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Our
Staff
Susan Jock is working
on her 13th season at New Vistas, installing landscapes. For
the past 12 years Susan has been supervising the
crew and as of last fall, she has begun assisting with estimating
installations and helping prepare landscaping designs for presentation.
Susan is also a certified applicator for treatments on shrubs and
trees. When she is not at work, Susan raises cattle on a small
farm at the edge of Goshen and breeds championship rabbits for
show, as well as working with the 4-H rabbit club. Her landscape
related experience prior to New Vistas includes caring for greenhouse
plants, propagating shrubs and trees, and owning a floral shop
where she created countless arrangements. Susan’s knowledge
of plants, artistic eye, and attention to detail are a great asset
for New Vistas. When Susan and her crew finish a job, the work
is really well done.
Keith Conder originally
worked at New Vistas for 7 years in the 1990’s, taking the crew foreman position for 6 of those years.
After 8 years in another career, this is Keith’s 3rd year
working with installations at New Vistas again. Keith has also
been involved with caring for the plants and grounds around the
New Vistas shop in between installation jobs. In his spare time
Keith plays the guitar and even makes guitars. He and his wife
are kept busy working and raising two young children. Keith came
to New Vistas with landscaping experience at Black Squirrel Golf
Course, working on the crew that built the course, prior to his
serving the the Marines both in our country and abroad. Keith contributes
his skills to the installation projects with a spirit of energy
and enthusiasm that helps bring the jobs to completion in good
time.
Carol Spicher
Waggy came to New Vistas in the spring of 2008 to
work part time on the excel spread sheets to keep track of inventory
and work on estimating jobs. She also assisted in measuring jobs,
entering measurements into the CAD computer, and creating a planting
key after the design is complete as well as helping to stake out
on jobs. Carol serves as an interim pastor and visiting preacher
when needed for the Church of the Brethren and travels with a Shalom
Team to help congregations with conflict resolution. She and her
husband have three grown children. In her spare time, Carol has
tended many vegetable and perennial gardens in whatever place she
has called home, sewn just about any type of project you can imagine,
and served in mission settings from the US to the Dominican Republic
and Costa Rica in recent years in disaster relief childcare, preventative
health care, and leadership of volunteer work camps.
Judy De
Pue is the owner
of New Vistas Landscaping and has been designing landscapes around
Elkhart County and the surrounding
area for 28 years. She meets with clients and tries to listen to
their wants and needs while planning a landscape that will survive
well in the future. Designing landscapes and working in her own
yard are her hobbies along with reading and volunteering at Creekside
Church of the Brethren, especially in the public Prayer Garden
on site. Judy and her husband try to be encouraging to their adult
daughters as they pursue mission work and a nursing degree and
are looking forward to the birth of their first grandchild. Before
Judy started New Vistas Landscaping, she used her design training
to teach art in the Goshen Community Schools, the parks department
and part time at Goshen College. Her listening ear, creativity,
and God’s guidance, have helped New Vistas Landscaping persevere
and become what it is today.
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