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Building Operators Association of Colorado
$3.00 www.boac-colorado.org November 2011
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Inside This Issue . . .
Denver—Carbon Monoxide Prevention Starts at the Source
Colorado Springs— Tools of The Trade & The Clay Shoot (don’t miss it)!
Thanksgiving in North America: From Local Harvests to National Holiday
VOA Painting Party
AFEC Show Wrap Up
10th Annual BOAC Charity Sporting Clay Shoot & Bird Hunt
WHEN: Friday, November 18th Where: Rocky Mountain Roosters
Click here for COMPLETE information or Call
HOT/SHOT Infrared is hiring an entry level position as a panel puller. We are looking for mechanically inclined individuals who are
willing to travel from time to time and are physically able to handle the removal and replacement of electrical panels that can weigh up to 50 lbs. Advancement opportunities exist. Pay ranges from $10.00 - $14.00 per
hour depending on experience. Please email your resume to [email protected].
Topic: Carbon Monoxide Prevention Starts at
the Source—William D. Mele, CIEC Chemistry and Industrial Hygiene, Inc.
Where: Plaza Tower One 6400 S Fiddlers Green Circle Greenwood Village PARKING VALIDATION When: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Check in 11:00 am
Cost: $20.00/members $25.00/non-members
RSVP: November 11, 2010 5:00 pm.
Reservations: On web site, [email protected] or
303-374-8888
Denver Chapter Monthly Meeting
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Almost any fuel fired appliance has the potential
to impact human health and well being through
the generation of carbon monoxide gas. Most CO
exposures occur not as a result of a single failure,
but through an unlikely combination of mishaps
that compound a problem resulting in an accident
This seminar will instruct the participants in identifying the various CO sources, understanding their proper operations and control measures and recognizing potential pitfalls, defects and upset conditions before an accident occurs. William Mele is a Senior Engineer with Chemistry and Industrial Hygiene, Inc. in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He has been employed in the HVAC industry in Denver for 38 years now, spending almost equal time as a contractor, wholesale supplier, and finally as a consultant. He has extensive experience in building mechanical s ystems, air filtration systems and contamination control applications along with numerous indoor air quality and microbial investigations.
VENDER SPOTLIGHT
Nov - Associated Building Specialties Jan - Rocky Mtn. Mechanical Feb. - Energy Services of CO Mar. - McDonald Waterproofing Apr. - Expert Cooling Tower May - City Lighting June - Weathersure July - A1 Chipseal Sept - Supertech Filter
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Colorado Springs Chapter Monthly Meeting
Upcoming Meetings: December 8th – Electrical Projects Speaker: Dean Wemmer, Pikes Peak Regional Building Department .
Topic: Tools of the Trade
Speaker: Jared Rodman, Grainger
When: Thursday, Nov. 10th, 11:30 am
Where: Antler’s Grille Executive Board Room
Cost: $20.00 First Time Visitors- FREE
RSVP: Joel Copley at 719-599-3900 or email to [email protected]
Jared Rodman of Grainger will be presenting on ways that supply warehouse companies can help building engineers track parts and inventory. He will also talk about tools that help you run a more efficient building and make your job easier See you there.
-Kevin
Thank you to all our AFEC volunteers at this year's show. We really couldn't make the show a success with
you! I especially want to thank those of you who volunteered at the registration desk. Several of you donated multiple days
of your time and I really needed the help. You time was so appreciated!
