b'Industry NewsSika Corporation Partners with Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago to Rehabilitate a Community Center for Disadvantaged Youth on September 8thSika Corporation to invest in the future of Chicago by volunteering their time, providing Sika materials and skilled trade labor to rehabilitate non-profit organization, YOUth CAN.Lyndhurst, NJS ika Corporation, a manufacturer and supplier of specialty products for building construction, industry and automotive markets, announced that they will be partnering with Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago to help rehabilitate the YOUth CAN community center building. YOUth CAN is an integral non-profitbuilding repairs.organization in the Austin community of Chicago. Along with volunteering their time on September 8th to assistAccording to Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, in the rehabilitation, they will donate Sika products toGive Back Day sponsors and volunteers have worked to address the building repair needs. improve over 200 community facilities in Chicago to YOUth CAN provides low-income individuals anddate.youth with education in music, art, and computerPlease contact Brian Blaquiere for more information: technology. They strive to give youth the tools andblaquiere.brian@us.sika.comconfidence they need to excel both academically andAbout Sika:Sika is a specialty chemicals company with artistically.Through our upcoming partnership witha leading position in the development and production of Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago, we hope to helpsystems and products for the building and construction make a positive and lasting investment in the city ofindustries as well as manufacturing sector (automotive, bus, Chicago, said Jay Thomas, VP Marketing, Roofing andtruck, rail, building and alternative energies components, Flooring for Sika. etc.) Sika has subsidiaries in 91 countries around the world Sika employees and their leadership team will volunteerand manufactures in over 160 factories. Its approximately their time during a Give Back Day on September17,000 employees generated annual sales of CHF 5.6 billion 8th 2016. Give Back Days are hands-on, volunteer- in 2014. driven days of service and typically include painting,Visit Sika Corporations website at usa.sika.com and landscaping, organizing, cleaning, and various otherSika AGs website at www.sika.comSMRCA Announces Scholarship WinnersWarren, MI Committee presented the awards.T he Governors for the Scholarship Grant CommitteeInitiated over 20 years ago, this awarded four Scholarship Grants to college boundprogram is an example of the students at a June 2016 meeting held at the Roofers UnionSMRCA/Roofers Union Local #149 and SMRCA Member Local #149 office in Detroit, MI. Commercial RoofingContractors working to promote continued education and Contractors of Southeastern Michigan, through theto encourage industry dependents to attend college.Southeastern Michigan Roofing Contractors AssociationFor More information please contact Heather Hadley SMRCA (SMRCA), along with the Roofers Union Local #149586-759-2140annually award college scholarships to dependents of employees of member roofing contractors.This years winners were: Ashley Arnold, Sterling Heights; Ryan Cronk, Macomb; Ashlie Hawe, Shelby Twp.; and Elise Tomaszewski, St. Clair Shores.Applicants were asked to submit an essay by selecting one or more of the following topics: Roofing Technology, Roofing Safety, Roofing Impact or Roofing Ethics to the Joint Union/Contractor Scholarship Committee. Winners receive Scholarships in the amount of $1000.00 contributed2016 Roofers Union Local #149/Roofing Industry Promotion by the SMRCA, Roofers Union Local #149 and theFund Scholarship Grant Winners pictured from left to right: Mark Peterson (Governor), Elise Tomaszewski, Ryan Cronk, Ashlie Hawe.Contractor Employer. The Governors of the ScholarshipNot pictured: Ashley Arnold.30 www.mrca.orgMidwest Roofer'