CDOT: Memorial page 9

CDOT related news in Cotopaxi, Colorado. Region 2, Section 4, Patrol 60

Thanks for the help:

Chuck Bennett - he asked me to do this.

Chuck Decker - giving me the time to do this.

Chad Wright set forms & pour pad & sidewalk, finish sidewalk, spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit. Came in on the weekend and worked on the sidewalk. Chad is the concrete man!

Rick Perschbacher Rick helped out a lot - Getting the rock at the quarry, setting up the rock, hauling rock, pouring pad, hauling decorative gravel from Westcliffe, spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit . It was also Rick's idea to ask the Tezaks for a donation.

Jerry Degenhart Getting the rock

Ed Reigel Getting the rock

Steve Martinez Getting the rock, spreading gravel

Cale Purvis Getting the rock, spreading gravel

Brian Thompson set forms & pour pad & sidewalk, spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit

Everett Archuleta spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit, operate bobcat loader

David J. Montano spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit

David Valdez spreading gravel, dig electric lines, set conduit, pour sidewalk

Dan Haberman donate flagpole&flag, dig & set flagpole base, pour sidewalk, finish work on sidewalk

Harold Moore pour sidewalk

Jim Diorio pour sidewalk - offer to etch rock

Rich Babb - pour sidewalk

Todd Ausbun - pour sidewalk & adjust wheelbarrow

James Schwab - pour sidewalk

Mike Martin - tools! "Tool-King"!

Ferrin Wold - tools & set rock

John Eickholt set rock, access to tools, just showed up when needed!

Larry Team set rock, just showed up when needed!

Todd Dotson- help finding parts

Albert Lake- parts & tools

Basilio Martinez - get parts, get me vehicles to take home, access to tools

Gabe Gonzolez - supplies. Gabe kept the tree watered.

Barb Portillos in storeroom- supplies

Sasan Delshad- Technical advise

Nick Strombeck- helped put flag/pole up.

Dave Pierce electrician

Ed Decker - electrician

Help from Outside of CDOT:

Andrew Heckard - my nephew - a stone mason, came down from Longmont and made the cement mortar joint between the two memorial granite blocks.

Melissa Smiens - of the BLM, for quickly getting the permit ready.

Paul Garrett - Fremont County Road & Bridge, for allowing us to get the rock from their permit area.

Aaron Tezak & Nicole Tezak (brother & sister) of Colorado Quarries for giving us the decorative Indian Sunset rock.

Granite slab phase:

Dan Haberman - help load granite slabs

Bill Baily - weld frame

Ferrin Wold - tools

Howard Ray - provided material for frame

Ed Reigel - welding, loading, unloading

Jerry Degenhart - help with frame

Chuck Bennett & Chuck Decker - let me work on this when I needed to.

Rich - Spence Memorials - great advice, he did the inscription.

Frank - Powder Coating -

If I have forgotten anyone on this list, I apologize.

I picked up some granite counter top slabs. Looking to get this etched as a memorial sign to replace the blue aluminum sign.

Cash flow has kind of kept this project on the back burner. While taking my wife to a Pueblo hospital appointment on Monday, Dec.22, I happened by Classic Stone. I noticed they were closed, with a handwritten sign on the fence indicating the slabs in the yard were for sale. I called the number and got Mr. Steve Oaks. He said Classic Stone had gone belly-up and he and a friend bought the yard contents at auction. I told him what I had in mind, he priced them at $5/square ft. (thanks Steve, for coming down from $10/sq. ft. on the big one), and after a lot of looking around I ended up buying a couple late in the evening. I got a spare in case I mess up the first one. The irony is I just finished putting a second-hand Formica kitchen counter in my home. Anyway, I'm about tapped out of $ right now so this might sit for awhile.