{"id":371229,"date":"2025-11-11T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371229\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:26:13","slug":"asa-chicagos-pink-the-gcs-event-draws-hundreds-supports-breast-cancer-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/371229\/","title":{"rendered":"ASA Chicago\u2019s \u2018Pink the GCs\u2019 event draws hundreds, supports breast cancer awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/volunteers.png\" data-caption=\"Volunteers pictured left to right: Tina Harbin, Project Executive for Taylor Electric Company; Dan Barton, Account Manager for Bay Crane Midwest and ASA Chicago Vice President; Kathy Diaz, Commercial Sales Representative for Chicago Flameproof and ASA Chicago Expo Committee Co-Chair; Tony Rule, Vice President of Operations at Taylor Electric Company and ASA Chicago Golf Committee Co-Chair.&#10;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"670\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/volunteers.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"volunteers\"\/><\/a>Volunteers pictured left to right: Tina Harbin, Project Executive for Taylor Electric Company; Dan Barton, Account Manager for Bay Crane Midwest and ASA Chicago Vice President; Kathy Diaz, Commercial Sales Representative for Chicago Flameproof and ASA Chicago Expo Committee Co-Chair; Tony Rule, Vice President of Operations at Taylor Electric Company and ASA Chicago Golf Committee Co-Chair.<\/p>\n<p>ASA Chicago featured all 41 of its General Contractor Council members Oct. 7 in its annual Meet the GCs event. This year\u2019s theme supported breast cancer awareness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoconstructionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cobra.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cobra-300x289.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\"  \/><\/a>Special thanks to Event Sponsor: Cobra Concrete Cutting Services Co. who celebrated their 25th year in business and showed up in force to support an amazing cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over 600 people in attendance, the energy at ASA Chicago\u2019s \u201cPink the GCs\u201d event was electric,\u201d Michelle Schmidt, corporate services manager at True North Consultants. \u201cThe Breast Cancer Awareness theme hit home for me, as it has for so many of us. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cause touches lives deeply, reminding us to support, raise awareness, and fight for those affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone brought their brightest pink to honor the cause, and it was great reconnecting with industry friends, including several of our General Contractor clients whose passion for their projects lit up the room. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazing job, ASA Chicago, for pulling off such a powerful and lively event!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoconstructionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mchugh.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mchugh-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\"  \/><\/a>McHugh Construction \u2013 L to R \u2013 Syed Dayemi, Sr. Estimator; Andrew McDonough, Sr. Estimator.<\/p>\n<p>Watch for updates on the annual Construction Expo and Safety Conference is coming up March 3, a unique opportunity to connect with commercial construction industry peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers pictured left to right: Tina Harbin, Project Executive for Taylor Electric Company; Dan Barton, Account Manager for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-371229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115530353515997914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}