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BRIEFS ACTIVITIES & APPOINTMENTS PRODUCERS Paris-based Lafarge Group has appointed as senior leaders for Canada and U.S.-bordering businesses Bob Cartmel, six Eastern Provinces, and René Thibault, four Western Provinces, three Territories, plus the Dakotas and the Pacific Northwest. Based in Toronto and Calgary, respectively, they are responsible for all operational, marketing and functional elements of aggregate, asphalt, cement, con- crete (ready-mix, pipe and precast), and con- struction and paving operations. Cartmel has 25-plus years of experience with Lafarge spanning Canada, the U.S. and Latin America, and holds a Bachelor of Busi- ness Administration degree from Wilfrid Lau- rier University. Thibault has 20-plus years of experience with Lafarge spanning Canada and including an assignment at Group headquar- ters; he holds an Engineering degree from Queen's University and has completed execu- tive studies at Harvard Business School. By bringing all businesses together under a single leader in each geography, Lafarge Group notes, the appointments will provide further career development opportunities for employ- ees, strengthen the company's customer ap- proach as it delivers sustainable solutions to the construction industry, and allow commu- nity investment projects to be more focused. To mark the 100-year anniversary of par- ent company Holcim Ltd., the Waltham- based headquarters of Holcim (US) Inc. is participating in a year-long community service initiative called Together for Commu- nities, in which Holcim employees lead local volunteer projects around Massachusetts. In May and June, volunteers plan on preparing dinner for students, staff and graduates at the Epiphany School in Dorch- ester and helping 5th and 6th graders with homework assignments. Holcim has also planned several reading events at the Nat- ick Public Schools, where it will provide a book to each student, and a copy of each of these books to the school's library. In addition, Holcim volunteers led a 2012 Earth Day Charles River Clean Up in Newton. Holcim volunteers will also serve lunch at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans in Boston during the months of June and Octo- ber. Holcim Ltd hopes to engage as many of its 80,000 worldwide employees as possible to volunteer for one day in their community. ORGANIZATIONS Ronald "Ron" Summers, senior vice presi- dent, Materials Group, for Glendora, Calif.- based CalPortland Co., was elected National Sand, Stone and Gravel Association 2012 Chairman of the Board during the group's annual convention in Charlotte, N.C. "Ron Summers is a champion of our as- sociation and is widely recognized as an industry veteran with an overarching un- derstanding of the aggregates business that he applies to the needs faced by the industry as a whole," said NSSGA Presi- dent and CEO Joy Pinniger. "His leader- ship will continue to enhance NSSGA's strength as a unifying voice of the aggre- gates industry from coast to coast neces- sary for today's challenges." The American Concrete Institute has named James Wight, FACI, FASCE, president of the Institute for 2012-2013. Wight is the Frank E. Richart Jr. Collegiate Professor of 20 | MAY 2012 WWW.CONCRETEPRODUCTS.COM