COMMERCIAL
  Windsor Boys & Girls Club Gymnasium

The Windsor Boys & Girls Club

The Windsor Boys & Girls Club is building a new 10,600 square foot gymnasium / multi- purpose building. The project is over half way completed with the building enclosed, electrical and lighting being installed and many other construction components in the works.

The new gym is located behind the main building and playground.

Doug Caldwell, Executive Director for the Windsor Boys & Girls Club, says they need to raise about $700,000 in their capital campaign to complete the building. When it is completed the building will house a full court high school regulation basketball court. The floor will also configure into two basketball courts side-by-side and will be used for volleyball and indoor soccer.

The building has two classrooms, one of which may be set up as a teen room according to Caldwell. There will be a commercial kitchen in a room that is built and designated for it. The building also has an office and mezzanine that will be used for storage. The sport-court basketball floor has yet to be laid and stands on both sides will be added later.

Koch Construction is the general contractor. Knights' Electric is doing the complete electrical layout for the building including the lighting and fire alarm system. Knights' Electric is performing their work at near cost for the Windsor Boys & Girls Club. "We try to do what we can for the community," says Art Knight, Vice President at Knights' Electric, who is overseeing the job along with Richard Freitas, Knights' Electric Project Manager.

Art Knight (left) and Doug Caldwell, Executive Director of the Windsor Boys & Girls Club, in the new gym.

Knights' Electric has a close association with the Windsor Boys & Girls Club. Barbara Ragsdale, CFO at Knights' Electric, is a former President of the Windsor Boys & Girls and Knights' Electric is the title sponsor for their 14 th Annual Invitational Golf Tournament coming up on September 7th.

  RESIDENTIAL
  Community Builders Group

The Gemmell family will soon be enjoying a larger and better home thanks to the Community Builders Group.

Knights' Electric, Inc. has joined the Community Builders Group to work on a project for a family in need of help. Creagh Gemmell, a mother of three adopted children, all of whom have disabilities, is in need of a larger home for her growing family. Because of the financial limitations of the Gemmell family the Community Builders Group has taken on the construction project of expanding the Gemmell home to accommodate the family's needs.

The 1,300 square foot home in Santa Rosa was too small for the family of four and in need of repairs including a leaky roof. An addition is being built onto the house and the garage is being converted into another bedroom. The garage/bedroom will be sound proof for Luke, the twenty-one year old son with autistic-syndrome, who needs what his mother describes as a space where he can be "Luke-loud". Luke is taking life skill workshops, learning to take a bus on his own and work with supervision.

The Gemmell home has a new addition, roof and other amenities to make it more comfortable.

Total Concepts, a general contractor of upscale residential homes, along with Shook & Waller, another residential contractor, have volunteered their services along with other contractors and volunteers to complete the project. Knights' Electric has installed a 200-amp service, wiring, outlets and lighting for the project. Art Knight, Vice President of Knights' Electric, and Scott Cameron, Residential Project Manager, are overseeing the electrical work after being recommended to the project by Total Concepts, one of their current customers. The Community Builders Group, located in Santa Rosa, is a non-profit organization committed to helping the elderly, disabled, single parents and children in the community by restoring homes and providing food. They also partner with community remodeling and new building projects such as schools and free health clinics that care for the needy.

  THE INDUSTRY
  Barbara Ragsdale
  Elected Secretary/Treasurer of NCBE

Barbara Ragsdale, CFO at Knights' Electric, Inc., has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the North Coast Builders Exchange. The other officers elected include President David Ely, 1st Vice President John Bly, 2nd Vice President Willie McDevitt and Immediate Past President Rodney Sichel.

Barbara Ragsdale was recently elected Secretary/Treasurer of the North Coast Builders Exchange

The officers were officially elected at the NCBE 52nd Annual Dinner held at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa on June 28th. The officers will join 16 other NCBE Board of Directors members to lead the 1900- member organization in the coming year. The NCBE is the largest Builders Exchange in California and third largest in the U.S. This is Barbara Ragsdale's first year on the NCBE Board of Directors Executive Committee and her third year on the Board of Directors. "It's definitely made a difference in my knowledge of the North Bay construction industry, for example, how the political climate affects our industry," says Ragsdale, "I find it very enlightening." Ragsdale sees the NCBE as a group with common goals, "NCBE represents all facets of construction. Membership is a way to have a voice and representation no matter what the size of your company," says Ragsdale, "I feel that we're part of this construction community that is working in a positive way to make things better for everyone." Ragsdale is also Chair of the Community Relations Committee and has participated in NCBE Careers in Construction Expos, which exposes high school students to the construction industry. "The NCBE is very proactive with young people in our Construction Boot Camps and making construction jobs available while they are still in school," says Ragsdale. Because of the way the NCBE Executive Committee is structured Barbara Ragsdale is now on her way to become NCBE President in three years. She would be only the second woman to hold that title in the history of the NCBE.