WINNEMUCCA - A ceremony will be held on Wednesday at 10 a.m. to celebrate a partnership between the mining industry and a domestic violence program.
Scrap Domestic Violence (ScrapDV) will be accepting their first corporate scrap metal donation from Goldcorp Marigold Mines and Boart Longyear at the CarWil headquarters located at 5500 Westmoreland Road in Winnemucca. A newly founded non-profit organization, ScrapDV is planning on utilizing the money earned from recycling scrap steel to assist domestic violence organizations by providing funding through grant opportunities across Nevada.
The bucket list to address the rising incidence of violence to women within marriage and social partnership, a matter in which Nevada almost doubles the national average, will be highly symbolic ... the donation of a 35-cubic-yard bucket from Goldcorp Marigold. (This bucket is capable of filling 140 pickups of dirt in one scoop.) The transfer of the recycling rights to this giant device, the size of a small house, will initiate the ambitious funding program being launched by ScrapDV.
ScrapDV, a Nevada non-profit, and members of the state's agency addressing the plague of domestic violence, NCPDV, and key mining leaders will gather in - yes, in - a giant "bucket," an enormous metal carrier which will be the first scrap item whose recycling by Scrap DV will bring hundreds of thousands of dollars to the education and care designed to reduce the horrendous toll now inflicted by domestic partners.
Among the participants will be Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, an active member of the anti-domestic violence leadership, and Scrap DV founder Kristin Carriere, a partner in the engineered mining solutions firm of CarWil which has taken leadership in the design and execution of the Scrap DV agenda to fund the raising of awareness and medical and social services to the 2 in 5 women in the state who will suffer such abuse and the 1 out of 3 who will suffer rape.
"This new active and generous participation by our state's mining industry has meaning which goes far beyond the great funding it represents," Carriere noted. "It will communicate to the employees of these firms that their companies are committed to this important community crusade to protect our state's women and children. It will draw them into that process and engage them in communication with friends who may be dealing with these domestic crimes. It will itself be a powerful educational process as these employees gain awareness of the purpose of the recyclable metals they will help gather."
According to The Steel Recycling Institute (www.recycle-steel.org), "Steel is North America's Number #1 Recycled Material. Each year, more steel is recycled than aluminum, paper, glass and plastic combined!" Buckets are only one of a number of products used and quickly rendered unusable in the mining process, producing a huge and constantly growing recyclable supply of scrap steel which may be utilized for ScrapDV's financial support.
Carriere is a partner (with her husband Scott) in CarWil, a major custom steel fabrication and steel product manufacturer for the mining industry. Currently all proceeds from CarWil's scrap metal is donated to the organization.
The extensive areas in which such used steel has until now been deposited are called "bone yards," and, Carriere points out, "they now will become the backbone of our efforts to protects our state's most abused population." Make no bone about it ... Scrap DV is out to put an end to Nevada's record of domestic violence.
Goldcorp, with its contribution of the Hitachi 5500 Bucket, joins CarWil and Boart Longyear who have agreed to donate all or some of the proceeds from their steel recycling bins to Scrap DV. Scrap DV is working to convince other mining companies and contractors to make the same commitment.
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