Alex Ralske, a seventh-grader at Petaluma Junior High School, picks up a safety cone with an excavator with the help of Joe Cox of Coggins Fence and Supply during the Careers in Construction Expo hosted by the North Coast Builders Exchange at the Veterans Building in Santa Rosa, Calif., on October 10, 2013. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat)
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