The Listening Post Texas Lathing & Plastering Contractors Association

Volume XIII—2016 December 2016

ANNUAL LARRY TRUSTY MEMORIAL FISHING TOURNAMENT

The Annual Fall Weekend Larry Trusty Memorial Fishing Tournament was held September 16—17, 2016 at lake Tawa-

koni. The fishing group met Friday night for dinner at Car-

mona’s Tex-Mex. Tournament, lunch and awards presenta-

tion took place on Saturday.

The Fishing Committee consisted of Joe Kerlee (Quikrete

Co.), Charlie Meador (Texas Stucco Supply), and Randy Newman (Silver Star Plastering). The Committee would like

to thank all members who helped sponsor both the Annual

Clay Shooting Event and Fishing tournament.

Member participants of the fishing tournament were: Adams

Supply of Dallas, Boral Building Products, EZ Wall Concen-

trate, K-Lath/Tree Island Steel, Quikrete Co., Silver Star Plas-tering, Southwest Lath & Plaster, Texas Stucco Supply, Trian-

gle Plastering and WPL / Keene Bldg. Products.

Trophies and cash prizes were awarded for the 1st Place Big

Fish, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Heavy Stringer. Congratulations

to all winners. Lisa Williams won the 1st Place Big Fish. Tom Jordon won 1st Place Heavy Stringer, Lisa Williams

won 2nd Place Heavy Stringer and Bob Koplen won 3rd Place

Heavy Stringer.

Thank you Texas Stucco Supply for being the Platinum Spon-

sor for both Fall Weekend events.

Additional funds were raised by raffling a $500 gift card and

the winner was Lisa Williams.

2016 Fall Weekend

Platinum Sponsor

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2016—2017 OFFICERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Tanner Spears

Griesenbeck Distribution Group

Houston, TX

VICE-PRESIDENT

Chad Dupree

Diversified Plastering

Houston, TX

SECRETARY-TREASURER

Andy Boyd

Galindo & Boyd Wall Systems

Garland, TX

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Todd Hunt

J&E Masonry

Richland Hills, TX

DIRECTORS

Bruce Honore, III

Precision Development

Houston, TX

David Long

Baker Triangle

Mesquite, TX

Kevin Maxwell

Prime Wall Systems, LLC

Hutto, TX

Flavio Ronzani

Ronzani, Inc., dba RONPARCO

Euless, TX

Alternate Director

Randy Newman

Silver Star Plastering

Garland, TX

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS

Rick Durham

EZ Wall Concentrate

Dallas, TX

Cole Hord

WPL / Keene Building Products

Dallas, TX

Joe Kerlee

Quikrete Companies

Watauga, TX

Mark Koski

Quikrete Companies

McKinney, TX

Alternate Associate Director

Charlie Meador

Texas Stucco Supply

Dallas, TX

(left to right: Charlie Meador, Joe Kerlee, Mark Koski, Rick

Durham, Flavio Ronzani, Cole Hord, Chad Dupree, Andy

Boyd, Tanner Spears)

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Dear TLPCA Membership,

It is hard to believe that Christmas is almost

upon us and before you

know it we will be ush-

ering in 2017! As we roll into the Christmas

Season I am thankful

for so many things.

The health and happi-

ness of my family, friends and colleagues,

the ability to live and

work in a free country,

the prosperity sur-rounding our current

market conditions and

most importantly the Grace provided by my

Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am also reminded that there

are many families that are not so fortunate which makes the

Christmas Season very hard. I hope you are all able to take time to count your blessings as well as find time to give back

to some of those who are less fortunate.

Things do slow down a bit in December, but I did want to

bring a few things to your attention:

1. We are in the beginning works of planning the educa-tion portion of the 2017 Convention. We could use

your help by providing any Houston Architect, GC

and code official contacts to help us advertise the CE courses and the trade show. An email will be going

out with more information very soon.

2. We just completed our first scaffold training session

in Dallas with a total of 48 members receiving a cer-tificate of attendance. The group was made up of 29

members and 19 non-members. We are looking to

host similar events in Houston and Austin very soon. Special thanks to Rick Durham with EZ Wall

Concentrate for coordinating this and Joe Vecera

with Safway Services for providing a discounted rate to attendees.

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Year.

We look forward to big things for the TLPCA in 2017 and

appreciate the continued support of our members to make them a reality.

Tanner Spears

2016—2017 TLPCA President

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NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER

Sesco Cement

8510 E. Sam Houston Pkwy.

Houston, TX 77044

Phone: (281) 582-1584 (Ext. 200)

FAX:

Web: www.sescocement.com

E-mail: m.sameh@sescocement.us

Mohamed Sameh, Managing Director

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SCAFFOLD TRAINING CLASS

HELD IN DALAS

TLPCA held a Scaffold Training class November

19th at Adams Supply of Dallas. This four-hour

class was taught in both English and Spanish by

Safway Services for a discounted price of $75/per

person.

The Dallas Class consisted of 22 students and was

opened to non-members as well. Future classes

will be held in Houston and Austin some time in

2017.

Thank you to EZ Wall Concentrate and Adams

Supply of Dallas for providing lunch for the stu-

dents and the class location.

Feb. 8, 2017 TLPCA Board Meeting Marek’s Office

Houston, TX

Mar. 26—30, 2017 AWCI Convention + Intex Expo 2017 Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino

Las Vegas, NV

Apr. 6, 2017 * Spring Golf Tournament Coyote Ridge Golf Club

* Annual Luncheon Carrollton, TX

* TLPCA Board Meeting

June 15, 2017 TLPCA Board Meeting Hyatt Regency Galleria

Houston, TX

P A G E 5 V O L U M E X I I I — 2 0 1 6

Texas Lathing & Plastering Contractors Association P. O. Box 152282

Arlington, TX 76015

Phone: (817) 461-0676 Fax: (817) 461-0686

www.tlpca.org info@tlpca.org

***SAVE THE DATE***

June 14—16, 2017 Annual Convention

& Trade Show Hyatt Regency Houston Galleria

2626 Sage Road

Houston, TX 77056

https://houstongalleria.regency.hyatt.com/en/

hotel/home.html