Jim Parks knew when he started getting knots in his stomach on Sunday afternoons from just thinking about the coming workweek that being a lawyer was not for him.
The Milwaukee NARI Home Improvement Council and its charitable arm, the Milwaukee NARI Foundation, have donated tools and equipment valued at nearly $1,900 to the construction labs at New Berlin West and New Berlin Eisenhower high schools.
Berghammer Construction was founded in 1929, but it was reborn in 1988. That’s the year Leif Nesheim, president of the Butler-based general contractor, bought the former family company for $2,000.