North Carolina Bridges – Jun. 22-26, 2026

We had a total of 16 volunteers during this week; 12 Weekly, 4 Leadership volunteers including the 2 cooks, and 1 Long Term, to work on the Whitmire Bridge, Holderman Walking Bridge, and Woody’s Drive Bridge in Hendersonville. Our volunteers were from IN, VA,NC, and NY.

Progress was as follows:

Monday: 5 volunteers worked on curbing, grading, and clean up at the Whitmire Bridge site. 4 volunteers set anchor bolts, positioned bridge on concrete, and began deck installation for the Holderman walking bridge.

Tuesday: 9 volunteers finished rip rap under bridge, started decking, landscaped large driveway stones, and started forming back walls, and 3 volunteers poured concrete, removed concrete forms, and began laying rip rap at the Woody’s Drive bridge site. 4 volunteers put the deck on the Holderman walking bridge. This bridge is now completed.

Wednesday: 6 volunteers finished grading, curbing, and cleaning up at the Whitmore site. This bridge is now complete. 5 volunteers poured back walls and finished decking at Woody’s Drive. Phil Helmuth and Cathy Earl joined the group for dinner Wednesday night and talked about the bridge projects with the volunteers.

Thursday: 4 volunteers worked on grading and 8 volunteers installed curbing at Woody’s Drive. This bridge is now completed.

Friday: Volunteers packed up the NC Bridges project site into trailers for the summer and took vehicles to General Auto Repair for servicing. Beds, mattresses, linens, and kitchen supplies will be stored in trailers in Bat Cave during the summer and then will be transported to Haywood County when the Fall project opens. Phil Helmuth will return the printer and hot spot to Lititz and Cindy Detwiler will mail the 3 cell phones to Lititz. Cindy will keep the laptop and files through the summer to continue paying invoices. When the Fall project opens the laptop and files will be transferred to the new onsite Office Manager.