For John Harnar, the secret to business success has everything to do with his team. “Keep them safe. Keep them working. Keep them happy,” the operations manager of Main Lite Electric said. “The rest is like dominoes.” Main Lite’s safe, working and happy employees have generated a great deal of success for the electrical contractor,…
Howard “Howdy” Friend, a World War II veteran, considers himself a lucky man. “The way I look at it, I was given over 70 extra years of life after the war,” said the 91-year-old Friend, a retired educator and administrator living in Poland. “I am appreciative of every opportunity that has come my way.” NECA-IBEW…
There is no greater feeling than sitting and watching a baseball game while an excited announcer describes the play. Thanks to the local NECA-IBEW Electricians and John Rafoth of Rafoth Electric, the Canfield High School baseball experience will be even stronger. NECA-IBEW Electricians recently contributed toward the construction of a new press box for the…
The folks at Girard’s CR Electric Inc. contributed their time and resources to the fight against cancer by powering the upcoming Liberty-McDonald Relay for Life event. This is not the first time that CR Electric has helped kick off a Relay for Life event. In fact, Jason Rubin, president, and the CR Electric team have…
As part of its sponsorship of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ Opening Day June 21, the NECA-IBEW Electricians are searching for a military veteran to throw the ceremonial first pitch of the season. The local association of Mahoning Valley signatory electrical contractors and IBEW locals launched a Facebook promotion this week at facebook.com/necaibewmv. To enter, Scrappers…
Local electricians Vincent Gould and Fred Beike will step off the job sites and onto the race course in the first annual Youngstown Marathon June 4. Beike, of Beaver Township, and Gould, of North Lima, who have participated in marathons in the past, are excited to run in the Youngstown Marathon and support their local…
Taking the grunt work out of the jobsite was the theme of the day for more than 30 journeymen and apprentice electricians attending a Southwire equipment demonstration. Two reps from the equipment manufacturer held a two-day training and demonstration on cable pulling and conduit bending for NECA-IBEW Electricians journeymen, apprentices and contractors at the newly…
In what’s become a 20-plus year tradition, more than a dozen tradesmen from IBEW Local 573 in Warren were once again on Courthouse Square this week setting up the electrical service for what has become one of the largest American Cancer Society Relay for Life events in the state. “Bill Horton started doing this way…
The year was 1986. Jim Beil was working as estimator and purchasing agent at AF Beil Electric Inc., which his uncle owned. Edward Slattery was chief estimator at Warden Electric. Both men, in their early 50’s, too young to retire, were leaving their positions for different reasons. They had known each other for years and…
A local economic recovery, growth in energy retrofitting jobs, as well as new companies moving into the area are referenced in a Business Journal article as driving forces keeping local electrical contractors busy. NECA-IBEW Electricians member contractors Joe Dickey Electric, Santon Electric and Bruce & Merrilees were all mentioned in the article about projects they’re…