A woman is

like a teabag. Its only when

shes in hot water that you

realize how strong she is.

Nancy Reagan Message From Your President

I really enjoyed Heather Gray and Donna Randolphs talks about starting their own businesses. Both had good advice on how to be prepared and how to create a support system when needed. Lisa is moving right along with the membership contest. Even if we dont get everything completed for the contest, we can use this as a tool to get out there and bring in new members. I dont think I saw anyone from a painting contractor. Ladies, lets see if we can start contacting ladies who work in that industry and get them to attend a meeting or two. I loved the way both Heather and Lisa pointed out how valuable their membership has been to them. Wendi shared some good information to relay on WIC Week. The event planned for San Luis Obispo is included in this newsletter. For Santa Maria coverage, our chapter has a sponsorship for the Women of Excellence Banquet held by the Santa Maria Womens Network. Our sponsorship will get us mentioned in the Program, our name on a sign at the door and we will be inserting brochures in 150 gift boxes for the attendees. Good job, Wendi, on getting information about NAWIC out to the public during this celebration week! Congratulations to Laurie Evans for winning the Gift Certificate for a 30-minute massage donated by Virginia Hall, Therapeutic Bodyworks & Massage. Shes located here in Santa Maria and if youve been looking for a good masseuse, shes the one to visit! Our speaker for March will be Kim Davis with CASA. Her topic, is Constructing Brighter Futures. Now is our chance to hear what effect our Backpacks for Foster Kids and Christmas Bags for Foster Teens programs have on our local foster children AND is there more we can do? Looking forward to Forum in Hawaii! I am impressed with how many of our members plan to attend. Besides me, Joan Hertel, CIT, Denise Riegel, CIT, Wendi Patterson and Marcia Papich plan on attending. If there are any other members who plan on attending, please let me know. Contact Marcia or me regarding your registration.

Happy St. Patricks Day! Donna Castaneda, CIT

PRESIDENT DONNA CASTANEDA, CIT VICE PRESIDENT HARPER LASH TREASURER MARCIA PAPICH SECRETARY / IPP DENISE RIEGEL, CIT DIRECTORS WENDI PATTERSON LISA SPRAGUE, ALIVIA HORTON

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February 2014

San Luis Obispo Builders Exchange Annual Crab Feed

January 24, 2014

From Left: Marcia Papich, Papich Construction, Wendi Patterson, United Staffing Associates and Myrna Smith, Contractors & Developers Bonding represented NAWIC at the San Luis Obispo County Builders Exchange Annual Crab Feed

Kristine Mollenkopf, a past Central California Coast Chapter President and current President of the Santa Maria Valley Contractors Association presents Phil Vega, Owner, C&D Bonding and Chapter member, Myrna Smith with the Alan Kyle Award for exceptional dedication to the SMVCA.

Standing from left: Myrna Smith, C&D Bonding,

Melanie Smith, CIT, R.W. Scott Construction Co.

Heather Gray, Gray Electrical Engineering,

Wendi Patterson, United Staffing Associates

Sitting from left: Denise Riegel, CIT, and Joan

Hertel, CIT, Westberg White Architects

NAWIC and the Central Coast Chapter was well received at the Contractors annual Crab Crack. C&D Bonding (Myrnas company) received the special Alan Kyle Award for contributions to the SMVCA. (Note: Past member, Jeani Kyle of 30 years ago, Alans daughter, introduced member Denise Riegel to NAWIC!)

February General Membership Meeting Yolanda Clark,

Quintron Systems, started the

meeting with the Flag Salute and a

great inspirational message

General Meeting Highlights

The winner of the First Responder award was Joan Hertel, CIT

President Donna discussed the changes in the Standing Rules

Wendi Patterson announced plans for WIC Week Marcia Papich reported that three members attended

the SLO Builders Exchange Crab Feed Joan Hertel reported on the SMVCAs Annual Crab

Crack . Delegates elected for Forum 2014 are Wendi

Patterson and Donna Castaneda Members elected Joan Hertel, Yolanda Clark and

Denise Riegel to the Nominating Committee Laurie Evans won the raffle prize

Heather Gray presented slides highlighting the steps she took to

start her own electrical engineering firm, GECE, and invited attendees to her Open House with the Santa

Maria Chamber on March 13.

Donna Randolph, State Farm Insurance, shared how she began in the insurance business and eventually became the owner starting with six employees. Donna will be emceeing a conference sponsored by Allan Hancock Col-lege focusing on new business start ups.

Lisa Sprague, Ayres Group, shared our progress on the Membership

Contest

Wendi Patterson, United Staffing Associates, and Chapter WIC Week Chair, invites everyone to attend Tapit - Tri Tip Thursday, a Meet and

Greet co sponsored with the San Luis Obispo County Builders Exchange to celebrate Women

in Construction Week March 6 at 5:30 p.m.

Contact Information NAWIC NEWS

Please send all articles and content recom-mendations for this chapter to Joan Hertel

by the 15th of each month at jhertel@wwarch.com

WEBSITE

Visit our website at nawiccentralcoast.net

FACEBOOK

Connect with us on Facebook at

http://facebook.com/NAWIC-California-Central-Coast-Chapter

IDEAS FOR OUR CHAPTER?

Contact the board members listed on the

front page of this newsletter if you have any ideas for the future of our chapter.

MAILING ADDRESS

NAWIC P.O. Box 8841

Santa Maria, CA 93456

CONTACT INFO UPDATE

Members can update contact information through the member center which can be found after signing in at www.nawic.org.

Committees

Foster Teens Donna Castaneda, CIT and Melanie Smith, CIT Facebook Heather Gray Heather@GECELLC.com Newsletter Joan Hertel, CIT jhertel@wwarch.com

Membership - Donna Castaneda, CIT, for Lisa Sprague

Lisas working hard getting all crafts covered on our Membership Building. Please contact her if your company name isnt on her list. If you havent been at a meeting lately, please email her so we can in-clude your company. We welcomed some new guests to this meeting. Lisa brought her new employee, Tamara Casey; Heather brought her husband, Eryn; Wendi brought one of her co-workers, Yolanda Hernandez with United Staffing; Marie Thompson with Moreland Electric came back AND we got to visit with former member, Michelle Shipman with Searchlight Properties. Always a pleasure to see new faces AND old friends.

Website Joan Hertel, CIT jhertel@wwarch.com Membership Lisa Sprague lisa@ayresgroup.net Marketing / PR Wendi Patterson wendi.patterson@unitedwestaff.com

March Birthdays

Patricia Northern - 7th

Yolanda Clark - 19th