Our team this week consisted of 13 men and women of the Daniel Burkholder “Old Order” group from Penn Yan area, NY. We had a good mixture of male and female and all but the driver were 30 yrs old or younger. They were skilled and energetic… got...
It’s hard to believe that our March is already half over! Time is going much too quickly! The team here worked hard this week and good progress was made. Ray, Darlene, Sieg, Elenore, Dave, Ruby, and Mim completed the painting and trim at the...
This week the weather was nicer than we’ve seen while serving here in Grand Isle all these weeks. We saw warmer temps and sunshine most of the week which made accomplishing tasks much easier. Eddie’s is looking more and more like a home each...
14 men and women of the Leonard Martin Group from Pennsylvania came this week – a good mixture of male and female… ages were from 18 to 73. They were skilled and energetic and got lots of good work done. We often started breakfast early and...
The March team has gotten well acquainted and is enjoying not only working together during the day, but also socializing informally as well as through planned events. As we would expect, it’s another great group of people with the Heiseys from PA...
Our first week in March, with several new volunteers, was very productive! It is so much fun to see the transformation of Eddie’s house day by day. Unfortunately, the weather is very unpredictable as we’ve still had mostly cool, windy,...
This was the 1st week of MDS Leadership for J Loren Yoder Project Director), Henry Shellenberg (Construction Supervisor) Stu Landis (Crew Leader) Millie & Walt Kurtz (Head and Assistance Cooks) Wanda Yoder (Dessert and Bread maker extraordinaire...
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,...
This past weekend we were happy to welcome our new long term team for the month of March. Steve and Gina joined us from PA as crew leader and long term volunteer, Stephanie, also from PA, joined us as Assistant Cook, and crew leader Hank arrived...