The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 164 recently celebrated 107 years of electrical excellence by honoring 31 members for their combined 1,765 years of distinguished service to the construction industry. Headquartered in Paramus, Local 164’s membership is comprised of more than 3,900 members throughout New Jersey. Pictured from left, are IBEW Business Manager Richard Dressel, Honoree William Lambert of Clark, Honoree Donald White of Ridgefield Park, Honoree William Malthaner of Warren, Honoree Robert Connelly of Denville, and IBEW President and Training Director John DeBouter

The New York Building Congress recently held its Annual Membership Meeting at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan. The Congress invted New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Executive Director and CEO Elliot Sander as the keynote speaker. Pictured from left, are: New York Building Congress Chairman Stuart Graham, Elliot Sander, U.S. Congressman Michael McMahon and New York Building Congress President Richard Anderson. (Photo courtesy of the New York Building Congress.)

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, LLC, a non-profit corporation operating as a wholly owner subsidiary of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, recently hosted an evening for the exhibit, Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room, an exhibit that celebrated many of Kahn’s interior designs and included a perspective rendering of the Four Freedoms Park which is about to be built on Roosevelt Island in New York City and is one of Kahn’s last designs. The event took place at the Arthur Ross Gallery in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Pictured from left are: William R. Griffith, Co-Chairman of the LLC Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Vice-Chairman Kathy Sloane, Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Co-Chairman of the LLC Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel, and President and CEO of the LLC Sally Minard. Photo courtesy of Rubenstein Public Relations.

Top leaders and executives of businesses and labor/trade construction organizations collectively raised $1,140,000 at the 28th Annual Friends of Saint Dominic’s Business & Labor Awards Dinner that was held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, helping the Blauvelt, New York based Saint Dominic’s Home continue its mission of bettering the lives of those in need. Pictured from left in the front row are: Ronald J. Sylvestri, SVP, Hudson Valley Bank; Judith D. Kydon, executive director, Saint Dominic’s Home; Sr. Joseph Mary Mahoney, O.P., president, Friends of Saint Dominic’s, and Saint Dominic’s Home Victory Award winner Louis Milo, president, Milrose Consultants, Inc. Pictured from left in the back row are: Francis J.P. McHale Memorial Award recipient Peter Thomassen, president, New York District Council of Carpenters; John T. White, Partner, Structure Tone, Inc., and the dinner committee chairman; David T. Meberg, president, Consolidated Carpet; Jeffrey Lazar, vice president, Lehr Construction Corp., and dinner emcee Rosanna Scotto, co-host, Fox 4 “Good Day New York”. Photo courtesy of OpenGate Marketing for Saint Dominic’s Home.