Teams concentrate on their bricks during the Journeymen event in last year’s competition. – Karen Kistler

Karen Kistler

karen.kistler@salisburypost.com

GOLD HILL — The sounds of trowels scraping mortar and tapping bricks and blocks will be heard as some temporary walls go up in Gold Hill, all part of the SPEC MIX Bricklayer 500 and North Carolina Masonry Education Day.

Scheduled for Oct. 2 at the Ben Ketchie Park, 16750 Old Beatty Ford Road, this will be the ninth annual event, which was started by Ryan Shaver of the North Carolina Masonry Contractors Association, who said this day was a vision he had.

Shaver said, with a chuckle, that he is north of 50 and has been in the masonry industry “a pretty good while,” ever since he took the class in 1989 at Mt. Pleasant High School.

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