The inaugural California MDS RV project began with the arrival of Tom Collins, project director, and Pat and Judy Powell on Saturday. Roger and Ina Heinrichs and Chris and Carol Stone arrived on Sunday, along with a pickup and tool trailer which had...
This has been a busy week with people coming and going! Our weekly volunteers, Wendy, from Lodi, CA, arrived late Sunday night and Gordon, from Reedley, CA, arrived on Monday night. Michele WhiteEagle, California MDS Board Chair also arrived on...
The new long-term volunteers arrived on September 29 and October 2. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of that week were spent in orientation and getting familiar with the area and the various job sites. We were sad to see Don and Rachel (previous PD...
Our Project Director and Office Manager from Kansas were the only volunteers at Paradise this week but that didn’t keep us from getting lots accomplished. A load of shingles was picked up from the Hope Center in Oroville for the Rubiolo and Harrell...
This week our long-term volunteers, from PA, and OH as well as our short-term volunteer from CA, completed their three weeks with us here in Paradise. The team finished framing and sheeting the porch at Harrell’s; installed fascia board and roofing...
Since we are not bringing in new weekly volunteers this month, it was great to have the one weekly volunteer from California stay to work with our two long term crew leaders. Things were rearranged in the Unit #1 garage to make space for the stove,...
Maynard Goins and Steve Wiest each spent several days with the long-term volunteers who arrived the middle of last week. They did an excellent job orienting us to the Paradise community and relaying information regarding the history and current...