AWESOME Registration Desk Volunteers: Amber Bullock - TRS - 2 Days Misty - TRS - 2 Days Shelia Barbree - DPC Development - 2 Days Erica - Air Filter Solutions - 1/2 Day Heather Frazier - BOAC - 1/2 Day Morris Archuletta - First Range Contract - 1/2 Day Sam Marcus - Colorado Studios - 1/2 Day Sherri P'ea - American Mechanical - 1/2 Day Brian Remington - Cushman Wakefield - 1/2 Day Dale Southworth - Infrared Services - 1/2 Day
FABULOUS BOAC Booth Volunteers: Alan Rice - Centennial Realty Joe Kline - McDonald Waterproofing Billy Bratton - BOAC Jim Wessels - Callahan Management Mike Walker - Cushman Wakefield Kevin Donnelly - Oracle Dale Southworth - Infrared Services Kevin Walsh - Embassy Suites Seth Strini - Avery Paving Pete Holt - CRW, Inc. Sarah Hanus - Conservawatt Randy Adrian - Transwestern Brian Niss - Air Filter Solutions Rob Cooney - Preferred Painting Tom Persichetti - ABM / Legacy Partners Brian Botcher - FAS Jack Kaufman - Callahan Management Bill Rogers - Transwestern
AFEC Show Wrap Up
Natasha Raabe and Amanda Wentz
from the
Brandon Center
receiving $8000
donation from Pat Gorham,
CBRE, Denver Treasurer
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Thanksgiving in North America: From Local Harvests to National Holiday Most Americans are familiar with the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving Feast of 1621, but few realize that it was not the first festival of its kind in North America. Long before Europeans set foot in the Americas, native peoples sought to insure a good harvest with dances and rituals such as the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokees. The first Thanksgiving service known to be held by Europeans in North America occurred on May 27, 1578 in Newfoundland, although earlier Church-type services were probably held by Spaniards in La Florida. However, for British New England, some historians believe that the Popham Colony in Maine conducted a Thanksgiving service in 1607 (see Sources: Greif, 208-209; Gould, and Hatch). In the same year, Jamestown colonists gave thanks for their safe arrival, and another service was held in 1610 when a supply ship arrived after a harsh winter. Berkley Hundred settlers held a Thanksgiving service in accordance with their charter which stated that the day of their arrival in Virginia should be observed yearly as a day of Thanksgiving, but within a few years an Indian uprising ended further services (Dabney). Thus British colonists held several Thanksgiving services in America before the Pilgrim's celebration in 1621. The Pilgrims, with a puritanical rejection of public religious display, held a non-religious Thanksgiving feast, aside from saying grace. In fact, they seem to have used the three days for feasting, playing games, and even drinking liquor. In 1623, the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts, held another day of Thanksgiving. As a drought was destroying their crops, colonists prayed and fasted for relief; the rains came a few days later. And not long after, Captain Miles Standish arrived with staples and news that a Dutch supply ship was on its way. Because of all this good fortune, colonists held a day of Thanksgiving and prayer on June 30. This 1623 festival appears to have been the origin of our Thanksgiving Day because it com-bined a religious and social celebration. Festivals of Thanksgiving were observed sporadically on a local level for more than 150 years. They tended to be autumn harvest celebrations. But in 1789, Elias Boudinot, Massachusetts, member of the House of Representatives, moved that a day of Thanksgiving be held to thank God for giving the Ameri-can people the opportunity to create a Constitution to preserve their hard won freedoms. A Congres-sional Joint Committee approved the motion, and informed President George Washington. On October 3, 1789, the President proclaimed that the people of the United States observe "a day of public thanks-giving and prayer" on Thursday, the 26th of November. The next three Presidents proclaimed, at most, two days of thanksgiving sometime during their terms of office, either on their own initiative or at the request of a joint Resolution of Congress. One exception was Thomas Jefferson, who believed it was a conflict of church and state to require the American peo-ple hold a day of prayer and thanksgiving. President James Madison proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to be held on April 13, 1815, the last such proclamation issued by a President until Abraham Lincoln did so in 1862. Most of the credit for the establishment of an annual Thanksgiving holiday may be given to Sarah Jo-sepha Hale. Editor of Ladies Magazine and Godey's Lady's Book, she began to agitate for such a day in
1827 by printing articles in the magazines. She also published stories and recipes, and wrote scores of letters to governors, senators, and presidents. After 36 years of crusading, she won her battle. On Octo-ber 3, 1863, buoyed by the Union victory at Gettysburg, President Lincoln proclaimed that November 26, would be a national Thanksgiving Day, to be observed every year on the fourth Thursday of Novem-ber. Only twice has a president changed the day of observation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in order to give depression-era merchants more selling days before Christmas, assigned the third Thursday to be Thanksgiving Day in 1939 and 1940. But he was met with popular resistance, largely because the change required rescheduling Thanksgiving Day events such as football games and parades. In 1941, a Congressional Joint Resolution officially set the fourth Thursday of November as a national holiday for Thanksgiving.Today, Thanksgiving is a time when many families come together, and many churches are open for special services. We have both Native Americans and immigrants to thank for the opportunity to observe a day of thanksgiving.
