Late Sunday afternoon, our new crew of capable weekly volunteers arrived. Three of the four men are from North Carolina and one from Colorado. The men applied their skills to various jobs. They removed the chimney, replaced screws and completed the...
Crew leader, Lauren King, returned home to Ohio last Saturday. Rob Beiswenger from Pennsylvania arrived later that day as her replacement. The weekly volunteers this week are all men from the Ephrata, Pennsylvania area. The four friends traveled...
The February project director, office manager and cooks returned home at the end of last week and a new crew of long-term volunteers arrived to oversee the work in Hurley, VA for the month of March. The seven of us, Verne, Joyce, Josie, Lauren, Dan,...
Our eager crew of volunteers this week consisted of 6 young ladies and a husband and wife from Wisconsin, in addition to our long-termers. They got right to work on Monday morning, finishing up the flooring at Sherry Dotson’s house and signing...
We have an all-new staff of long-term volunteers and are so grateful for the overlap we had with the previous long-term staff. Kerry and Jo have good records to follow up on and the cooks left great supplies for the new cooks. We continue to work...
It was a fine week weather-wise and in spite of some mountain climbing there was still lots of work done. We were joined by a group of ten men and women from Manitoba. Finally, the Project Director and I were not the minority, and though they were...
Another week has come and gone, the weather improved, the snow melted, and work is moving forward. It was great to meet some new folks, and some we had worked with on other sites. Eight of them came from Wisconsin, one from Baltimore, and one from...
The second week here at Hurley has come and gone but it was a tough one weather wise. It was snowy and cold. We must have had about 8 inches over the week, and the temperatures were unusually low. It was a challenge to keep things from freezing in...
