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Giving Back To The Community

James Jasso — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:51:11 +0000

Giving Back

Every year we like to make some kind of donation, whether it be a donation of time or of money. Back in 2020/2021 we did numerous park clean-ups. A handful of volunteers from our crew and their family got together at different parks in disenfranchised communities and cleaned up as much garbage as could be found.

We usually filled 10-12 large garbage bags in a matter of hours! In 2022 we donated our time and expertise to a local radio station for an arbor day event. Some trees were donated to them and they needed the know-how to properly plant them, which we happily agreed to provide. This year, in 2023, we are proud to sponsor the Menomonee Falls Little League!

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Company Outings

James Jasso — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:43:51 +0000

Company Outings!

Every year, in the Fall, after our extremely busy Spring and Summer months, we like to plan a company trip to thank our employees for all their hard work. Our first ever official company outing was a fishing charter out in Port Washington. We all went out for food, stayed overnight in a hotel, and then woke up at 4:30am for a 5 hour trip out on Lake Michigan. We caught all kinds of salmon and trout, all of which was cut and prepared for us to take home. Most of us got pretty seasick and we had some good laughs about that. It was an awesome feeling to pull in those large fish. Some of us were new to the feeling and some of us veterans, but each of us enjoyed it all the same.

This past year, after a successful season, we were able to afford a larger trip for our employees. We took a trip to Las Vegas! We stayed at the Luxor Hotel (the big pyramid!). There weren’t many activities planned so our group split up and did whatever interested them most. Some gambled quite a bit, some won and some lost! Some spent lots of time relaxing in or around the hotel pool. Others took a guided tour through and around the Grand Canyon. We all got together for a large festival on Fremont Street and had quite a difficult time finding our way back to the hotel (which made for some fun stories after the fact). We got to enjoy a few nice meals together as a whole group. It was a great way to build memories together outside of our usual day-to-day responsibilities.

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Groppi’s Food Market Project

James Jasso — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:41:36 +0000

Old Milwaukee Pavers

Established in 1913, G. Groppi Food Market has been a staple in the Bayview area for a long time. When a building has been around that long, people take notice of even the smallest changes. In the fall of 2021, Anne Nehring, current owner of the food market, decided that it was time to replace the turf area outside her store. While this change was by no means small, people certainly took notice of New Vision’s patio space addition to the iconic food market. The patio even found a place in the 2022 summer edition of the Bay View Historian (BVHS-Historian-2022-06_email.pdf (bayviewhistoricalsociety.org) See page six). What made the patio space especially unique was the use of repurposed bricks salvaged from locations all over Milwaukee by our friends at The Brickyard Inc.

The use of repurposed bricks posed a number of interesting challenges for the New Vision Crew. For starters, even at the time of their creation most of the bricks were different sizes, being manufactured by different companies. Over time the bricks had been weathered through use, furthering the differences in shapes and sizes. This made piecing together the bricks especially challenging. On top of that, each brick is stamped with the name of their manufacturer. Out of respect for the original manufacturers, and with general aesthetics in mind, each brick was placed with the manufacturers name facing the same direction. This way each manufacturer could be clearly identified by any passing admirer of the patio. New Vision Landscaping was happy to take on these challenges and they were well worth the efforts. The use of repurposed bricks gives the appearance that the patio space has aged right alongside G. Groppi Food Market from the start.

-Progress Shots-

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Groppi’s Food Market

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