Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Ribbon Cutting For Cives Steel NWD
We had our grand opening last Wednesday. The Governor of Idaho attended as well as all the executive management of Cives Steel Corporation & Cives Viking company's. Mandy and the girls attended and I ended up being a pretty fun event. All the family's and locals that were invited were able to take a tour of the plant and offices.
Of course, I have to add something funny that happened... Dawn and I were in my office at the time the Governor and his entourage came through the drafting department. My general manager Ben introduced me to him and he started to ask me questions about my department. Well of course my accent sparked his curiosity and asked "where are you from"? I said "Georgia, South Georgia". He said I can tell. At this point the media of 2 or 3 different stations set up their camera's in my office pointing them at us talking. This of course started to make me a little nervous. (All I could think about was saying something stupid and someone watching this going "Yep, another southerner".. Well he started talking about Nat the Governor of Georgia and how he had just attended a meeting with him. Well the only think I could think to say at that point was "So how is ol Nat doing these days"? Like I actually knew him personally or something. Ha.. Well I got a long story about what ol Nat's family has been up to the past few months. Ha..
Once we were done exchanging our pleasantries he look down at Dawn who was sitting in a chair in front of my desk. I introduced her to the Governor and Dawn shakes his hand (this all getting caught on by the media) and all the folks proceed on their marry way down the hall. I look over at Dawn and say "would it have killed you to stand up to shake the Governors hand hunny"??
One remaining news anchor here over heard this and laughed.. Luckily I didn't see that make the news.. Thanks goodness...
Here are a few pictures of the event as well as a link to the news report given by one of the news crews that night.
News Link:
http://www.localnews8.com/video/Sky-s-the-limit-for-Cives-plant-in-Ucon/-/461276/21377862/-/92ra5j/-/index.html
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sounds exciting! watched the video and saw y'all in the clip at 1:50 sitting at the table looking very interested. i'm really proud of you flan!
ReplyDeleteThe pictures and video are great! I know you are so excited to see all the preparation pay off. Proud of you cuz and that story about Dawn and the governor is hilarious!
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