b'TRAINING & EDUCATION Self-improvement/continuingan uplifting experience. When this education15% fast-paced world in which we liveMentoring/leading others10% demandsthatitbedonemore Thewinnersreceiveround-triprapidly with get by quality, these airfare for two to Coverings 2021,entrantseschewthatnotionand hotel accommodations for a three- provedtheirdedicationtoqual-night stay and will be recognizedityoneachoftheinstallations during NTCA Awards Night duringreviewed.Itisbothpleasingand the show.humblingtoknowthatthereare Nyle Wadford, a residential cat- still tile installers today that adhere egoryjudge,noted,Iamhon- to these practices. Congratulations ored to be chosen to judge theseto all the entrants. Theyre all win-entries.Viewingtheirworkandners in my book!their dedication to their craft wasLets meet our winners!Tile Setter Craftsperson of the YearCommercialFerid Hasic,thelocal.HealsoholdsaStone Grazzini Brothers & Company Mason Journeyman card. HasicgrewupinBosniaandWith levels of increasing respon-learnedthesibilityfromtilesettertofore-tiletrademanwithGrazziniBrothers,he fromathirdsupervises up to 45 workers, while generationmentoringcrewandoverseeing tilesetterinprojects.Hemakesitapointto Germany. Heset tile every day, becoming a role and his fam- model for crew members. ilymovedIfIshowthepeoplebymy totheU.S.workinghard,theywillwork inJanuary,hard, Hasic said. I take pride in 1998 and hemy work and want to set a good became a naturalized U.S. citizen.example. I strive for no punch list His excellent training in Germanyoneveryjob.Itisimportantfor allowed him to skip additional train- the people to see that I put myself ing with the International Union ofin their shoesboth my crew and Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkersthe company. I want to do a good (BAC)LocalUnion1Minnesota,job,sothecompanygetsmore demonstrate his skill and obtain hisjobs.Ifthecompanyprospers,I TileSetterJourneymancardwithwill prosper. 88TileLetter | October 2020'