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"Our communities are made up of
a variety of overlapping and ultimately interconnected groups,
from very small to very, very large. For me (and probably
for you too), a list of my communities includes my nuclear
family, my extended family, my neighborhood, my town, my company,
my industry, my country and our planet. And there are yet
others like churches, bowling teams, Scout groups and on.
All of these communities rely on each other, and ultimately
they rely on each one of us."
~Jonathan Orpin
Which got us thinking...New Energy Works isn't just a community
of its own either. We [as individuals] live in small towns
all over Rochester. New Energy Works operates in the beautiful
Finger Lakes, builds houses over the entire United States,
and has friends in countries all over the world. With this
many connections to humanity, how can you not feel the want
to give back a little?
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New Energy Works is working
with the Eastman School of Music to help install a new
organ in Christ Church (Episcopal). This 18th-century
Northern and Central European organ will soon be completed
in Rochester and has been designed according to the specifications
of an instrument built by Adam Gottlob Casparini in 1776
for the Church of the Dominicans in Vilnius, Lithuania.
See the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative's
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A NEWWoodworks special - this wine rack
was made by our furniture gurus out of reclaimed French
Oak wine barrels. It shows a beautiful patina from years
of holding wine, and even has an original barrel plug
on the right side.
It, along with several of its previous brethren went up for auction at the Camp Good Days and Special Times annual wine auction dinner, bringing a sizable donation
to this worthy charity.
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With the help of Seattle's TreeHouse Workshops,
New Energy Works designed and built an ultimate tree house
for the Gell Center. The project started
with a workshop where people from all over the country
not only learned how to design a dream tree house themselves,
but got to help design the Gell Center's masterpiece. The resulting design was then brought to life in a second workshop, with attendees from three continents lending their skills to the project
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New Energy Works donated a custom made bench for the
Rotary sponsored Dance for Life silent action. It sold
for about $400. Proceeds from the Dance for Life totaled
around $9000 which were all donated to the Sands Cancer
Center in Canandaigua to be used for breast cancer research.
New Energy Works was also a corporate sponsor for the
Rotary Taste of the Finger Lakes event - proceeds of
which fund Rotary sponsored charitable events throughout
the year.
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Our good friend and client Rick Williams was one of
the prime movers in developing a pretty hairy mountain
bike course in a new local park. Being avid mountain
bikers ourselves, we were flattered when he asked if
there was anything we could do to help out. It just
happened that we had a cool pergola made from as-found
timbers left over from another job, so J.O. Marc and
Iain spent an enjoyable Fall morning raising it to form
the trailhead entrance.
Learn
more about the pavillion here.
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In the summer of 2006, we raised this donated timber
frame with the help of volunteers in downtown Rochester.
Made of donated White Pine and Hemlock, this frame has
been made possible thanks to 100% love and dedication
by, not just us, but many other local companies. [New Energy
Works would especially like to thank our friend Jim
Destefano for his donation of his engineering stamp.]
Learn
more about The Vineyard here.
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- Red Jacket Pavilion in Shortsville
- Community raising for the Sterling
Renaissance Festival's gift shop
- Raising for Camp Good Days and Special
Times timber frame
- New Energy Works plays Santa to a yearly
adopted family at Christmas
- Educational tours of our facility are
available to local colleges & BOCES
- Planted 100-200 trees in previous
years for Earth Day
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When we asked around, it amazed us how many folks in our
NEW community help their own communities on the weekends,
after a long days work, or on their days off. The question
then is why. Why do they do it? We took a moment to ask
that question to some of our NEW people. These are the
responses we got... |
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Keith, NEW's head of General Contracting Services,
has been involved with the Boy Scouts since he was in
a pack himself. Right after college he became a troop
leader and now is a Cub Scout Den leader for his 8 year
old son's pack.
"I'm involved in scouting so
that I can spend time with my son, give back to the
community and have an excuse to go camping." |
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Karen,
Finance Guru, is a member of the Monsignor Schnacky Community
Players - they do 6 performances in February to benefit
St. Catherine of Siena Church in Mendon.
Says Karen of why she is a Community
Player, "primarily because I was meant to be on stage
and the fact that proceeds goes to a church is a plus
(even though I don't belong to that church). I meet lots
of people, I have made lots of friends, and I love being
on stage." |
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Valerie
is our office manager who [along with her husband] has
played violin and mandolin in various bands. One recent
venue was the Earth Day cleanup party for GroundScore,
an organization that publishes a free monthly, environmental
and political magazine for groups or individuals sometimes
ignored by the mainstream media.
"These kinds of events give you
the opportunity to meet a lot of wonderful people." |
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Mike
H in engineering is the coach for the Walworth Bandits
traveling summer soccer teams of boys U-15 and this year
girls U-18.
"I've been playing soccer all
my life and had previous experience coaching the youth
recreation leagues for two years prior. The coordinator
and I coached together the first year and I have been
on my own ever since. We have posted winning seasons in
all three years." |
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Marc, one of our timber framers, built
this grotto last summer for his church in Shortsville.
"In this picture my son Nick
and I are laying the last stone for the church's new
grotto with will hold a statue of Mary." |
- Mike Basile helped build a timber frame pavilion
in Naples Community Park
- Mike Beganyi has worked as a course marshal for
the Green Mountain Stage Race and also serves on the
Conservation Commission in Putney, Vermont.
- Karen is President of Victor-Farmington Rotary and
also individually counsels
breast cancer patients
- John A. is a volunteer assistant with the New York
State Department of
Environmental Conservation (DEC), Bureau of Wildlife
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