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San Antonio Construction News • AUG 2016
It’s great to be 58!
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These are nine of the fourteen winners of ECAT’s 2016 Skeet & Trap Shoot held at Alpine Range Supply near Fort Worth during the association’s 58th Annual Meeting in Duncanville. Since the score sheets were “misplaced mysteriously,” all 14 were awarded were champion blue ribbons and all still claim they were the winner.
his year’s annual meeting of the Earthmoving Contractors Association of Texas (ECAT) celebrated its 58th year, because contractors from around the San Antonio area first organized the group in 1958, meeting and organizing the association with the help of HOLT CAT of San Antonio. “Since then the organization has been through three name changes,” notes Carl Englerth, ECAT executive secretary. “They first started out as the Conservation Contractors Association of Texas and evolved into a national organization known as the Texas Chapter of the Land Improvement Contractors of America and went on to become the Earthmoving Contractors of Texas.” The celebration of the 58th year was held Jul. 15-16 at the Hilton Garden in Duncanville. Members enjoyed a skeet and trap shoot, a tour of the Cummins South Plains engine plant, educational programs from Texas 811 and Westward Environmental among others, and networking sessions. Winners in the 2016 ECAT Scholarship Program were Bradley
Cornell, Claude; Margaret Downing, Beeville; Natalie Irving, Canyon Lake; Katyln Hester, Giddings; and Toye Walter, Giddings. 2016-17 officers elected were John Frerich, Rowena – president, Joe Ed Jenschke, Kerrville – vice president, and Trooper Irving, Canyon Lake – secretary. District directors elected were Clint Cornell, Claude, Dist. 1; Marty Caston, Robert Lee, Dist. 2; Eddie Leatherwood, Dublin, Dist. 3; Bobby Watts, Decatur, Dist. 4; Ed Smith, Fairfield, Dist. 5; J.D. Godby, Clifton, Dist. 6; Galen Weber, Uvalde, Dist. 7; Tommy Watson, Cuero, Dist. 8; Clint Krause, New Braunfels, Dist. 9; Edwin Eckhardt, Fredericksburg, Dist. 10; John Puckett, Coleman, Dist. 11; Dennis Foerster, Giddings, Dist. 12; Chad Ottmers, Fredericksburg, Director-at-Large; and Dave Sund, San Antonio, Associate Director. –mh
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L-R: John Frerich, ECAT president, presented Eddie Leatherwood, Dublin, C.E.L. Contractors, with an award recognizing him as one of the longest serving members as an ECAT officer and director. He joined ECAT in 1976 and has been an active member for 40 years.
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L-R: Galen Weber, Uvalde, Weber Construction, received the Membership Award from John Frerich. He has won this award several times over the past several years, pursuing contractors to join using his knowledge of the earthmoving business as well as equipment used in earthmoving.