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San Antonio Construction News • Sep 2015
What’s the story behind your name? My first name, I’m named after my dad. My last name, I guess the joke is that everybody always asks how to spell it. It’s the simplest possible name on the face of the Earth, and everybody asks me how to spell it. I always say, “Somewhere back down the line when they were doing the census, I would assume that my name was probably a whole bunch of letters and they either couldn’t read it or didn’t want to write it all down, so they just truncated it and made it New.” John New, Freese and Nichols There’s really only about three families in the United States that still carry the last name Blazi, and we are all extremely close. They live up in South Bend, IN and in Austin, and that’s about it. My grandmother is very big into genealogy, and she searched all over, and they tracked our last name. We’ve only found a few that we did not know about, but my father grew up with a majority of the ones left when he was born up in Pennsylvania. In the U.S., all of the people that hold the last name Blazi are related to us. Tim Blazi, Drash Contracting As far as I know, I was named after Brandon, MS, where my grandparents grew up. They moved here before I was born. My wife’s name, Colette – her grandfather’s name was Coley, so she was named Colette. Brandon Riddle, AmeriCRANE
My name is Yehuda, and people didn’t know how to pronounce it. And I decided to change it to Yuda. It’s from the Bible. Yuda Doliner, Fencecrete America I am Neil Berry Jr. My father was a Marine Corps veteran, and he was on Iwo Jima, 5th Division Marine Corps, and the way he served our country, I’m proud to carry his name on and to pass that on to my son and grandson. Neil Berry, A-Lert Building Systems The first name is easy – I was named after my great-grandfather. The last name is the interesting one. O’Krent is a unique name. You don’t see many O’Krents around, and that’s because my grandparents threw in the apostrophe without telling any of the living relatives at that time. And I think it probably had to do with the move from Cincinnati getting a fresh new start in San Antonio. Sam O’Krent, O’Krent’s Abbey Flooring Center
know. So, Reid is actually my adopted name from my stepfather. Kevin Reid, Reid & Associates The Kuenemann name is from Germany, and my ancestors settled in the Fredericksburg area and opened Kuenemann Hardware, which ended up getting bought out by Lowe’s. Kyle Kuenemann, Container Solutions My name is Jesus Martin Rendon, and I shortened it to J. Martin for [working at] my company. People at home call me Jesse, and people in the field call me Marty. J. Martin Rendon, Voltron Electric When people ask me how I got that
name, most of them ask me if I was born in Dallas. I tell them no, I was not born in Dallas; it’s just that my parents couldn’t spell Waxahachie! Actually, my dad had a good friend he went to school with named Dallas and he liked the name so my parents chose that name for me. Dallas Cloud, Moore Erection There’s no story behind my name, but my name is spelled differently than people pronounce it sometimes. Because Marcia can be spelled Marsha, sometimes when I’m introducing myself and someone can’t remember my name, I will say, “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” [from “The Brady Bunch”], and then they immediately remember. Marcia McKinley, Insite Architects
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Fraser is an old Scottish name, and the only exciting thing I’ve done associated with the old Scottish heritage is visit Fraser Castle in Scotland nine years ago. Gary Fraser, JMEG
Red Course Team Winner: Zachry
I don’t know the origin of my name. What’s interesting about my name is my real last name is Sherman. I was adopted, and that’s something not a lot of people
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Yellow Course Team Winner: Hart Lumber
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he American Institute of Architects (AIA) San Antonio Chapter hosted its sixth annual Shoot ‘N’ Skoot Jul. 31 at the National Shooting Complex complete with a barbecue cook-off. –mh
Employees of HJD Capital Electric were among 100 golfers and volunteers who participated in the second annual Enrique Barrera Parkway Golf Classic Aug. 3 at Brackenridge Golf Course. The benefit offset the taxpayer costs for the renaming of Old Highway 90 in honor of Westside public servant Enrique Barrera, who passed away in 2007. L-R: Willie Ng, president, Blue Armor; J.C. Herrera, project manager, Capital; Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran; Kristi Villanueva, deputy program manager, Capital; Councilman Ray Lopez –mh
Winners: Red Course Team: Zachry Team 1 – Travis Mross, Adam Saur, Vic Rosen, Curtis Schwartz, Terry Coram (196) Men Individual: Aaron Caldwell, Trane (46) Blue Course Team: TTG – Tae Hwang, Randy Ortiz, Rick Barrera, Cody Haby, Dylan Amons (171) Men Individual: Randy Ortiz (50) Women Individual: Marcella PalaferriHoward, Custom Building Products (34) Yellow Course Team: Hart Lumber – Clark Curnutt,
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Smokey Butler, Dwayne Frerich, Brad Frerich, Kenny Kotara (240) Men Individual: Kenny Kotara, Hart Lumber (53) Women Individual: Claudia Chavez, Spectrum Lighting (21) Green Course Team: Datum Engineers – Larry Rickels, Tim Stocks, Craig Rios, Chris Morris, Tony Battle (201) Men Individual: Chris Morris, Datum Engineers (47) Women Individual: Carolyn Pike, Marmon Mok (41
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