June 2024 Taplin Family Focus Newsletter

June Birthdays

Robert “Bob” Bryant 6/4

INTEGRITY | SAFETY | CUSTOMER FOCUS | INTENSITY | TRAINING | TEAMWORK

INTEGRITY | SAFETY | CUSTOMER FOCUS | INTENSITY | TRAINING | TEAMWORK

Cathy Rhodes 6/4

Brandon Klopf 6/5

Ryan Brown 6/5

Kelsey Verwys 6/6

Thomas Gross 6/9

Austin Ulch 6/10

Jeremy Koss 6/13

Aaron Wright 6/13

Timothy Nichols 6/16

Justin Davidson 6/19

Max Shaw 6/19

Holly Walter 6/19

Rhett Engleright 6/26

David Mott 6/27

Cliff Turner 6/28

Daniel Zielinski (Jr/II) 6/29

July Birthdays

Jay Guilliam II - 7/2

Andrew Callahan – 7/4

Axel Cruz-Salazar - 7/11

Kris Heckman – 7/12

Shane Stanley – 7/16

Randall Bridge Jr – 7/21

Alexander Gray – 7/23

“Butch” Dake – 7/25

DeUndre Hayes – 7/26

Saturday, June 22nd

Homer Stryker Field

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Brea Zuydwegt Division: Shop Welder/ Fabricator

Zach Wright Division: IS Laborer

“All in a days work” - Russell Wright up to his elbows in equipment repair @ Allied! And while SBT did have to mention to Russell a couple key safety items missing here, there’s no doubt about the delivery or quality in his work Thanks for all you do, Russell!

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Please see the attached shop parking map Please park in the designated areas. The biggest issue we are having are employees parking their personal vehicles right by the front door. This area is for visitors and as a pick up and drop off area.

Thank you.

Brian Williams Fleet Maintenance Manager

Congrats to Andrew and Lexie Belcher (and the whole Belcher crew!)

Cora Grace Belcher

6/10/2024

8lbs 4oz | 21" long

Training Academy Videos

Great job to Tyler Mayes and Harvey Hernandez for their work on creating the first of hopefully many Taplin training videos!

These (and future video projects) will be part of the new hire onboarding process and will soon become required training.

If you have suggestions for future training video ideas (or if you’d like to help with video production, please email Alexis.

June Safety Awards

Dan O’Hara - High quality LPO with attention to detail

James Dixon - Very detailed LPO

Jay Guilliam - Excellent approach to the task in hand

Victor Battisti - Victor’s attentiveness to what was going on around him, and then immediately reporting his observations, helped with quickly moving equipment out of the way and diagnosing the issue before damage to the truck occurred.

24.1 Pre-Trip Inspection How-To

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If you ’ re tired of living paycheck If you ’ re tired of living paycheck to paycheck and want to learn to paycheck and want to learn better personal finance habits, better personal finance habits, join us for an evening Money join us for an evening Money Management roundtable Management roundtable ddiscussion. iscussion.

We will discuss financial We will discuss financial resources available to Taplin resources available to Taplin employees (retirement accounts, employees (retirement accounts, Financial Peace University, Financial Peace University, Employee Assistance Fund, etc.) Employee Assistance Fund, etc.) as well as discussing how to make as well as discussing how to make smarter decisions with your money. smarter decisions with your money. Open to all Taplin employees Open to all Taplin employees and their spouses/significant and their spouses/significant oothers. thers. Email Alexis Email Alexis to be added to be added to the list to attend. to the list to attend.

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Up to 64% of Americans Are On Pace to Retire BROKE ��

Money is a Leading Source of Stress for Nearly Half of all US Adults Stats About Personal Finance in America:

66% of Americans are Living Paycheck-toPaycheck in 2024

The Average American Debt Load is $104,000 – up ⬆ more than 11% from previous years