2024:

The 23rd Annual 'Cruisin the Pines' Car Show is September 7, 2024...registration is open now!

Kudos and More

As we have always done, Jean and I try to hire kids from the local High Schools to fill our company’s needs and help them work on their futures. Generally they were from the R.O.P. programs at NU & Bear River’s…..”Regional Occupational Program”…which today is the “Career Technical Education” program. One of the first kids we hired were Daughter Jessica and Son Joe of Bear Rivers’ Auto Shop program teacher Bob. That gives you some idea how long ago that was. Andrew has been an instructor in the NHUSD system…

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Story Time

The pictures of the kids in the Mustang are some of my favorites. When I was on the Board as the Event guy I arranged a visit to Hennessy School to stage a small car show specifically with cars the kids could get into and mess with. These kept saying “I’m driving to New York!!!!” I use this photo as back drop on one of the computers, so I see it frequently. It leads me to the point of this note told in a couple of stories… Story 1 I…

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Mentoring the Future

This is an overview of the mentoring/intern program (CTE) at Nevada Union High School (NUHS) and my participation in the program. – Randy K. Our Roamin Angels’ colleague, Mike Hauser, has been a huge advocate of community involvement on behalf of the Roamin Angels especially with the youth of our community.  He recruited me in late 2018 to work with George Woodward, Auto Shop instructor at NU, to possibly mentor/intern a student in my shop.  I interned a student, Dillion Haemmig, the spring semester of 2019.  It went very well….

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Bear River High School Shop Tour

After Breakfast Field Trip Friday, May 10, 2019 A bunch of us jumped at the opportunity to view the wood and metal shops at Bear River High School. We were greeted in the office by this (what I thought was a high school student ) young woman,  Morgan.  She has a masters degree from San Luis Obispo.  I was under the misconception that the Arts were cut in high school, but thankfully, that is not the case. Speaking for all of us, we were overwhelmed with how brilliant Morgan was. She ran both shops and a…

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