Repairs and Professor Deschamps will be instructing Equipment Handling. Congratulations guys, very impressive! Do any of you guys have any degrees that we are not aware of?

TheSeptember Birthday Club:
Kaylin Deschamps September 10th
Duane Shewfelt September 7th
James Turner (JR) September 21st
JR Shuttleworth September 23rd
Shane Phillips September 25th
Riley Gauvreau September 26th
Shelley Murphy September 30th

Mike Moore & Sons Construction's Current Donation Status

2007 Donation Goal	100
Donations to Date	69

OCTOBER CLINIC TIMES
Tuesday, October 9th, 4:00 to 7:45 PM
Wednesday, October 10th, 12 noon to 2:30 PM and 4:00 to 7:45 PM
Thursday, October 11th, 9 AM to 11 AM

Please get out and donate, Canadian Blood Services is experiencing a shortage. I was going for my 40th donation at September clinic but I was deferred due to my blood pressure being 158 over 118. CBS will not allow anyone to donate blood if their diastolic pressure is over 100. Ken James on the other hand some how managed to make his 39th donation and we are now tied. I will be trying to move ahead at the October clinic. Good job Ken!

Tidbits
Here is a true or false quiz about bees and wasps, see how you do.

1) To reduce the risk of being stung, you should avoid bananas and bananas scented toiletries: all perfumes and after shaves attract them
2) Sweat angers bees
3) The face is the most likely place for a bee or wasp to sting
4) When a bee stings, it releases a chemical that alerts other bees to attack
5) If you're being attacked by several stinging insects at the same time and can't get indoors, you should jump into water
6) If you're being attacked and you can't get indoors, you're better off in a shaded area than an open area.

Answers: They're all true!

Here is another good one for all of us early risers. A recent study covering 3,017 healthy adults between the ages of 23 and 90, found that early risers had a greater risk of heart conditions including hypertension and of having strokes. The study also noted that early risers were usually older. Hey John Hollingsworth, maybe we better start sleeping in more or arriving at work no sooner than 8:00 AM!

And here's the best one, inhaling in the steam from a just-opened package of butter popcorn can cause lung cancer if done in great quantities. "Popcorn lung" apparently is caused by the chemical "diacetyl" which is a naturally occurring compound that gives butter its flavours and is also found in cheese and wine. There has only been one case reported and was it really caused by popcorn?

We have really struggled with this newsletter as we have not had time to do a proper job and we are late in having it launched. Hopefully we will have more time for the next one.

As everyone is aware Frank Bruni left us last month to go to work for Ellis Don on the new SAH hospital project. Dave Watson and Nancy Brogno have recently left for the same reason. We wish them well in their new employment; however we wonder what their plans are in three years when this project is over? Are they planning on relocating to Southern Ontario?

I have been in discussions with Tim Smith from Ellis Don with regards to what services we could offer them on the new SAH project. Tim and I will meet in the near future to discuss this further.

Fern, I and our Beagles flew into the Tribble Lake Resort for the last time this year. We are quite concerned with the lake level as it is down 28 inches from the normal water line mark. We are thinking that a beaver dam has broken and is draining the lake; we also think that there are no veteran beavers around to re-build the dam. This is sounding like the trades people situation, none to be had! The young beavers are all starring in Bell commercials, Frank & Gordon where are you two, natures calling!!!!! As usual, we took Fern's boyfriend (the laptop), printer and lots of work with us but did not get to it all. We had hoped to finalize our Human Resources and Company Policies, but ran out of time. We never even had the time to do any fishing!
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I am reading a book called SAFETY 24/7, Building an Incident-Free Culture (when I have time) and it is a very interesting book. I may have some new ideas for Ken James to work on.

I had an interview with Fernie Tiflis for a feature article on our company in "Construction Today". It's an American publication out of Chicago. The article should appear in the October issue. "Construction Today" focuses on best practices and benchmarking; their readership consists of top executives across the U.S. construction industry.

At a recent Construction Association Board of Directors meeting, we were informed that our Vice-President had resigned from that position due to time constraints. I accepted the position of President for a second consecutive term and we elected Brenda Sywstun from Lafarge as the new Vice-President. Brenda will be the Association's FIRST EVER female President. Congratulation Brenda! Glen Foster is extremely thrilled as he will now have to stay on for at least one more term as Secretary-Treasurer. Brenda and I have asked him to stay on for her term as well. Congratulations Glen!

Ken James and I experienced a video conference "test run" with Mary Wademan of the Ontario General Contractors Association. Mary had a webcam so we could see her but we didn't manage to see her cheery face. Thanks to Matt Clark of e/pop who has offered to send us a webcam and a headset free of charge. Ken and I enjoyed the "dancing" of someone at OGCA who thought we had signed out of the conference!

The Mike Moore & Sons Annual Educational Fund for Post Secondary Education for employees' children was awarded to Tom Kulmala's children, Alicia and Mark. Alicia is attending Cambrian College in Sudbury. Her career choice is in the field of Dental Hygiene (a two year program); she looks forward to embarking on her clinical career. Mark is attending Algoma University College and perusing a degree in Psychology (a three year program). He plans on applying his skills to assisting individuals resolve the personal issues.
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Our Employee Safety Committee had a luncheon date at North 82 on Wednesday, August 22nd. The lads chowed down, had great food and timeout from work, briefly.

We have been experiencing a larger degree of trouble with our internet service over the last six weeks; our initial Shaw issues began in February 2007. Each time we called Shaw their comments were that everything was just fine on their end, the problem was ours. We have had to re-boot our router every morning and several times a day over the last six weeks. Derek Rice and Will Sayers from BDO have been spending a lot of time with us trying to solve the problem. We began a process of elimination at Derek's recommendation; we switched routers several times with no luck; we removed all remote access hook ups. We had Shaw test our cable line and they repeatedly say it is fine. On Friday, September 7th they finally changed our modem and as of this release our horrendous problems have ceased. We are seriously considering having our lawyer present Shaw will a letter outlining our costs over the last six weeks that include our IT costs from BDO, our lack of internet access when Lisa was doing her EB training on August 24th and 25th. If anyone else in the Industrial Park is having modem/router problems we would like to hear from you, so please call us.