In the past months, IBEW Local 229 has made numerous appearances at area high schools to talk about the exciting career opportunities in the IBEW and show support for the high schools and their leadership. The schools that Local 229 has attended so far are Dallastown area High School, Fairfield High School, Central York High School and York Area Technical School. Local 229 members Travis Brown, Josh Shultz, Fred Olafsson, Scott Moul, and Training Director Bruce Brown all participated.

IBEW members working for Jno. Z. Barton Inc. are hard at work on the Manheim Elementary School Project. The Job is a renovation of the existing school plus additions. Barton's foreman Local 143 member Greg Smolenskey is excited to be running the project and is sure that it will be a success story. Local 229 members Dennis Egbert, Alan Smith, & Fred Olafsson are on site and hard at work with underground and distribution conduits.

When construction began in 2001, The Susquehanna Commerce Center was the largest and most ambitious commercial development in the City of York. IBEW contractor G.R. Sponaugle & Sons Inc. performed all the electrical systems work on the project which included-