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contractor of the year finalist | by Marcia Gruver Doyle | MGruver@randallreilly.com Jane Page Kernersville, North Carolina Page & Associates Year started: 1979 Number of employees: 25 Annual volume: $3 to $5 million Markets served: Site development, general construction, utilities, curbing and sidewalks T he entrepreneurial spirit runs deep in the Page family. As a child, Jane Page saw her parents run a clothing store and then a sandwich shop. After her father died, her mother became the ���rst female insurance agent in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And when Jane got married, she and her husband did it all ��� from delivering advertising circulars to peeling potatoes for commercial salad makers to maintaining rental properties. ���I knew I had to work hard to get what I wanted and what I wanted was a hearth and home,��� Jane says. But don���t let this grandmother of eight fool you. She���s got a core of steel beneath a Southern graciousness, a determination that���s been tested in the recent downturn. ���We���ve had to get creative because I���ve never seen it as bad as this ��� and we were here in the early 1980s,��� she says. ���Usually, when something���s down, one of our other businesses is doing OK. This time, everything was down.��� When Jane says ���everything,��� she means it, because she���s still got her hand in several businesses, including Page & Associates, a construction ���rm that has its roots in a com- Jane Page, left, with daughter Mary Jane Scott, and son Bud Page. pany she and her former husband started in 1979. In addition to the construction company, she also has residential and commercial property management businesses. With so much on her plate, Jane is grateful her son Bud and daughter Mary Jane Scott have assumed many of her day-to-day duties, positioning her ���rm for the next generation. 4 p.m. on a Friday Throughout the years, Jane���s construction ���rm built houses and commercial buildings and has found a more recent niche in sewer and waEquipmentWorld.com | March 2013 51 EW0313_COY.indd 51 2/25/13 11:31 AM