August 13, 2025 Breakfast Meeting Notes
Our guest today was Jake’s girlfriend Pauline.
The 50/50 was won by Cari.
Raisa won the chance to draw for the ace of spades but was unsuccessful.
Denise announced that District Governor Luc Pomerleau will be visiting next week from Sherbrooke. He will speak to us on Wednesday and he will address the Bristol club on Thursday. Luc is a chiropractor from Magog, as well as a nature photographer and a gourmand and wine connoisseur.
Luc will stay at the Common Man Inn next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. If you would like to join him for dinner, please note that we have reservations for next Tuesday night at Foster’s (see signup sheet) at 6 pm. Phil and Mike have signed up for it; we have a reservation for 8 and the room can hold up to a dozen people. On Wednesday he will be dining at Yamas since he just got back from a trip to Greece and again, there is a signup sheet. He would like to go to Concord for the Common Man for Ukraine event, Voices from Ukraine, on Thursday night. This is a musical theater production, featuring 5 young Ukrainian actors. The show will be presented in several locations in New England.
This year’s District Conference will be a two day event in Canada.
Monday at noon, Whole Village will be holding its annual Pack a Pack event. It usually takes under an hour. Feel free to bring or drop off any back-to-school supplies.
Mike forwarded a request to Denise from an organization that is doing an event to End Hunger in Your Community (End Hunger New England Outreach). Denise is seeing if we can get donations for Community Closet. Each meal costs $.40 and the event will be held from 8-5 on Saturday Sept. 20. They need enough people to pack 20,000 meals and have them carried out that day. Meals will be cinnamon oatmeal and macaroni and cheese. The first 20,000 meals are covered and they are trying to raise enough money for 40,000. Denise will be getting more information.
Today’s speaker was our own Jake Tuck, of Tuck Home Services in Campton. The company provides construction and property maintenance services. Jake started doing carpentry with snow removal and lawn moving on the side. He grew up helping his dad with a homebuilding business and helping with the riding stable. He started working for other people at age 18. He’s done a variety of jobs, including milking cows, stocking shelves at Hannaford and Tractor Supply before getting back into construction. He formally founded his company in 2017 and hired his first employee.
From 2017-2021 the company grew slowly. Jake bought a dump truck which also served as a plow. At that point he had 25 lawn maintenance accounts and 60 snow removal routes. He worked out of his home for several years, with trucks parked on the lawn. In 2020 he was hired to maintain a property in Waterville Estates, as well as perform renovations on a second property owned by the same couple.
The business really started to grow in 2021 and in 2022 they rebranded as Tuck Home Services. The company now manages 230 snow removal customers. He has two partners, Jake and Jesse. Alan is the sales and people lead; Jesse is operations manager of snow removal and lawn maintenance, as well as finances. Jake is focused on construction projects, doing estimating. They have 3 offshore architects, one in Lebanon, one in Brazil, and one in Argentina, to provide design services. The rates for these people range from $10-30 an hour, far less than local architects. They hired a project manager this year.
They now have two office suites at Owl’s Nest and rent an acre of land in Thornton for equipment storage. Jake also built a garage at his house that serves as a workshop, with a lift and other equipment needed to maintain the fleet of vehicles. They are looking at consolidating to one location. The company now has 10 full time employees and a lot of part timers, 9 trucks, 12 trailers, 5 commercial mowers, a tractor and a small excavator. They offer employees a wide array of benefits, including AFLAC, a work phone, retirement p[an and medical, work-boot reimbursement, and two company events a year with live music, free food and drink.
Property maintenance includes snow removal and trash pickup, and spring and fall cleanups, while construction includes exterior projects like decks. They do some design and build projects like basements They do not do handyman stuff, and they don’t want to work with people who don’t value communication and quality. They will refer out small jobs.
Tuck Home Service is hoping to start a Snow Removal Charity Initiative this year. The plan is to provide plowing, sanding, and shoveling services for lower income seniors for free or at reduced price. They need to raise $2500-$5000 to cover the cost. They want to start in Campton-Thornton; they need help in identifying customers, raising the money, and implementing the project.
Cari announced that at 10 am this morning at 3 Mill Street in Meredith she will be doing a seminar on estate planning. She still has a few openings.
Alicia shared a happy dollar.
There will be a board meeting this Friday.
Respectfully submitted,
Lora Miller, secretary