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Seaside 3-year-old cancer survivor granted wish to be a builder
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Cancer survivor, 3, granted wish to be a builderBy Kara Guzman Santa Cruz SentinelAROMAS >> Before a cheering crowd, 3-year-old cancer survivor Renzo Lombardi rode a bulldozer in his dad's lap Tuesday morning at the Graniterock A.R. Wilson Quarry.The toddler, cancer free, spent three hours moving piles of gravel and climbing atop heavy machinery, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Renzo was chauffeured from his Seaside home to the Aromas quarry in a 100-ton dump truck, strapped ... Read More
Another View: Transportation coffer is running on empty
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Republished from the Sacramento BeeByJim Earp and Will Kempton Special to The BeePublished: Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2014 - 12:00 amDan Waltersgot it partly right but was wrong to suggest that efforts to redirect truck weight fees to pay for road and highway work undermine a users-pay principle, (“Road users should pay for projects,”Dan Walters,May 30).In fact, these levies are a quintessential user fee since heavier vehicles, which cause more damage to roadways, pay to mitigate that ... Read More
Rock Solid
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After more than a century in business, Graniterock understands when and how to successfully upgrade to the newest version of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Solutionsby Alan Joch, May, 2014When tradition meets reinvention, amazing things can happen. That’s a lesson four generations of leaders at Graniterock have been learning since the start of the twentieth century. Headquartered in Watsonville, California, the company survived and helped the region recover from the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906. It ... Read More
SB 1270 Proposes Significant California Mining Reform
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Editor's Note:SB 1270 (Pavley), a bill to significantly rewrite the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA), was recently introduced byCalifornia State Senator Fran Pavley (D-Santa Monica), who chairs the Senate Natural Resources Committee. The bill would, among other provisions, transfer traditional authority of local government to a newly created State Mine Inspector office at the Department of Conservation. It also creates an uncapped fee based on disturbed acres, subjects the quarterly 3098 aggregate approval list to ... Read More
Graniterock Celebrates 114 Years in Business
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by Amanda BayhiAggregates Manager, February 13, 2014Valentine’s Day is typically celebrated as a day of love, but one manufacturer has another reason to celebrate. California-based manufacturer Graniterock celebrates its 114th anniversary on Feb. 14. Graniterock spokesperson Keith Severson says the manufacturer — which produces aggregates, concrete, asphalt and construction materials — got its start at a large granite deposit next to a railroad in Aromas, California in the late 1800s and early 1900s. A.R. Wilson Quarry ... Read More
Making Up Watsonville's Bedrock - Graniterock a Mainstay for 114 Years
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By Todd Guild of the Register-PajaronianThe siren warning that a blast was imminent at Graniterock’s A.R. Wilson Quarry Tuesday came two minutes before 25,000 pounds of explosive would hammer loose a landslide of rocks and boulders. When the time came, electronic timers ignited 74 explosive charges, sending a massive cloud of stone and dirt into the air. This was followed by the roar and rumble as the rock tumbled into the quarry.Far from the dramatic explosions ... Read More
Big Sur rock shed a dramatic covering for Highway 1
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Tunnel-like structure, bridge open on Highway 1From the Montery Herald, January 16, 2014In the final months before both lanes of Highway 1 at Pitkins Curve were reopened south of Big Sur, workers noticed a different reaction from drivers waiting their turn at the traffic control light."People would get out of their cars and take pictures. No one was yelling," said Wayne Walker, an associate engineer with Caltrans.The Rain Rocks Rock Shed, which officially opened Wednesday, was ... Read More
Hike in California "Car Tax" Would Raise Up to $4 Billion
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Hike in California 'car tax' would raise up to $4 billion Sacramento Bee -- A proposed ballot measure to more than double California's vehicle license fee would raise $3 billion to $4 billion annually for state and local transportation programs, according to estimates by the Legislative Analyst's Office. Both versions of the proposed ballot measure by Transportation California would phase in a surcharge to the fee, charging motorists an extra one percent of the vehicle's value ... Read More
Small Businesses Anticipate Breakout Year Ahead
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From the Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2013:by Angus LotenDespite Some False Starts, Entrepreneurs Expect to Put the Downturn Behind Them in 2014Entrepreneur Bill Brown had scaled back his San Jose, Calif., construction firm as demand for new Silicon Valley homes and offices dried up in recent years, cutting his staff by two-thirds, to 50 by late 2011.But over the course of 2013, he has spent $200,000 on equipment and some new trucks—after "running the old ... Read More
Algebra Academy Gives Eighth Graders a Pathway to College
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by Peggy Townsend, UC Santa Cruz NewscenterThirteen-year-old Alejandra Ponce selected an L-shaped game piece and fitted it carefully onto the playing board in front of her. Her goal was to block her schoolmates from placing their own geometric pieces and, thus, win the contest.“It’s fun,” Ponce said of the game called Blokus as she and three other students counted up their scores in the Merrill Multicultural Center on Friday. “It’s mind twisting.”What might have been even ... Read More
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