El
Pueblo Boys' & Girl's Ranch
Association
Advancement - Community Service Project
Working
shoulder to shoulder, members and staff of the Colorado Contractors
Association (CCA) and residents, staff and board members of El Pueblo
Boys and Girls Ranch laid 45,000 square feet – 8,000 rolls -- of sod
to complete the first multi-purpose field and track for the 108 boys
and girls that reside at the ranch, an adolescent treatment community
in
Pueblo
,
Colorado
.
The new track and field was a gift of CCA’s
Association Advancement Committee, which selects a charitable project
recipient every year as a way to demonstrate the unity of the
construction industry and the community.
The committee selected the El Pueblo Boys' and Girls'
Ranch in March as the recipient of their 2004 gift, and made it their
goal to create a field that could be used as an outlet for physical
activities like flag football and soccer, along with a track to run
laps. “This was one of
the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by CCA’s Association
Advancement Committee,” said CCA President Ben Connell. “We
mobilized considerable resources during the different phases of the
project, including dozens of pieces of heavy construction equipment,
truckloads of materials, and many, many hours of skilled labor, all of
which were donated by our members.”
The project, which took six weekends to complete, included laying 60 tons of structural fill beneath
the track, laying cement for the track curb, compacting and laying
recycled asphalt millings for the track surface. The field also
includes a fully functional sprinkler system. The project culminated
on Saturday, May 15 when, after two rain delays, the volunteers laid
the sod on the field. Joe Wingerter, chair of the Association
Advancement committee shared that “It was absolutely fantastic to
see this project come together, and we all enjoyed working
side-by-side with the kids living at the ranch. We want them to know
that we are people that care about them.”
Prior to
building this multi-purpose field and track, the children at the ranch
were taken off-site to nearby parks or school for recreational
activities. “One of the anchors of our program is the recreation and
leisure piece,” said Patty Erjavec, CEO and President of El Pueblo.
“Now we finally have a site on-campus….this is such a wonderful
gift.” El Pueblo
currently serves 108 “at risk” boys and girls between the ages of
10-18.
List of Contributing
Companies to the Project
(A majority of
the companies below are members of the Colorado Contractors Association)
American Civil
Constructors, Inc.
Biasi Trucking
CCA Association Council
Colorado Business Bank
Colorado
Machinery
Demand Construction Services, Inc
EEC Rental Corporation
El Pomar Foundation
KC Readi Mix
Kiewit Western Co.
LaFarge Aggregate
LaFarge Corporation
Montano Concrete Corporation
Power Equipment Company
Ramsour Trucking and Consulting
Recycled Materials Co., Inc.
Rice and Rice, Inc.
Siegel Oil Company
Solid Earth Landscape Design and Construction, Inc.
Southwest Sod Farms
Sunstate Equipment
K.R. Swerdfeger Construction, Inc.
Wagner Equipment Co.
Wells
Fargo
Western Fleet Services, Inc.
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