McCarthy has long been a supporter of the Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis. In 2008, 10 Central Division employees, including Karl Kloster, former president of the Midwest Division banded together to improve the facilities at one of the region’s most recognizable boys and girls clubs.
Heart Hat volunteers patched and painted walls in one of the Club’s meeting rooms. A few folks, including Kloster, donned knee pads and laid ceramic tile in two large bathrooms at the facility.
Thanks to help from one of our flooring subcontractors, Flooring Systems, the old flooring was removed making it easy for McCarthy people to lay new tile. Flooring Systems donated the ceramic and worked alongside McCarthy to lay the new floor.
Since 1967, Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club has been providing a safe place for children to learn and grow. Their mission is to inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Founded on the site of historic Sportsman’s Park, former home to the St. Louis Browns and Cardinals baseball teams, the Club is a source of hope and opportunity for more than 3,500 youth.
Read more about the Club and how you can help.
About McCarthy Heart Hats
The McCarthy “Heart Hats” community involvement program is dedicated to encouraging, supporting and recognizing McCarthy employees’ volunteer efforts in a variety of causes to ensure real needs are being met in communities where employees work, live and play. McCarthy employees are as passionate about building better communities as they are about construction.
Founded in 1864, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is one of the oldest and largest commercial construction companies in the nation. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.
