Mr. Bert Bell

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  www.news-miner.com/cda/article/cdaNMOArticleDetail/0,10 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/17/2001    Last Visited: 12/25/2001  

  Bert Bell, president of Ghemm Co., said the challenge is to synchronize operations so the library can operate while it is being rebuilt.

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  Published on: 5/14/2005    Last Visited: 5/15/2005  

  New Life founder Bertha Bell says she has lived a very hard life.
  
  "Being molested as a child to being abused as adult, struggling with an alcohol addiction which thankfully, I'm pretty much clean and clear of, but during that time, I've been homeless, I've gone the gambit," Bell said."I shouldn't even be standing here, I'm supposed to be dead today, and by the grace, I am standing here."
  
  15 years ago, Bell says she found God and combined her new found faith and her past life experience to create New Life, a non-profit that provides safe houses for abused women and children.
  
  "Women who are ex-prostitutes, women coming out of prison, women who have been abused and have finally decided they've had enough," Bell said.
  
  Bell and her husband Edward run the non-profit with the help of volunteers.They work long hours, have little money, but feel satisfied.
  
  "The satisfaction that we get is the gratitude that we get from people that we can help," Mr. Bell said.
  
  New Life does not get any government funding so they sell merchandise at the New Life Thrift Store on 524 Airline Highway in Laplace to pay the bills.But the store is not bringing in enough money, so the Bell's are working on a new business.
  
  "That's another dream my wife had, it's a coffee shop, she not only wants to serve coffee here, but she wants to spread the word of the Lord," Mr. Bell said.
  
  But the coffee shop is being built on loans and the bills are piling up.
  
  "We're 10,000 dollars in the hole.And unless we come up with that 10,000 dollars pretty soon by the beginning of June we're gonna be in real trouble," Mrs. Bell said.
  
  That trouble could mean an end to New Life altogether.Bell says power at the safe houses will be shut off next week, because she cannot pay the utilities.But Bertha Bell and her husband have not stopped working on the coffee shop.She says she has faith that God will help her find the money to keep New Life alive and soon she and the women she houses will be serving coffee at "God's House of Refuge."
  
  Bertha Bell says she needs at least $3,000 to keep the lights on.She wants to get the coffee shop up and running by July 4th but she needs at least $10,000 to do it.

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  Bert Bell GHEMM Company, Inc.

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  Published on: 2/13/2006    Last Visited: 2/13/2006  

  "It helps to make the industry a more reliable source of income for those tradesmen who need a year-round income," said Bert Bell, president of GHEMM Co., a general contractor based in Fairbanks.
  
  His company is completing its fourth winter of work building the new 500,000-plus-square-foot military hospital on Fort Wainwright, scheduled to be completed in early 2006.
  
  Winter construction work kicked off in a substantial way in Interior Alaska during the oil pipeline days, Bell said.GHEMM Co. spent one winter in the early 1980s building the Big Dipper Ice Arena, starting construction in August with a completion deadline the following March, in order for the facility to accommodate the Arctic Winter Games, Bell said."We were spending $1,000 a day just to heat the facility," he said.
  
  Winter work slows employees, who have to take more safety precautions, Bell said.Additionally, construction efficiency oftentimes slows, in part because many materials that normally would be stored outside the facility in summer months must be contained within the heated shell in winter, forcing workers to jostle items around the limited available space.
  
  "There are all kinds of economic reasons not to build in the winter, but it's almost become the industry standard up here," Bell said.

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  Alaska Journal of Commerce Online - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/14/2005    Last Visited: 2/14/2005  

  "It was huge ... (2004) was a monster year for construction up here," said Bert Bell, president of GHEMM Co., one of the major contractors in Fairbanks.
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  "For us, the bulk of money is federal money, which was certainly the biggest impact up here last year," Bell said.
  
  His company worked on several projects at Fort Wainwright, including construction of a hotel, Bassett Army Community Hospital and power plant renovations.
  
  In addition to Fairbanks-area military spending, construction continued in 2004 to accommodate missile defense capabilities at Fort Greeley.Pogo Mine construction kicked off in 2004, as did construction of a new power plant in North Pole.
  
  More recently, talk about the natural gas pipeline has intensified, Bell noted, with "a bit more optimism now.
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  The level of construction in the Fairbanks area "...has tapped the personnel resources to handle it, from top management on down to the apprentice level," Bell said.

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  Published on: 6/6/2002    Last Visited: 6/6/2002  

  In early May, workers began pouring concrete for the 32-bed, 269,000-square-foot hospital, said Bert Bell, president of Fairbanks-based Ghemm Co.
  
  Work on the $178 million construction contract should be complete by June 2006.
  
  Other project construction tasks this summer will include erecting steel over the clinic and enclosing the central energy plant, which Bell hopes will permit some winter construction.
  
  Because the project extends over years, the general contractors are setting up offices at the site.
  
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  "The bulk of the work is way out in front of us," Bell said.
  
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District awarded the contract in February to build a hospital replacing the 50-year-old Bassett Army Hospital.
  
  The contract award, for one of the largest construction projects in Alaska, comes a year after the original bid and construction start timeline.
  
  Construction was originally to begin in summer 2001.However, the Corps canceled the process in January 2001 without awarding a contract, citing high prices received in bids.

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  In early May, workers began pouring concrete for the 32-bed, 269,000-square-foot hospital, said Bert Bell, president of Fairbanks-based Ghemm Co.
  
  Work on the $178 million construction contract should be complete by June 2006.
  
  Other project construction tasks this summer will include erecting steel over the clinic and enclosing the central energy plant, which Bell hopes will permit some winter construction.
  
  Because the project extends over years, the general contractors are setting up offices at the site.
  
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  "The bulk of the work is way out in front of us," Bell said.
  
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District awarded the contract in February to build a hospital replacing the 50-year-old Bassett Army Hospital.
  
  The contract award, for one of the largest construction projects in Alaska, comes a year after the original bid and construction start timeline.
  
  Construction was originally to begin in summer 2001.However, the Corps canceled the process in January 2001 without awarding a contract, citing high prices received in bids.

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  Alaska Railroad News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/2005    Last Visited: 8/4/2008  

  Ghemm Company president Bert Bell's first job after high school was to ride the Pioneer Park train while playing the part of an inept deputy who fails to stop a staged train robbery.
  
  Now, several decades later, his construction company is building a $1.6 million depot for that train.

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  The Construction Crew--C.B. Bettisworth and Tracey Johnson of Charles Bettisworth and Company, with Sig Bredlie and Bert Bell of GHEMM Company take a break from the construction project to attend HIPOW.

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  Published on: 7/6/2001    Last Visited: 2/26/2002  

  ''Not often does a project of this size come to this area,'' said Bert Bell, president of GHEMM Construction Co.
  
  Work on the proposed 259,500-square-foot building can start this spring.So far, $3.8 million has been spent on design.
  
  The new facility will have 32 beds, down from the roughly 200 now at the Bassett.The reduction reflects the shift of medical care to preventive medicine and outpatient care.
  
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  Bell said Dick Pacific Corp. had the financial backing and GHEMM had the local contacts and knowledge of climate constraints to tackle the project.GHEMM also has done construction jobs at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
  
  ''We found that we deal the same way.We liked the joint venture,'' Bell said.
  
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