Executive Board made up of President– Linda LaCroix of Aspen Construction Services; 1st Vice President– Don Glendenning of Glendenning LLC;  2nd Vice President— Kevin Durkee of Durkee Insurance Agency; Secretary–Jeff Larson of Gilmore Home Center; Treasurer– Gene Hathaway of Hathaway Construction;

And Board of Directors- Stewart Barker of Stewart Barker Builder; Justus Cameron of The McKernon Group; Jeff Fowler of Stafford Technical Center; Dave Fucci of The Fucci Company; Jeff Gephart of Vermont Star Homes, a program of Efficiency Vermont;

Brian Harrington of Harrington Custom Building; Scott Moore of Johnson Energy Inc.;

Scott Raymond of Sherwin-Williams Co. Paints; Jerry Stearns of Stearns Electric.

Life Directors–Joe Giancola of Giancola Construction & Real Estate; Jim Mumford, Sr.  

Also presented during the evening were these special awards: 

Associate of the Year— LaValley Building Supply

Builder of the Year— Glendenning LLC

Congratulations to all of these special award winners; to all of the other prize winners drawn during the Holiday party; and to the winners of the 14th Annual HBRA-SV Raffle as follows: 

1st Place~$500—Joanie Alden; 2nd Place~$250—Peter Giancola; $50 seller of most tickets–Brian Godnick.

The Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Southern Vermont is an organization of builders, suppliers, and associated businesses whose main purpose is to support and educate the building industry, the community and its members.  Come join us with free admission for our 15^th Annual Home & Recreation Show on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at Spartan Arena (behind the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland, VT) from 9:00am until 3:00pm.  Exhibitor space for the show is still available.  For more information about the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Southern Vermont, call or fax (802)773-0672,  send an email to cvthomebuilders@yahoo.com, or check us out on the web at www.cvthomebuilders.com.

We are pleased to accept entries for our 13th Annual Excellence in Housing Awards to be held on February 15, 2012. These awards recognize the outstanding projects completed by our builder members!  We also encourage Associate members to enter “best feature by an associate member”, as well as all members to enter for “best website” and “best marketing piece”. 

There will be a power point presentation at the awards banquet where all entries will be viewed and winners highlighted.  We will send out press releases to newspapers in our membership area, and if you win, will send one specific to your business to the paper of your choice.  You will also be listed on our website and mentioned in our monthly E-newsletter, where winners will be featured.   Entrants must be HBRA-SV members.  Deadline for entry has been extended to January 27th!

We really lucked out with the weather..and that Route 4 opened up the Friday before the tourney!

Congratulations to:

1st gross team:  Kinney Pike Insurance team

   Greg McClallen, Mike Hickey, Jake Obar, Vic Shappy

1st net team:  Gilmore Home Center team

   Scott Larson, Matt Misencik, Ken Rice, Chipper Vanderminden

2nd gross team:  Fucci Co. team

   Dave Fucci, Jerry Stearns, Scott Brileya, Dan Tricarico

2nd net team:  Godnick’s Grand Furniture team

   Jeff Godnick, Steve Doheny, Mark Brilling, Gene Choppa

Closest to the pin

   Men:  Kevin Birchmore

   Women:  Linda LaCroix

Longest drive

   Men:  Mark Noble

   Women:  Linda LaCroix

Shoot out contest:  Jeff Larson

Putting Contest:  Ron Slusarczyk

(runner up Seth Birkheimer)