To promote and support Britain's bricklaying competitor, Mick Daffern, the country's largest, most popular online newspaper, Express & Star, posted a video interview with Mick on their web site. Mick, the "Brickie" has no problem stating he plans on returning to Wolverhampton, England with the champion title—19 US competitors will have a different opinion on the final results. Is there a bricklaying Ryder Cup in the making?

Masons from Britain regularly go to the www.specmixbricklayer500.com web site to follow the world's largest bricklaying competition. In addition, another member of the British Commonwealth, Canada, is sending a competitor for the first time in 2008, Ken Rutley, a mason from Medicine Hat, Alberta, will lay brick for our good neighbor to the North.

This is an exciting new global development that will build new interest in the SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500, and masonry, in the USA and other countries as well as we build bonds and communications bridges to bricklayers from other countries in the spirit of competition. If you are going to be in Las Vegas, in January, please take the time to greet these new competitors and show them a warm welcome to the event.

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