[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             HAITI CHILDREN PROJECT FOUNDER S. WADE McGUINN

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 12, 2010

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, S. Wade McGuinn, who has 
an extensive record of helping the people of Haiti, is a member of the 
Home Builders Association of Greater Columbia and is founder and 
President of McGuinn Construction Management, Inc, and Custom Home 
Construction Management Systems, Inc (MCM and CHCMS). McGuinn's 
Construction, which serves as the only full service residential 
construction management firm in the Midlands, has constructed 1,700 
custom homes. He has built more homes in Columbia's metropolitan area 
than any other custom homebuilder in Columbia.
  Taking his business success to the next level, Wade has six land 
development projects--four of which have shattered sales records. All 
of the companies under Mr. McGuinn's business umbrella have overall 
sales exceeding 12 million dollars annually.
  What is most captivating is what Wade has chosen to do with all of 
this success. He has led several overseas mission trips to Haiti, 
Mexico, Honduras, and Cuba, serving as a construction team leader for 
the United Methodist Volunteers in Missions. Known as ``Father Wade'' 
to children at a Haitian orphanage, Wade and his wife, Janet, have 
solely supported an orphanage comprised of 29 children and seven staff 
members.
  Wade founded the Haiti Children Project with the purpose of providing 
food, shelter, clothing, health care and education through sponsorship, 
donations, and love. After the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti, 
Wade encouraged his fellow members in the Home Builders Association of 
Greater Columbia (HBA) to hold a charitable fundraiser for the Haiti 
Children project. Over 200 HBA members and their guests attended the 
event, raising over $10,000 to send to help the children in Haiti.
  I want to thank Wade and Janet for their selfless contributions in 
South Carolina and across the globe, especially Haiti in its time of 
extraordinary crisis.

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