Uncategorized

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 [...]

We are also indebted to Reliable Wholesale Lumber, Inc, who donated the lumber for our first two cottages, and rushed us enough lumber to start building the floors. Reliable is a Building Industry Association member and a great friend to the California Homebuilding Foundation. Randall Richards, EVP of Operations & Sales, quickly responded to our request for help. Reliable has been a staunch supporter of the Building Industry Technology Academy (BITA) program. Randy personally heads up BITA’s Design Build Competition every year. Thank you Reliable and Randy for all that you do!

We are grateful to Boral Steel for its donation of Stone Coated Roofing panels manufactured in its Oceanside, CA plant. Boral has offered us a choice of three different panel profiles in five different colors. They are all beautiful, strong, long-lasting and energy efficient. Boral has a long and proud history of supporting the communities in which it operates. Boral is committed to being a socially responsible and valued member of those communities and making a positive and sustainable contribution to their well-being. The company's community investment framework is built around our "People, Places and Products." This framework helps Boral identify [...]

We are grateful to The Grainger Foundation for a generous $5,000 donation to The San Marcos Promise for the Warrior Village Project. The donation was presented in the SMHS workshop, in the form of a suitably large check, by Carlos Ramirez, Manager, Branch Network, Grainger, Inc. (San Diego 723 & San Marcos 721). Carlos was joined in the check presentation by his Grainger colleague, Meggan Ochoa. Receiving the check on behalf of The San Marcos Promise was Chris Geldert (BITA Instructor,) Angel Casarez (BITA student and CTE Ambassador), Lisa Stout (Executive Director, The San Marcos Promise), and Mark Pilcher (Warrior [...]