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The Family Business
7/20/03
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My hometown paper does a weekly segment on an area business.   My father's general contracting business finally got its day in the limelight.

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I have a lot of respect for my father and his work (not quite enough to want to carry on the family business, but enough to know that he can do pretty much anything he sets his mind to).  I paid for a vehicle and most of my college degree by working summers and holidays for him and it was a good experience for me (my father would say it was a good "character-building" experience at times).   My brother must like sunlight and diesel fuel a little more than I do, because he worked summers and holidays like I did and then gravitated back to the company after his vo-tech school (he was grumpy with me because I put "Foreman" on the business cards I gave him for his birthday - "I'm the Vice-President.").

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B & C Steel
(My father's favorite building manufacturer.)