Eric Lundberg has been with P.J. Keating for 35 years, and today May 27, 2021, we were honored to celebrate his retirement.

Eric has been an esteemed member of the P.J. Keating team since 1986, starting as a Sales Representative and advancing his career to Vice President of Commercial Sales. P.J. Keating will certainly miss Eric’s knowledge, work ethic, and professionalism, but we are excited for him to take on the next chapter of his life and enjoy the fruits of his labor. We wish him, his wife Karen, and the rest of his family good health and happiness. We hope he will enjoy many days on the golf course, out fishing, and spending time with his family.

Thank you, Eric, for all your years of service, and congratulations on your retirement. We wish you all the best!

Pictured from left to right is Jonathan Olson, P.J. Keating President, Christian Zimmermann, CRH AMAT New England Group President, Eric Lundberg, P.J. Keating VP Of Commercial Sales, Karen Lundberg and John Keating, Executive Vice President of AMAT.

P.J. Keating donated food to Shepherd’s Pantry in Acushnet, an organization in critical need of support during these difficult times. Our Acushnet crew proudly delivered the goods and represented our company during this amazing act of kindness.
Volunteers at the Shepherd’s Pantry expressed their gratitude to our team stating,

“We send our gratitude to all of you for your generous response to the needs of so many families hurting in these unusual times.”

At P. J. Keating we are always looking for ways to support our communities.

Every quarter here at PJK, we take the time to choose a charitable recipient to support for our quarterly donation drive. This month, Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts was that recipient! We’ve worked with Habitat for Humanity before and love the multi-faceted experience of working on their job sites. It’s not only a fantastic cause to support, but also allows us to work together as a team to give back to our local community and those who need it most.

We had so much interest from PJK Employees we had to split up our teams into two separate job sites! One team worked on building a ramp for a handicapped family in Fitchburg, MA while the other worked to help renovate a fire-damaged duplex in Acton, MA. We had a great time on both builds and might have walked away sweaty and sore, but feeling good and happy to help.

Last week was our 12th annual Field Trip for Skyview Middle School students and we had a great time hosting them! By Thursday over 300 sixth graders from our local middle school have traveled through the P.J. Quarry and Plant here in Lunenburg to learn all about our Aggregates and Asphalt production. Can you believe we’ve been hosting bus tours for Skyview students for 12 years?

A big thank you to Dave, Kendra, Cody and our Interns Camden, Grace, Anna and Kaleigh for being great tour guides, and the students and teachers from Skyview for asking so many questions! Students learned about what types of rocks are in our Lunenburg Quarry, all the different measurements of stone we carry and waved to the truckers getting loaded with Asphalt.

It’s a highlight of the year for PJK, we’re looking forward to continuing the tradition!

Here we see Environmental, Health & Safety Manager Kendra and Quarry Manager Cody explain to students how high each bench of the Quarry is. (It’s 50 feet – if you were curious too!)

Dave Normandin had all eyes on him when he told the students we were blasting that day. We promise we’ll wait until the bus leaves the quarry!

Students were enthralled by our stone piles, giant trucks and crusher!

P. J. Keating is Paving the way for Santa’s Sleigh!

Last Friday, P. J. Keating donated a  decorated tree to the Lancaster Festival of Trees. Thank you to CNwood, Woodco, and Schmidt Equipment for your generous donations that contributed to making this happen. If you’re interested in visiting, find more information about the Festival of Trees here:.http://www.telegram.com/…/lancasters-4-h-tree-festival-open…

Happy Holidays from PJK!

For our third quarter donation drive, we teamed up with the Habitat for Humanity MetroWest/Greater Worcester team again to donate our efforts and a driveway!

On Thursday November 9th, employees from the P. J. Keating Lunenburg and Acushnet Offices got together in the chilly weather to work on two Habitat houses in Holliston, MA. They helped install vent work in the attic, prep the skirt for the shed, worked on the front porch and other various tasks to get the two houses closer to their move-in dates!

But we weren’t done just yet! Our paving crews were back the next week to donate a wonderful driveway to Mona and her family who will soon be the owners of the new Habitat home! We’re more than happy to donate our services and efforts to helping out our local community, and we’re very proud of all our teams and crews who came out to help.

See some photos of our teams in action below or on our Facebook.

Everyone got their hands dirty Wednesday, April 9th for our quarterly donation drive. This quarter, our employees took the day to work with Habitat for Humanity, North Central Massachusetts chapter at one of their jobsites in Fitchburg and their ReStore in Leominster.

P. J. Keating is honored to donate our time and efforts in helping out a great cause. Those who worked at the ReStore assisted with yardwork, fixing up and stocking shelves while employees on the Jobsite in Fitchburg built a front and back deck on a house that Habitat is building for a lovely family of 9. We had the chance to get to know some of the family throughout the day and couldn’t be happier to help support our local community.

Here’s to another successful quarter of donation drives at P. J. Keating!

P. J. Keating’s Second Quarter Donation Drive was again a great success in helping raise donations and items in the theme of “Spring Cleaning Time”.

Thanks to generous donations by staff P. J. Keating was able to make donations to New Hope, Ginny’s Helping Hand and Sophie’s Mission, organizations who all do great work providing food, clothing and shoe pantries as well as domestic violence services throughout Massachusetts.

P. J. Keating is proud to assist their community and would like to thank all who donated, contributions totaled over $300 and 200+ items of clothes, shoes, non-perishable foods and a variety of household necessities. Thanks to the generosity and support of all who participated P. J. Keating is able to help provide for these charities doing meaningful work for the people within our State.

We here at P. J. Keating look forward to many more successful months of donation drives ahead and would like to share a Thank You letter from New Hope, Inc to showcase how our employees donations impact their charity and the work they are able to do. Every item helps!

This June, P.J. Keating opened their doors to more than 300 sixth graders from Sky View Middle School for their 11th annual field trip. P.J. Keating has been welcoming students from Sky View in Lunenburg for years, giving students a closer look at what goes on in P.J. Keating’s quarry and asphalt plant.

Students were first given a presentation by Dan Brodeur, Oldcastle Energy and former QC manager, about what exactly goes on at P.J. Keating. They learned about safety, recycling, and how rock can go from the walls of a quarry all the way down to the asphalt in the roads and the piles of stone they’d soon see on their tour. Dan brought with him samples of cores pulled from roads, and tins showing the stages and steps that stone goes through for students to handle and examine. He also quizzed students about different types of rock that they learned in their Science classes and described the kind that can be found on the P.J. Keating site. (Primarily gneiss.)

Over three days, more than 300 students were shown through the quarry and asphalt plant by bus (given their own personal bump caps for safety) to take in the sights, learn about the process and get a better understanding of what P.J. Keating does. Students were captivated watching the huge dump trucks, getting up close with the Asphalt silos and seeing the depths of the quarry. They saw and learned brand new things on their field trip; like that P.J. Keating is on top a fault line and uses about the same about of electricity as all the homes in Lunenburg.

The tour and presentations are designed to integrate with Sky Views’ Earth Science and Math curriculum and teachers were given packets filled with material they could examine along with their students back in the classroom. Each bus tour was accompanied by a P.J. Keating employee and students were encouraged to ask their tour guides questions to further their learning and discover new things. Students were given bump caps to keep as well as Earth Ball and Granite Rock squeeze toys.

P.J. Keating values getting involved with our local community and is happy to see such interested and enthusiastic children excited to learn about stone and asphalt. We want to thank all our employees and tour guides for their participation as well as Sky View Middle School for their visit and continued enthusiasm and appreciation for our work!

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