This week’s work was driveway and road repair for several families. The crews are experienced road builders and they worked hard completing projects. Work involved digging out and installing new culverts, grading roads and cleaning up debris...
This week’s long-term volunteers continued from last week: PD Fred Hershey (AL), CS David King (VA), Crew Leaders Ken and Suetta Hollinger (MI), Jon Stuckey (OH), and Joel Short (OH). Also continuing were our head cook, Judy Schmidt (Manitoba...
As we are entering the last week of the project for the fall, we are finishing up one home and making steady progress on the other two. We were short one couple this week but the rest of the crew worked very hard and a lot was accomplished. At the...
This week in Selma, we were joined by the Marion Schmucker group of 9 volunteers from Nappanee, IN., ranging in age from 15 to 75. This group included three 15-year-olds… one accompanied by his grandfather and another by his father. The temperature...
This month we transitioned to a new leadership team: Peter (Construction Supervisor) and Margaret (Head Cook) Goertzen, Erv (Crew Leader) and Esther (Assistant Cook) Wilms, Daryl Horst (Crew Leader), Andrew Zimmerman (Long-term Volunteer), Ed Martin...
This week in Selma, we were joined by a youth group of 7 teenagers and 3 adult leaders, from southern Ontario, in the Straffordville area. The temperatures in Selma were fall-like with 30s at night and 60s-70s daytime highs… and some rain mid-week...
This week’s crew from Pennsylvania were also young and energetic, completing over 20 jobs in spite of taking Thanksgiving Day off to do sightseeing, hiking and biking. Again, most of the work was felling or cutting up trees, and cleaning creeks...
Long-term volunteers this week continued from last week: project director Fred Hershey (AL), construction supervisor David King (VA), crew leaders Ken Hollinger (MI) and Jon Stuckey (OH), joined beginning this week by Joel Short (OH). Also...