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State Fair Masonry Apprentice Contest
The State Fair Masonry Apprentice Contest was held in Raleigh, N.C. The new champion is 18-year-old Marcus Guy Hefner, an apprentice with McGee Brothers Company of Monroe, N.C.
Pictured above, from left to right: contest head judge, Doug Burton; third-place winner Chris Sparks, Beam Construction Company; first-place winner, Marcus Guy Hefner, McGee Brothers Company; second-place winner, Joaquin Luauno, Capital City Masonry; contest chairman Calvin Brodie, and N.C. Commissioner of Labor Cherie K. Berry.
For more information, please visit www.ncmca.com.
Orlando
The Mason Contractors Association of America's (MCAA) Masonry Showcase will be held in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 22-24, 2007.
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Home of the 2007 Masonry Showcase
MASONRY
MCAA's Masonry Showcase is well known as the show "Where the Industry Meets" This year's event brings a whole new meaning to this statement. MCAAs expanded education seminars, event programming and exhibit floor will once again attract the best of the nation's mason contractors, like you, to join together and shape our industry's direction.
The biggest highlight of the Masonry Showcase 2007 is the concurrent annual show and convention of the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA). NCMA's members are your manufacturers and suppliers, and they will be gathered during the same period at the adjacent convention center featuring their exhibits at the MCPX show. Throughout the week, there will be
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