The staff at VBCC has worked wonders yet again. The Event, Business and Operations staff just finished a long weekend of US Finals Cheerleading one our most taxing events. A special shout out is in order for the following VBCC supervisors and their teams who coordinated all the details throughout the weekend: Avery Burgess, her event managers and front of house staff; Brenda Felton, Jackie Owens and the entire housekeeping and set up team who worked around the clock; Bill Bradshaw and his grounds team, and Jill Sabourin, Wilonda Spratley and their ticket sellers. They did some serious heavy lifting this weekend and into the overnight Monday morning to prepare for the day’s events.
A call was put in late last week for reinforcements to help clean up the exhibit halls. These great team members stepped away from their desks to share in the work load:
James Caralivanos traded in his sales computer for a 6,000 pound fork lift while Bryan had 6,000 steps before 8:00 a.m.
The smiling faces of Darcy Potter, Diane Harrison and Rubylee Gardner were all busy with brooms and dust pans bright and early while Kimberlee Dobbins broke down cardboard boxes and salvaged soda bottles from the trash.
Even though Jill Sabourin and Wilonda Spratley worked the weekend, they came out early with push-brooms in hand.
Max Long worked the weekend too, but this new guy, in true form brought donuts and coffee after working to clean up bleachers.
Enough can’t be said about this photo’s importance. Under Larry Mitchell’s able leadership, maintenance must go on. While others were helping in the cleanup effort, maintenance and administrative staff were doing what they do every day to make VBCC work well and look good. Jeff Leonard started his day on a project to cover part of a vegetative bed with brick pavers. Take a look at his handiwork the next time you enter the ballroom. After pulling a few all night shifts, Larry was back in house Monday morning helping the admin crew move racks of tables and chairs with the forklift. He was also overseeing a three day project to replace VBCC’s elevator cables and a painting contract for the overhead steel in front of the ballroom.
One of the wonderful things about team VBCC is that they willingly come to each other’s assistance when needed. I’ll take that any day.
– Courtney