Caught Doing Good
Community Rebuilds Air Force Veteran's Home Destroyed in Fire
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Owen's Corning provides a free roof to 82-year-old couple without homeowner's insurance. Jerry Wooten, and his wife, Tina, both deserved a new roof. Earlier this year, a fire broke out in the neighbors shed, spreading to the side of their 984-square-foot home through ...
Earth Day 2021: 8+ Million Pounds of Waste Recycled at DaVinci Roofscapes
Net zero landfill scrap achieved. Marking the company’s ninth year of dedicated recycling efforts, DaVinci Roofscapes has now reprocessed more than 8,000,000 pounds of polymer scrap materials. The announcement comes in conjunction with Earth Day 2021, a focus on restoring our earth. “In 2020 alone we reprocessed more than 1.1 million pounds ...
Home Run for the Community: Local Roofing Company Repairs Little League Fields for Free
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Aboveboard labor and material donations deliver a grand slam, creating a space for kids to be kids. After a year of cancellations in 2020, Little League baseball is returning to Michigan in 2021. A local company recognized that the St. Charles ballpark needed ...
Roofers Hailed as Heroes for Extinguishing California Brush Fire
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Quick action by the crew prevented the high winds from making the fire worse. When a roofing crew from San Diego, California-based Palomar Solar spotted a brush fire while driving, they pulled over and jumped into action. That area of the state was under red flag ...
Polyglass Continues Donations of Roofing Materials to the Bahamas
Polyglass continues donations of roofing materials to disaster relief organization for rebuilding the Bahamas one year after Hurricane Dorian. Polyglass U.S.A., Inc continues to aid in the relief effort to rebuild communities in the Bahamas a year after category 5 Hurricane Dorian displaced thousands of people from their homes. Even this long ...
Purple Heart Homes Replace Leaky Roof for Navy Veteran
By Evelyn Witterholt. Ohio veteran is thanked for his life-long service efforts by getting his old roof fixed free of charge. Dennis Payne, 70, is a U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Vietnam War on the board of a tanker. But his service to our country doesn’t stop there. ...
Women Supported in the Roofing Industry
By Lauren White, RCS Reporter. Volunteers give back to others and mentor women in roofing. Women in the roofing industry are being encouraged by a new organization, the National Women in Roofing (NWIR). Founded just three years ago and run solely by volunteers, their focus is on mentoring, networking, ...
Roofing or Fishing What Do You Do?
Some days a guy just has to get away and do something fun. As the year of roofing grinds down and the rainy days produce some time off, a well deserved day on the river or lake can be just what we need to recharge our batteries. So get out the ...
