Bruening Rock Products, Inc.
Bruening Rock Products donated and set up several pumps and other construction materials to help prevent flooding at various Decorah Community School District properties.  Jessie Delaney was directly involved in arranging for the donations of time and equipment.

Cedar Valley Corporation
Cedar Valley’s company philosophy continues to be one of giving back to the industry and communities from which they draw their livelihood.  Numerous organizations benefit from Cedar Valley’s philanthropic attitude including a generous donation to the Community Foundation of Waterloo/Cedar Falls & Northeast Iowa.  Cedar Valley continues to give monetary support of the AGC of Iowa Foundation and AGC of America’s Education and Research Foundation.  Cedar Valley also supports Iowa State University’s College of Engineering by making contributions to the Construction Engineering Fund for Program Excellence and the ConE Fund for Program Excellence.
CVC was approached to assist in replacing the concrete base of the Veterans memorial that was originally constructed in 1918.  CVC worked with Manatt’s Ready Mix and CVC veterans Todd Burch, Brian Cherveny and Craig Hughes assisted the Eagle Scouts in repairing this long standing memorial.

Heartland Asphalt, Inc.
St Joseph’s elementary school building had been replaced two years previous and the funds for the new school had consumed the budget for building improvements for the foreseeable future.  In the mean time, St. Joe’s had been torn down but what was left was an unsightly vacant lot.  Heartland Asphalt, Inc. donated $42,000.00 in material and labor and turned the property into an attractive and useful parking area.
Since it’s opening in the 1940’s, the Ventura Gun Club’s steep gravel inclined access to U.S. Highway 18 made it difficult to gain easy access to the highway and move into traffic at an acceptable rate.  Heartland Asphalt, Inc. donated $ 2,500 in material and labor to place a 25 foot approach so vehicles leaving the club had a hard surface to enter the roadway.
Heartland Asphalt, Inc. also donated in 2008:
To local area schools for numerous events such as after prom, Vocal and Drama events and support of youth sports teams.
To Community Development and events such as annual city festivals, park development, and emergency/fire stations.
To various charitable organization, such as girl and boy scouts, United Way of North Iowa and the Christmas Cheer Fund.

Manatts, Inc.
Manatt’s, Inc. spearheaded the steering committee to develop the Michael J. Manatt Community Center in Brooklyn, Iowa.  The center would not only be an asset to the town of Brooklyn, but to the greater Poweshiek County, and would fulfill a dream of Mike Manatt’s prior to his death in 2005.  The $1.8 million project was the direct result of many hours of hard work from a committee of local citizens lead by Vickie McDonald, contracts administrator of Manatt’s, Inc.  Funds raised for the project came from the kindness of local citizens, Manatt vendors and industry partners, Manatt family members, Manatt’s Inc., and Vision Iowa.  The final result was a facility large enough to seat 340 plus guests for dinner or divide the reception space into two meeting rooms with their own top-of-the-line sound and video systems.  Special thanks to Vickie McDonald, Adam Manatt, Brian Manatt, Deb White, Diane Kilmer, Nate Hopwood, Duane McDonald and Sue Bim.

Skyline Construction, Inc.
Skyline Construction, Inc. supports their community fairs and 4-H programs in all of the counties they serve.  They accomplish this both with monetary contributions to the fair boards and by participating in the 4-H Livestock auctions of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties.  By doing so, county fairs are able to provide a showcase for the hard work done by the young people and to help county fairs continue being a viable event.  Special thanks to Duane and Keith Bruening.

The devastating natural disasters throughout Iowa in 2008 challenged many of our fellow citizens.  AGC of Iowa members suffered damage as well.  In addition to dealing with their own problems many of our members donated money, personnel, equipment, or materials to deal with flooding and tornado clean-up.  To recognize these members we are presenting them with the “Operation Bulldozer” Bravo Award.

Bruening Rock Products
Bruening Rock Products donated and set up several pumps and other construction materials to help prevent flooding at various Decorah Community School District properties.  Jessie Delaney was directly involved in arranging for the donations of time and equipment.

Coots Material Co., Inc.
Coots Materials assisted in containing flood waters in the Vinton Flood of 2008 by donating sand and materials from their quarries.  The materials were delivered by the six Coots dump trucks.  Coots also donated a loader and operator to assist in the placing of the sandbags.  Water pumps were also brought in from surrounding quarries to remove flood water that had crept into the Vinton Power Plant.

Hallett Materials
Hallett Materials donated a loader and operator to carry sand bags through 4 feet of water to help save new Polk County buildings and donated off road truck to the city of Johnston to carry pumps through 4 feet of water.

Peterson Contractors Inc.
Peterson Contractors was quick to respond to help after the Parkersburg tornado and the floods that effected Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City this past spring.  Their employees were at the scenes quickly, with the attitude of “we are ready to help with whatever we can.”  On Sunday, May 25th employees of PCI were contacted by family members immediately after a F5 tornado devastated Parkersburg.  Without hesitation PCI provided operators and equipment to help in any way possible.  Portable lights and generator helped rescue personnel work through the night.  PCI even helped move a semi trailer off a house so that family members could recover their grandfather’s military medals from World War II and their grandmother’s hand made quilts.  PCI was also called to help with chemical cleanup at the Sinclair elevator.  The tornado and heavy rains threatened to push spilled chemicals into the nearby river.  Less than two weeks later, the cities of Cedar Falls and Waterloo were desperately preparing for large amounts of water moving down the Cedar River towards their cities.  PCI was called to action to help dam both ends of the 18th Street Bridge in Waterloo.  Water rose so quickly in Cedar Falls the city officials were sure water would breech the levee, flooding the business district.  PCI assembled all available dump trucks & drivers from within PCI and other local contractors to haul sand to the levee area for sandbagging.  They were so successful in preventing major flooding that one local restaurant owner was quoted as saying “Thank God for the levee.  Thank God for PCI.  Thank God for the volunteer.  Thank God our downtown is not under water.”  In Cedar Rapids, PCI helped to clear what was left of the train car laden Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Co. Bridge.

Streb Construction Co., Inc.
Iowa City was also hit by the June flooding of 2008.  In an effort to have over 20 businesses and more than 300 homes, Streb Construction built a mile long community flood wall.  The construction of the flood wall was so impressive that President Bush visited the Streb Wall.  Special thanks to Dave Streb, Dan Chelf, T.J. Reisen, Dan Reisen, Jim White, Dave Krogh, Marcelo Oyarzun, Gary Evans, Randy Mongin, Kurt Yorder, Dennis Williams, Jason Schultz, Robert Carpenter, Curt Frantz, Gunnar Kroph, and Clay Graham.