2014 Maintenance Building Project

In the short (1 year) time I’ve been here, it has quickly become very clear to me that the next building we need is a Maintenance Building. This would have a big effect on the whole camp. Imagine emptying the two blue cabins and turning one into an Activity Cabin and one into a Craft Cabin! Imagine emptying the cabin on top of the hill and turning it into a Nature Cabin complete with a telescope, bird & plant identification guides, microscope, binoculars, and many more nature-discovery items! Imagine clearing everything out of the Main Building’s furnace room and only putting housekeeping supplies back in (oh, wouldn’t that be wonderful!?!). We would need a place for all the stuff to go. I had told a handful of camp supporters about this idea, and one Friday in the middle of the summer, one of them called me up and said, “I’ve got some news for you!” A local business was going to tear down a 40’x42’ Metal building and said that we could have it if we would come and tear it all down. So, a number of people helped out the next week to take it down and move it to camp!

We have a maintenance building!

Now, there’s still a whole lot of work to be done to get this building put back up. Would you consider being a part of this exciting project that is going to have an impact on the camp for years to come? Donate to help us defray these costs. Or, get together a work crew, contact us, and coordinate a time you can come out and complete one of these steps!

Steps/Challenges/Needs (rough cost estimates) *=Work Crews

• Property Line Survey ($750)
• Determine location
• Brush & tree clearing*
• Determine water management solution
• Ground work/grading
• Trench ($300)
• Install 220A Electric Line ($400)
• Concrete + Footings ($10,000)
• Put up building*
• Install Overhead Door(s)*
• Put up interior walls + loft*
• Build/Install Interior Shelves & Fixtures ($200)
• Fence in maintenance yard
• Move tools & building resources from storage cabins*
• Clean out Furnace Rooms of everything but housekeeping and put all tools, chemicals, and paint in maintenance building*
• Put up shelves in storage cabins*
• Move all activities into activity cabin*
• Move all crafts into craft cabin*
• Move all nature items into nature cabin*