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The Davey Bulletin | May/June 2017
The Chicago Cubs ended a historic
championship drought by winning the
2016 World Series, and a handful of
Davey Resource Group (DRG)
employees can say they played a part.
A team of DRG utility vegetation
management specialists spent each
home playoff and World Series game
inspecting utility power lines around
Wrigley Field. Their client, ComEd,
asked for the inspections – which took
place before the first pitch – to ensure
there were no power interruptions at
the stadium during the games.
August Ridder, project manager, DRG,
said they inspected the lines for any
signs of high-risk vegetation, such as
limbs leaning on or towards wires and
broken limbs above lines.
"Basically anything that could potentially
cause an outage that night," he said.
All total, Davey found three issues that
required a trimming crew to respond,
Ridder said. Best of all, the work
occurred within a 3-mile radius of the
ballpark, so they got to experience the
energy of the home crowds.
"It was kind of cool to see the whole
city pulling together for the Cubs to
shore up this championship and end a
108-year-old drought," Ridder said. "All of
our team members were enthusiastic
to do it. They all wanted to be a part
of it. And the lights didn't go out, and
that's the most important part."
LIGHTING THE
WAY FOR A CUBS WIN
DRG employees, from left, Tonya Dunsmoor, Mark Essick and Chloe Poole were part of
the team that ensured the lights stayed on for the Cubs historic 2016 World Series win.
Not pictured are Amber Lynch, Kaleb Smith and August Ridder.
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