It's so exciting to see the progress we've made and know how much our campers have learned in just two short weeks! What an amazing crew of kids, and truly wonderful volunteers we've had.
On rainy Wednesday, we had visitors from Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's office. Jared Borg, deputy director of regional representatives, and the local representative. The treasurer has written about the importance of early trade career exploration, and his representatives really appreciated our program.
Dave Sommer and Gary Ashmore from HGC stuck with us, and while many of the campers went inside to play Jenga, a small but mighty crew hung pegboard on the interior walls.
Thursday was a much nicer day, and Dave and Gary were back to help Kevin Murray and Gene Young from CBC lead the kids through measuring, cutting, and installing the rakeboards and soffits. We even got a start on the siding in the back. We appreciated Forge Lumber going the extra mile to bring a special delivery in the afternoon - thanks, Tom Tieke at Forge!
Progress continued on the roof, too, as Jim Durham helped the kids get another bundle of shingles up. He'll be back next week after his daughter's wedding this weekend. Congratulations and thanks, Jim!
It was so cool for our campers to learn tuckpointing from Ron Asbury , a foreman from Hummel Industries. Ron had the kids mixing mortar, jackhammering out old broken bricks, replacing them with new, and mortaring the new bricks as well as areas where mortar was missing. This was a great learning experience for our campers, and also made the old abandoned brick building look a LOT better! Thank you so much to Ron and to Scott Whittle of Hummel who made this possible.
We wrapped up the day with birthday cupcakes - baked by Miss Anne - for Logan Thomas, who turned 14 years old. This is Logan's second summer at camp - he's our caulk expert, and a great member of our crew!
On rainy Wednesday, we had visitors from Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's office. Jared Borg, deputy director of regional representatives, and the local representative. The treasurer has written about the importance of early trade career exploration, and his representatives really appreciated our program.
Dave Sommer and Gary Ashmore from HGC stuck with us, and while many of the campers went inside to play Jenga, a small but mighty crew hung pegboard on the interior walls.
Thursday was a much nicer day, and Dave and Gary were back to help Kevin Murray and Gene Young from CBC lead the kids through measuring, cutting, and installing the rakeboards and soffits. We even got a start on the siding in the back. We appreciated Forge Lumber going the extra mile to bring a special delivery in the afternoon - thanks, Tom Tieke at Forge!
Progress continued on the roof, too, as Jim Durham helped the kids get another bundle of shingles up. He'll be back next week after his daughter's wedding this weekend. Congratulations and thanks, Jim!
It was so cool for our campers to learn tuckpointing from Ron Asbury , a foreman from Hummel Industries. Ron had the kids mixing mortar, jackhammering out old broken bricks, replacing them with new, and mortaring the new bricks as well as areas where mortar was missing. This was a great learning experience for our campers, and also made the old abandoned brick building look a LOT better! Thank you so much to Ron and to Scott Whittle of Hummel who made this possible.
We wrapped up the day with birthday cupcakes - baked by Miss Anne - for Logan Thomas, who turned 14 years old. This is Logan's second summer at camp - he's our caulk expert, and a great member of our crew!