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 Donn Eide The 2002 construction season is over. I can’t say that it was a great year, but I am proud of our people for the jobs that they did in a difficult market. The production levels, on a whole, exceeded expectations, making the bottom line come out better than expected. Thanks to Steve Armstong, Dennis Pfentz, Curt Chambers, along with their crews, for making this possible. We were short of work all year until we started the Jasper County Projects. Prior to this, the crews were only working 4 days per week. When we started the Jasper County work, they were able to work 5-6 days per week. During September we had plans to start a job in Guthrie County, but due to job tonnage increases and bad weather in October, we were lucky to finish the Jasper County work! Being able to carry over the Guthrie job should help us get a jump on things next season. This job is approximately 60,000 tons of HMA and includes milling the entire project. We will then widen and overlay it. Next week brings us the APAI convention. Part of this convention is to bring recognition to the best jobs in about 10 different categories. I am proud to say that Manatt’s will be getting the County Resurfacing Smoothness Award for our project in Benton County. We will also be getting the County Resurfacing Smoothness Award for the Sully Haul Road project in Jasper County! Congratulations to everyone that was involved in these projects. To all of the Manatt’s employees and your families, I would like to wish you Happy Holidays! I hope to see everyone in the spring of 2003!
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