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Foster, R.I.’s A. Gervasio Construction Celebrates 45 Years in Business
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By Jay Adams CEG CORRESPONDENT
This year, A. Gervasio Construction celebrates 45 years of service to the community in the field of excavation. The Foster R.I.-based company started humbly on a farm with a hard-working pair of boys. Albert (known as “Chic” to most) Gervasio started A. Gervasio Construction Company back in 1966. The life of the new company actually began with a death in 1963, when Gervasio’s dad passed away. Gervasio and his brother Bobby were left in charge of running the farm where they were raised. Gervasio bought a desperately needed piece of equipment for the A. Gervasio Construction’s first project of this kind; the installation of the base for farm, a brand new John the 100-kilowatt windmill at the New England Institute of Technology’s campus, Deere shovel dozer (model next to I-95 in Warwick, R.I. 20-10) for $6,600, which was needed to move corn silage and feed the cows. Now that he had a monthly note to way. For a few years, this was a one-man operation. In 1970, Gervasio bought a Ford Luievell truck and 500C pay on this piece of equipment, he needed to find a way to backhoe and said goodbye to his night job at Pratt & make it pay for itself. Gervasio started working the night shift at Pratt & Whitney. Then, Gervasio’s first employee, Mitch Parent Whitney as an apprentice sheet metal welder from midnight came along. To this day, 45 years down these country roads, he is still considered family. Although he left the business to 7 a.m., five to six days a week. But there was no rest. During the daylight hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., he back in 1978, Parent still lives next door to A. Gervasio would work on the farm. He then started doing other side Construction. Many days, he can be found in the garage with jobs with the shovel dozer. Before he knew it, the earthmover the boys, working on a project, or in the barn, still helping out. was paid off. That same year, 1978, Gervasio’s oldest son, Peter Gervasio, came on board. He was barely 16 when he started The Start of ‘Something Bigger’ Realizing this could be the start of something big, working after school and weekends. Business was good and Gervasio bought a six-wheeler International truck and trailer see gerVASIO page 4 to haul the machine around. With this mobility, he was on his