First, let me start by saying, we had a very beautiful day, weather wise, for setting up the playground equipment and the outdoor classroom! Thank you Lord!
We had about 16 people (including men and women) show up to help with the construction and serving. Karen, her husband, and I showed up first to get the coffee and donuts set out for the volunteers to have some breakfast before starting the project. Right after that we all broke up into teams and went to work. Karen and I, (mostly Karen) had been working with Lowes to donate some items to build some flower-beds. They were supposed to have everything ready yesterday, but something came up, so Karen and I drove over and picked up the items this morning and the men were able to construct the flower-beds before 2:00 o'clock. We send out a HUGE, THANK YOU, to LOWES and your wonderful team here in Lindale, Texas!!! GRACIAS!!! 100 x's. :)
Earlier in the week, I had sent out an email to all our ECC staff requesting food and drink donations for our volunteers and told everyone that I had posted a list of the items we wanted in our workroom. I am proud and thankful to report that we had a great response! I work with the best teachers and staff in the world! They allowed themselves to be a blessing to our volunteers and to me. There was a lot of food!! We even had enough left over to share with our teachers and staff on Monday. So a nice shout out to our ECC faculty and staff!! Hoorah!!!
When I first started this project, I contacted our maintenance department to find out where they had put the equipment that had come in over the summer and to see if they could bring it over to our building so that it would be there when we needed to install them. Our district had been responsible to purchase a few things in order to help construct the outdoor classroom, so I inquired from maintenance to see if the items had been purchased, they had been. They also went out and purchased some water sealant, liquid nail and caulking gun, and some brushes for us to be able to use as well. There were a few things that our maintenance crew was supposed to do, but forgot. One was to drop off the cement we were going to need to brace the balance bar and balance logs into place, but they forgot to bring the cement, so while we were at Lowes, we bought a few bags. Maintenance was also supposed to come and flag the area so we would know where any underground lines were located, we wrote and sent out the workorder three weeks in advance. They did not do that, thank God one of our volunteers only ran into one gas line, bus stopped just short of piercing the line. That was the only problem we had with underground lines or pipes. They were also supposed to bring these long nails to brace our climbing rock, we do not know what happened to them, but one of the gentlemen from our ESC said he had some and he would come and put them in on Monday. So, we had a few setbacks, but nothing that we could not overcome. So, we send a shout out to our Maintenance Crew for all their help, as well!! Hoorah!!
I could not have gotten all this organized and done without the fantastic help of Karen Rehders, Kristy Watson and especially my Site Supervisor, Dana Sustaire. I send you three out a Super Great Shout Out...HOORAH!!! I also want to give an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to all our community Volunteers and our ESC volunteers, John and Bob, you're the best...THANK YOU & GRACIAS 100 X'S! There is on more entity I want to send a GINORMOUS THANK YOU to and that is our ESC Head Start Program, for their donation of the playground equipment and the outdoor classroom...THANK YOU & GRACIAS 1000 X'S. I hope I did not leave anyone out.
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