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Posts Tagged ‘VN Services’
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
 The White House Tucker Elliott just got back from a trip to Washington DC where he met with representatives of several federal agencies. Tucker remains impressed with the level of knowledge and dedication of those that he’s been dealing with, who often travel to fairly dangerous places on our behalf.
You may be surprised to know that one of these agencies, which is providing the loan on our client’s Baghdad hotel project, has generated profits from its loans that have helped lower the federal budget deficit every year for the last 34 years!
While he was in Washington DC, Tucker also had the opportunity to meet with the Commercial Attaché in the Iraqi Embassy to discuss additional opportunities for projects in Iraq. The meeting proved to be very interesting.
Tags: Middle East, Rotana Hotel, Rotana Hotel Baghdad, VN International, VN International LLC, VN Service, VN Services, VNI, Washington DC
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Thursday, May 24th, 2012
 Joe finishes the race. Joe Morris successfully completed the Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon on Sunday, May 20, 2012. He and 14,663 other runners finished the 26.2 mile race in 79 degree heat, during a “red flag” heat warning. Although Marathon officials urged runners to slow down due to the heat, Joe still finished his first ever marathon in a very respectable time.
Joe’s Race Statistics:
Finish Time: 4:19:16
Overall Place: 1017/14,664
Gender Place: 733/6389
Division Place: 51/391
Pace: 0:09:53
Congratulations, Joe! Well done!
Tags: Cleveland Marathon, Finished Cleveland Marathon, Joe Morris, Joseph Morris, Joseph W. Morris, Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, VN Service, VN Services
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
 Left to right: Tucker Elliott, Bob Vail, Sharon Scott, Diana Chalmers, Richard Leach and Joe Morris On April 5 & 6 we held our annual two day renewal at Welshfield Inn in Burton, Ohio. The renewal is an important tool in our internal management process, where we apply our expertise in analyzing construction projects to our own company, by reviewing the previous year’s successes and its bloopers.
Historically, we have learned that the renewal is very valuable because we take the time to go off-site, and honestly look at where we’ve been and how we got there. Then we use those insights to set reasonable goals for the upcoming year.
After a day and half of brain-storming, we leave the site and go spend the second afternoon “playing”.
This year we celebrated Tucker Elliott’s birthday with a delicious lunch at The Great Lakes Brew Pub in Cleveland, followed by a quick tour of Cleveland’s Historic West Side Market, which is just down the street from the restaurant. The West Side Market has more than 100 ethnic vendor booths offering a wide variety of foods ranging from exotic pastas to goat’s heads.
Once done at The West Side Market, we finished our afternoon with a visit to The Greater Cleveland Aquarium, which opened on January 21 in the West Bank of the Flats. The aquarium was an interesting mix of the architecture of the old FirstEnergy Powerhouse and the new aquatic exhibits. Fun was had by children of all ages… including us!
Tags: analyzing construction projects, Bob Vail, Cleveland's Historic West Side Market, Diana Chalmers, Diana J. Chalmers, FirstEnergy Powerhouse, Joe Morris, Joseph W. Morris, M. Tucker Elliott, Richard Leach, Richard P. Leach, Robert L. Vail, Robert Vail, Sharon Scott, The Great Lakes Brew Pub, The Greater Cleveland Aquarium, The West Side Market, Tucker Elliott, VN Services, Welshfield Inn
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
 Bob and Lynn Vail attended The Gow School’s Annual Alumni Dinner on October 15, 2011,where Bob was recognized as Gow’s 2011 Distinguished Alumnus winner.
Bob graduated from Gow, a college preparatory school for boys with dyslexia and similar language based learning disabilities, in 1968 and has served as a member of Gow’s Board of Trustees since 2005.
He currently serves on the Executive Committee and is Chair of the Campus Planning / Building and Grounds Committee . Under Bob’s leadership, Gow has recently created a long-range campus and facilities plan.
For more information on The Gow School, go to: http://www.gow.org
Tags: Bob Vail, campus planning, Distinguished Alumnus, facilities planning, Gow School, Lynn Vail, Robert L. Vail, Robert Vail, The Gow School, Vail Network, VN Service, VN Services
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
 Welcome back decorations and "varmints" provided by his co-workers. We want to welcome back our colleague, Joe Morris, who has spent the past year doing the CPM scheduling for one of our clients at the Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project (DHOUP) for the Marathon Petroleum Company. He better be careful…. you never know what kind of varmints may have moved into his space while he was off exploring new job sites.
Tags: Chesterland, CPM scheduling, Detroit DHOUP, Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project, DHOUP, Joe Morris, Joseph W. Morris, Marathon DHOUP, Marathon Petroleum, Marathon Petroleum Company, project scheduling, VN Services
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