COMMUNITY

MAKE-A-WISH GOLF TOURNAMENT: The Irvine office hosted its 2nd Annual Golf Tournament at the Yorba Linda Country Club on Monday, September 22. The event raised $90,398 benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation® and their mission to make a difference in the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions.

AHA HEART WALK: Team members from the W. L. Butler Construction Redwood City office participated in the American Heart Association's Annual Heart Walk Thursday, September 18. The nine member team raised over $7,000 to save lives from this country’s No. 1 and No. 3 killers, heart disease and stroke.

MARCH OF DIMES GOLF CLASSIC: The Redwood City office hosted its 6th Annual Golf Classic at Sharon Heights Country Club on Monday, August 5, 2008. This event alone raised $263,775 for the March of Dimes (a 12% increase over last year), which brings the company's six year total to $1,079,000.

LYMPHOMATHON '08: Team Butler took a "Step to Find a Cure" Sunday, June 8 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. This is the second year the company has participated in the annual 5K walk honoring those whose lives have been touched by lymphoma. Led by Debra Mardesich, a lymphoma survivor at W. L. Butler Construction, the team raised $1,450 to support the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

REBUILDING TOGETHER 2008: W. L. Butler Construction has been a proud sponsor of Rebuilding Together Peninsula for the past 18 years. St. Francis Center of Redwood City was the lucky recipient of a “GREEN” remodel this year, which included replacing non-efficient appliances, adding eco-friendly carpet tiles and recycling as many materials as possible. On April 26, volunteers and subs converted the existing “La Casita” into two office units with a food storage space in the old garage. One of these units will provide information and citizenship assistance. The second unit will be rented out for office space, and proceeds will benefit the nonprofit foundation.

DONATE LIFE WALK 2008 : Team members from the Irvine office participated in the 5K/1K Challenge on Saturday, April 26 at Cal State Fullerton with a total of 87 participants. The group raised nearly $21,000 to benefit the Donate Life California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry.

AUGUST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: Thirteen fourth graders took a field trip to the Stockton office for “Construction 101." W. L. Butler Construction contributed $1,000 to the school's yearbook program. The money will help their reachout program and encourage students to participate in after school programs such as this. Most of them come from rough neighborhoods and low income families.

SHARING THE SPIRIT (REDWOOD CITY): Over 75,000 children throughout the Bay Area placed holiday wishes through the Family Giving Tree Organization. Team members in the Redwood City office fulfilled roughly 75 of these requests and volunteered their time to help process the gifts on December 20. W. L. Butler Construction has been a proud supporter for the past 5 years.

SHARING THE SPIRIT (STOCKTON): The Stockton office took off their hard hats and put on their giving hats on December 19. Through the generosity of its team members and subcontractors, children at The Walton Special Center received a flood of gifts from Santa. This local school provides distinctive programs for students with severe disabilities.

SHARING THE SPIRIT(PALM DESERT): The Palm Desert office teamed up with several local companies to provide gifts for 164 foster children (47 families). Thanks to their big hearts, each child received at least two of the items they had listed on the wish list (total value exceeding $6,000). Money intended for an office party was spent to provide food and drinks for the families at an event on December 19.

SHARING THE SPIRIT (IRVINE): Together with the Peace Officers Firefighters Fellowship, nearly 40 team members, family members and business partners of W. L. Butler Construction provided over 100 children from the Marine Base Camp Pendleton with the joy of Christmas. They opened their hearts and wallets to ensure two or more gifts were avaiable for each child that attended.

SECOND HARVEST FOOD DRIVE: W. L. Butler Construction collected 550 pounds from team members within the Redwood City office, as well as $1,500 dollars for food and donations through an online virtual food drive to provide those in need with holiday feasts.

DREAMS HAPPEN: In addition to preserving and revitalizing houses and communities, we team up with subs and vendors every other year to build a playhouse for the Dreams Happen auction held in June. This year’s team constructructed its 8th playhouse with a “Tahoe Trading Post” theme – complete with a slide and climbing rope. The minimum bid is $5,000 and on average, these one-of-a-kind fantasylands go for $12,000-$18,000.