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From left to right, Matt O’Connor, of Bedrock Excavating, Jerry Tracey, of mBank, Gary Dawley, of the Besser Foundation, Amanda Kish, of Bedrock Excavating, Jackie Krawczak, of the Alpena Area Chamber of Commerce, Dave Szydlowski, CEO of the North Eastern Michigan Rehabilitation and Opportunity Center Inc., Cynthia Muszynski, NEMROC board vice president, and Travis O’Connor, of Bedrock Excavating are seen at a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday for three state-of-the-art lumber-drying kilns for NEMROC. Completion of the $1.2 million project is anticipated to be sometime during mid-July. The new kilns are expected to dry 4.2 million board feet of lumber a year, an equivalent of more than 300 tractor-trailers a year leaving the facility.