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Sources: Bradford, William. Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement 1608-1650. Valerian Paget, ed. (New York: John McBride Co., 1909), and his Of Ply-
mouth Plantation 1620-1647. Samuel Eliot. ed. (New York: Knopf, 1979.) Also, Bradford and Winslow. Mourt's Relation: Journall of the English
Plantation at Plimoth. University Microfilms, Inc., 1966.
Greif, Martin. The Holiday Book. (New York: Universe Books, 1978).
Hatch, Jane M. The American Book of Days, 3rd ed. (New York: Wilson Co., 1978).
Linton, Ralph and Adelin. We Gather Together: The Story of Thanksgiving. (New York: Henry Schuman, 1949).
Myers, Robert. Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays. (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1972).
Saturday Evening Post. "A Setting for the First Thanksgiving," by Virginius Dabney, 253 (November 1981), 12, 14, 88, 118; and "Who Says They Were
First?" by John Gould, 231 (November 1958), 39, 112, 115-6.
Schaun, George and Virginia. American Holidays and Special Days. (Lanham: Maryland Historical Press, 1986).
Scherer, Margaret R. Thanksgiving and Harvest Festivals. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942).
Sickel, H.S.J. Thanksgiving: Its Source, Philosophy, and History with all National Proclamations and Analytical Study Thereof . (Philadelphia: Interna-
tional Printing Co., 1940).
Thomson, Lucy Gertsch. How Holidays Happened. (Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1976).
Transcription of George Washington's Proclamation:
By the President of the United States of America--
A Proclamation Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his
benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor--and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their Joint Committee
requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by ac-
knowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peace-
ably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States
to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be--
That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his
providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and
plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish consti-
tutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and
religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general
for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations
and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions--to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to per-
form our several and relative duties properly and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by
constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect
and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good govern-
ment, peace, and concord--To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us--and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be
best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go. Washington
Return Prepared by the Division of Cultural History,
National Museum of American History,
in cooperation with the Public Inquiry Mail Service,
Smithsonian Institution PIMS/COM07/2-92
Rev 3/98
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BOAC Community Service
Your Denver BOAC Board hard at work!
Kim Lewis
Hot/Shot Infrared Wayne Summers
Jeppesen
Brian Botcher
FAS
Nick Lewis
This past month BOAC held it's BOAC Denver Board VOA day. We painted the doors on the
3rd floor of the Brandon Center (this facility helps battered women & their children). The
following people attended that day: Harry Gor-ham, Brian Botcher, Wayne Summers, Kim
Lewis & Nick Lewis. We can always use more help for small or large projects at the Brandon Center & the Theodora House. If you want to
help out or want to put a group together, please contact Harry Gorham at
BOAC P.O. Box 2559 Denver, CO 80201
November 2011 Newsletter Please Expedite
President Mitch Wibbels
719-491-7088
Vice President Paul Ritter
719-473-8200
Chapter Secretary Open
Chapter Treasurer Joel Copley
719-599-3900 Kevin Donnley 719-757-3020
Colorado Springs Board Chair Kim Lewis
303-232-0090
Vice Chair Billy Bratton 303-913-2583
State Secretary Mary McAllister 303-573-9000
State Treasurer Michael Benoit 303-573-9000
State Contractor Heather Frazier [email protected]
Phone 303-374-8888
Fax 1-888-316-1896
Committee Member Harry Gorham
State Board
Denver Board
President Mike Walker
303-221-4644
Vice President Brian Smith
720-344-6654
Chapter Secretary Brian Botcher
303-466-8800 Chapter Treasurer Pat Gorham
303-804-4703 Speaker Chair Wayne Summers
303-419-6128
