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TCAPWA EVENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS Rounding out the
meeting were Lee Shaffer
West Branch from page 25 and Joseph Norris, owner of
Precision Concrete Cutting.
people we serve can go without any Schaffer discussed their
inconvenience to their daily lives. With precision concrete cutting
all the different directions families are technique that provides
pulled in, worrying about clean water, trip-hazard repair for
functioning sewer and smooth streets uneven sidewalks and other
should not be on their minds.” concrete walkways across
North America. Precision
Speaking after Lovett were Sam Watson Concrete Cutting services
and Gordon McIntyre, President of Alabama and Tennessee
Williams Equipment. Watson discussed and assists municipalities
improving maintenance efficiency with a cost-effective Joseph Norris, Daniel Lovett, Lee Shaffer, John Fox and Sam Watson
through new technologies and equipment. and efficient method of with the collected canned goods and cooler provided by Atoka.
Williams Equipment also staged several
pieces of equipment displayed in the front restoring sidewalks to ADA off to attendees who brought in canned
parking lot of the Town Hall. Members compliance. Schaffer discussed in detail food items in support of this quarter’s
were given the opportunity to look at their method of repairing sidewalks as it
it and watch it operate. Equipment on compared to other available techniques canned-food drive.
display included a Bobcat track skid steer, and showed how the Precision Concrete Attendees brought over 50 canned food
an Avant articulating loader with bucket Cutting methods are among the most
attachment, and a Ring-O-Matic vacuum efficient, environmentally clean and cost- items to the meeting. They were donated
excavator. During his presentation, effective solutions available in the market to the Warriors Center Memphis Rescue
Watson talked about the advantage today. Mission, a Memphis-based nonprofit that
of utilizing a vacuum excavator when Attendees were provided with lunch offers a one-year faith-based residential
excavating near and around gas lines to recovery program for men, women and
mitigate the hazards gas lines pose during sponsored by Williams Equipment and veterans needing long-term assistance,
normal excavation and highlighted the Precision Concrete Cutting. Restaurant including food, housing, recovery support,
versatility of the Avant, with over 100 gift cards were provided by Eddie Yaun educational assistance, job training and
various attachments making it a cost- from Stringfellow Equipment, and a large pastoral care. For more information on the
efficient and effective tool for a wide range Warriors Center Memphis Rescue Mission,
of maintenance activities. cooler from the Town of Atoka was raffled visit http://www.warriorscenter.org.
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