A Natural Fit
Helmets to Hardhats Program
By Christina Ianzito
IT'S 6 A.M. ON A TYPICAL WORKDAY, AND THERESA SHACKELFORD has shown up at the job site, a
half-finished office building in Reston. Wearing a bright-yellow hard hat, jeans and steel-toe work
boots, she's here to help the head mechanic replace the brake on one of the elevator motors. The
project will take almost five hours, because, she says, "we have to take the entire thing apart,
put it all back together and then test it." Then it's on to the next job.
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