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H.G. Fenton Company creates Lifestyle Opportunities where Employees Flourish, Residents Live Well and Businesses Succeed. H.G Fenton also sponsors the Green Build Tech Academy at North County Trade Tech. The Academy was founded to fuse specific “Green” STEM education with college and career preparation programs, specifically in the construction and engineering design sectors. We are grateful to the H.G. Fenton Company for a $1,000 donation to The San Marcos Promise for the Warrior Village Project.

Our students have pounded a lot of nails (and bent quite a few!) with framing hammers in the last 4 months. But, they are also learning how to use labor-saving and time-saving power tools, like nail guns, to prepare them for careers in construction. While ordering supplies from HD Supply White Cap, Jon Hill, one of our AGC instructors, asked HD Supply if they would donate a couple of boxes of collated nails to the Warrior Village Project for our nail guns. HD Supply was quick to say yes. HD Supply donated a box of 3.25 inch collated nails as [...]

The Building Industry Association of San Diego County has asked members to support our program by donating materials, journeymen to teach our students, as well as dollars to purchase tools and materials. Guy Asaro, President & CEO of Meridian Development, shrewdly took advantage of Black Friday savings to acquire and donate a motorized 12” compound miter saw (with free stand) and an 8-piece DeWalt 20 volt tool kit (drill, impact driver, 6 1⁄2” circular saw, oscillating saw, 4 1⁄2” grinder, flashlight and Sawzall) for our program. Mr. Asaro asks that other development companies follow his lead to support our students and [...]

Most builders use factory-built roof trusses when building homes. But, our students are building our trusses to maximize their learning experience (and to test their knowledge of trigonometry!). Our vaulted, mono trusses look simple, but difficult, small-angle saw cuts are required to build them. To ensure that we build all 44 of them correctly, we sought expert help from Jon Lazarus and Scott Eskridge, the owners of Aloha Lumber & Truss. Jon and Scott were eager to help. They built us a prototype truss that we could use to construct a jig for making the rest of our trusses. And, [...]

We are also grateful to the Henkel Corporation, the world’s #1 adhesives producer. Jason Blacklock, a 1988 graduate of San Marcos High School, learned about our program when he was touring the campus during his wife’s 30–year SMHS reunion. Jason contacted us to tell us that his employer, Henkel Corporation, wanted to help. Henkel is donating Loctite PL Premium Construction Adhesive, and OSI branded sealants (Quad Max, Quad Foam, Quad Butyl Flashing Tape, Fire Block Foam and SC175 Air Sealant), and foam applicator guns. Jason will come back to SMHS to teach our students how to apply his products correctly, to [...]

Dan Jestand, Manager of the Sherwin-Williams store in San Marcos, was quick to say “Yes” when we asked him to support the Warrior Village Project and San Marcos High School by donating painting supplies for our cottages. He is waiting for a call to tell him we are ready to paint. Dan also offered to give our students a tutorial on paints, painting tools and paint application techniques. He and his colleagues, Ross Purgatorio and Guillermo Muniz, came to our Open House to show their support for the Warrior Village Project. The next time you are shopping for paint, stop by [...]

We are grateful to the Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund for a $5,000 grant. Weyerhaeuser Company began more than 100 years ago with 900,000 acres of timberland, three employees and a small office in Tacoma, Washington. Founded in 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the Company has grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world. Weyerhaeuser manages the most sustainable, versatile resource on earth: forests. Weyerhaeuser employees are experts at using trees to make products people need, and they do it the right way so our forests will last forever. Weyerhaeuser employees are working together to be the [...]

Thanks to a gift from Johnson Level, our students will be learning new building skills with new, professional quality, Johnson Level tools. For over 70 years, Johnson has been supplying innovative solutions in the Level, Layout and Measuring product categories. Today, Johnson is the only U.S. based supplier offering a full spectrum of levels, lasers and layout tools to help professional tradesmen do their work more accurately, quickly and reliably. Johnson Level was happy to hear that our "student's were involved in something so broad and beneficial to the community. It's great to know there are groups like yours out there [...]

We are also grateful to The Home Depot Foundation, which awarded The San Marcos Promise a $5,000 Community Impact Grant for the Warrior Village Project. Since the first The Home Depot store opened in 1979, giving back has been a core value for the Company and a passion for its associates. Today, The Home Depot, in partnership with The Home Depot Foundation, focuses its philanthropic efforts on improving the homes and lives of U.S. military veterans. Through Team Depot, the Company's associate-led volunteer force, thousands of associates dedicate their time and talents to these efforts in the communities where they [...]