...the students' final project. They also built a deck for Gruening's drama department and learned how to work with sheet metal.Just halfway through the course, Hargraves said he has already acquired a wealth of useful knowledge."I didn't...
...years into Civil Service. He worked there until Nixon closed it down. After loosing his job on base he joined the Sheet Metal Union, which he had trained in the trade before moving to Alaska. He worked at pump stations on the North Slope and...
...sandwiches he bought with food stamps. Was this really happening? A grown man, formerly successful, hardworking union sheet metal worker and Army veteran of eight and a half years out living in the cold without a job? Pride is hard to swallow...
...served more than 26 years before retiring and honorably discharged. He was an aviation structural mechanic, aircraft sheet metal manufacturer and Class C-1 instructor in the Navy. He moved to Kenai in 1966. Mr. Call was a member of the V...
...the ice can be treacherous, but not all think the special studs are necessary. ''I screw three-quarter-inch sheet metal screws into the bottom of my shoes, and they work fine,'' said Mike McKrill, who has been running with a group...
...Leesburg High School in Leesburg, Fla., in 1941. She met her husband, Charles ?Chic? Sewell, while training as a sheet metal worker. They married in January 1942 and hitchhiked cross country to San Francisco where Jackie built ships while...
...son. He cherished his son and daughter. Ed loved mission aviation and he loved Alaska. He was a master craftsman of sheet metal work and aircraft restoration. He was an A&P, I.A. and a helicopter mechanic. Some knew him as 'Big Ed...
...Hercules. After retiring in Kodiak in 1975, he moved to the Soldotna area and went to work on the Alaska pipeline as a sheet metal journeyman and continued working on construction jobs throughout the state until 1992. He married his wife of 45 years...
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