NEW MEXICO BRICKLAYERS AND ALLIED CRAFTWORKERS
JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE
(JA&TC)
APPRENTICESHIP NEWS
New Mexico Bricklayer Apprentices Pay Homage to Slain Student This Spring, BAC Local 3 AZ-NM-TX apprentices from the Joint Apprenticeship & Training Center in New Mexico constructed a monument in honor of Highland High School's varsity third baseman Ryan Vigil. Ryan, 17 and a member of EMPOWER, a group dedicated to reducing gun violence, was fatally shot in October 2007.
Materials for the monument were donated by BAC signatory contractor PRECISION MASONRY Inc. of Albuquerque.
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Pictured above from left: Apprentice Ponciano Batres Cezar Valasquez, Apprentice Instructor Pete Cano, Precision Masonry co-owner Michael Espinosa, apprentice Kevin Estrada, Precision Masonry co-owner Mike Keenan, and apprentices Jeremiah Wessing and Jerry Dean Wayne.
Photos by Marvin Duran