Posts by Ryan Shaver

“NCMCA Kingston Plantation 2023 Convention” The NCMCA annual convention was a huge success at Kingston Plantation in Myrtle Beach, SC! We had over 225 people in attendance with 67 member companies represented! Kingston Plantation has been a popular destination for past conventions and this year was great as anticipated! The line-up of events was slightly…

“The Super Bowl of Apprentice    Contest” KINSTON—Colson Childers of Griffin Masonry is the 2023 Champion of the North Carolina Masonry Contractors Associations Annual    Samuel A. McGee Memorial Masonry Apprentice Skills Contest and takes home the “David R. Sigmon Award” for “top-score” in the     competition.  His win also earned a thousand-dollar cash prize and a large…

Israel Burgarin of Columbus Career & College Academy is the 2023 Champion of the North Carolina SkillsUSA State Conference Masonry Competition held in April at the Greensboro Coliseum.  Pictured, top, left to right, NCMCA Executive Vice President Ryan Shaver; NCMCA President-Elect and Apprenticeship & Training Committee Chair Cliff McGee; Fifth Place Finisher Mason Ridenhour, East…

In March, Adams/Oldcastle and the NCMCA Eastern Carolina Chapter hosted the Annual Lineburner and Top Trowel competition in Goldsboro.   Pictured left to right, winners of the Masonry 2 “Top Trowel” competition: Fifth Place, Gaby Key, Columbus Career & College Academy; Fourth Place, Kris Nelson, White Oak High School; First Place, Israel Bugarin, Columbus Career &…

In February Chandler Concrete in Salisbury hosted as seventy masonry students from twelve high schools participated in the SkillsUSA North Carolina Southwest Regional Masonry Competition.  Pictured, winners of the Masonry II contest left to right, Third Place finisher Nicholas Sloop and First Place finisher O’Connor Leonard both of West Rowan High School, and Second Place…

Masonry instructor, NCMCA member, and past president of the North Carolina Masonry Instructors Association, Rodney Harrington (right,) is “Career & Technical Instruction (CTE) Teacher of the Year” at West Rowan High School.  Harrington’s masonry students have won numerous awards including National SkillsUSA Masonry Championships awarded to Luke Dutton (2015,) Ashton White (2018 and 2019,) Grant…

In January, Donnie Williams (pictured) of DRP Masonry, Monroe, Louisiana, joined Tom Vacala of Restore Masonry, Chicago, and Jameel Ervin of W.B.F. Construction, Evergreen Park, Illinois, to present the Mason Contractors Association of America’s “Foreman Development Course #101” in Greensboro at McGee Brothers Company for NCMCA participants.  The January session was the first in a…

At the February meeting of the Raleigh Chapter, left to right, Joshua Ibarra, Brodie Contractors, and David Bass, Whitman Masonry, were recognized with Mortar Net Solutions apprentice scholarships; David Moser, Concept Masonry, and Bill Marsh, Hydro Rents Carolina, received NCMCA Masonry Contractor Certification Program “Certified Masonry Professional” certificates; Martin Sandoval, Pinnacle Masonry, was also recognized…

Christian Kluttz (left,) an apprentice with Huntley Brothers Company of Mint Hill, is the winner of the 2023 Mason Contractors Association of America (MCAA) Masonry Skills Challenge, Third Year Division, held at the Las Vegas World of Concrete in January.  He is pictured with Chet Huntley of Huntley Brothers Company.  Kluttz, a former Mount Pleasant…

The team of, left to right, Konner Klingenberg, Jimmy Wall, Doug Burton, and Drew Burton are the winners of the three-day Twenty-Third Annual NCMCA Raleigh Chapter “Murdell” Golf Tournament held in January along the Grand Strand of South Carolina.  Event Chairman Doug Burton says, “Twenty-third trip for us to Murdell and we have raised (more…