L-R: BAC President Dave Jackson, Secretary-Treasurer Troy Garland, 3rd place tile layer Rodrigo Lara, 2nd place tile layer David Perez, tile instructor John Rodriguez, 1st place tile layer Daniel Agamao, Apprenticeship coordinator Lupe Ortiz.

From the desk of Steve Kantoniemi;
BAC Local # 3, San Francisco Field Representative/Vice Chair

BAC Local 3 JATEC’s will be hosting the Western States Apprenticeship Contest this year at our Mason Development Center on Saturday May 20th, 2017.  Our apprentices who place high enough at our Local Contest will compete against apprentices from Southern California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Hawaii. We invite all our members to come out and watch our apprentices compete. You will also get an opportunity to see our Mason Development Center if you have not had the chance. It is a state of the art training facility. Famous Dave’s will provide a great BBQ.

On April 8, 2017, we held our Local Apprenticeship Contest for the Tile Trade at the Northern California Tile Industry JATC Apprenticeship School, located at 15091 Wicks Blvd., San Leandro, CA. We had a great turn out for the contest, the weather may have been a bit cold but that did not stop a large gathering of our members, family and friends from coming out to support all the tile apprentice contestants. There was plenty of great food catered by Famous Dave’s BBQ for the contestants, and all who attended and helped out with the competition. I just want to say to all the Tile layer contestants who competed what an awesome job you all did representing the tile trade and your Apprenticeship School, and a thank you with gratitude and respect to all the tile finishers that came out and set everything up, great job gentlemen.

Tile Layer Contestants:

  1. Daniel Agamao
  2. Francisco Sanchez
  3. Jed Beck
  4. Nestor Hernandez
  5. Rodrigo Lara
  6. Bryan Martin-Gomez
  7. Ernesto Moreno, Jr.
  8. David Nieto
  9. Carlos Ochoa
  10. David Perez
  11. Javier Sua
  12. Chris Tello
  13. Daniel Rodriguez

Tile Finishers: (contest helpers)

  1. Arthur Aguilar
  2. Joseph Brewer
  3. Samuel Camacho
  4. Salvador Campos
  5. Justin Davalos
  6. Isaac DeOcampo
  7. Damian Espino
  8. Reed Foppe
  9. Leo Fortes
  10. Ivan Fuentes
  11. Alexis Garibay
  12. Armando Herrera-Lopez
  13. Eusevio Herrera
  14. Jian Hua Huang
  15. Jorge A. Lopez
  16. Juan Lopez
  17. Raul Magana
  18. David Martinez
  19. Heriberto Mendoza
  20. Eberardo Mercado
  21. Hector Montoya
  22. Jesus Nunez
  23. Ociel Osorio
  24. Juan C. Prieto
  25. Jose O. Reynoso
  26. Salvador Rostro
  27. Efrain Salazar
  28. Steven Sweatt
  29. Alfred Virula
  30. Agustin Zarco

The Tile Judges:
Mark Ansell, Alejandro Lomeli, Randy Fleming.

Tile Apprenticeship Coordinator: Lupe Ortiz
Secretary: Monique Sanchez

The following winners took home some great prizes and free dues. The top three Tile Layer winners are eligible to compete at the Western States Apprenticeship Contest (WSAC) at the Masonry Development Center (MDC) on Saturday May 20th, 2017. We wish them the best of luck.

Also, the top three of the Brick, Marble, PCC winners are eligible to compete at the WSAC at the MDC on May 20, 2017.

TILE WINNERS:
1st place:  Daniel Agamao
2nd place: David Perez
3rd place: Rodrigo Lara
Alternate Jed Beck will be competing at WSAC:

BRICK, MARBLE, PCC WINNERS:
1st place: David Biczkow, Brick
2nd place: Lamal O’Neal, Brick
3rd place: Kevin Mallett, Brick

1st place: Ismael Nunez, PCC
2nd place: Carlos Valle, PCC
3rd place: Daniel Jaquez, PCC

1st place: Luis Hinojosa, Marble
2nd place: Marcellino Haley, Marble
Alternate: James Grabill will be competing at WSAC:

WESTERN STATES APPRENTICESHIP CONTEST

MASON DEVELOPMENT CENTER – MDC

25347 S. SCHULTE RD. TRACY CA

SATURDAY, MAY 2OTH @ 8AM – LUNCH AROUND NOON

3 PM AWARDS CEREMONY

ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED – SEE YOU THERE!

(No Pets Allowed)