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Tom Ralston receives 1st Place for Best Specialty Project from The American Concrete Contractor Society's President Bev Garnett at the 2013 World of Concrete. Judges were impressed the overall project and with how the crews of Tom Ralston Concrete met the challenge of making a mold of a 5-million year old whale bone and then casting it, staining it and successfully mounting it in the serpentine Geo Strata Terrace project in Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz, California.
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Photo Credit: Dan CoyroBy Cathy Kelly at Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ -- An artist and others are creating a native garden along West Cliff Drive, in part to combat drug and litter problems at a picturesque oceanfront spot there.
Karen Toole, an artist and interior designer, became interested in the area while working at a home across the street.
The overlook area a bit east of the Shrine of St. Joseph previously had a raised mound of dirt with shrubbery, two benches and a dirt path. People sitting on the benches were not visible from the street.
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Tom Ralston Concrete took top honors at the 2009 World of Concrete for Best Structural project, Best Artistic Project and Best Concrete Countertop. TRC was estatic hearing the news. The awards only fueled TRC's creative fire which has provided strong impetus to continue producing stellar decorative concrete projects.
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Tom Ralston Concrete featured as Picture of the Week ConcreteNetwork.- Details
For decades there was heated arguing over who was the legitimate Surf City, Santa Cruz of Northern California or Huntington Beach of Southern California. In April of 2010 it was proclaimed by Mike Rotkin that Santa Cruz was indeed the legitimate Surf City which was ascertained by factual evidence that Three Hawaiian Princes surfed the San Lorenzo Rivermouth and were guests of the Swan Family of Santa Cruz.
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Commenting in the book on stamping tools Tom says: “The tool needs to look and feel sturdy,” says Tom Ralston of Tom Ralston Concrete, Santa Cruz, Calif. And the only way you can determine that is by touching and feeling the tool. He pays special attention to the handles and how they are molded into the tool itself. “The handles need to be thick and made from sturdy nylon,” he says.