FLOOD 2008 Recovery
  June-July 09
                                                    June 3- Mixing cement to install the railing near the Chihak Hall restrooms
                                               
                                                The railing is installed.
                                                June 8-12      WEEK 52 -one year since the flood
                                               
                                                Chihak Hall carpet  installation .
                                      June 10-12-This group from Knox Presbyterian Church in Naperville, Illinois spent three days here helping with our recovery.
                                                                                                                                      Thank you so much!!!
                                    A group of 21 from First Reformed Church in Waupun, Wisconsin was in CR for the week. These 7 spent a few hours
                                    helping in the gym building.   THANK YOU!
                                                June 17    The gym stage plywood floor nears completion.
                                                The gym kitchen plumbing and electrical work needs to be completed before the new floor
                                                and appliances can  be installed.



                                    This group from Princeton Presbyterian Church in Princeton, West Virginia spent 4 days in Cedar Rapids with flood recovery efforts.
                                    We were fortunate to have them  June 18 . One big job they did was clearing out all the "jungle growth" on the north side of the church.
THANKS!!!



                                                This group from Parkview Community Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois spent 4 days here helping in the gym building and
                                                rebuilding the retaining wall on the north side of the church.




The team's "foremen", Mel and Phil from St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Marion take a much-deserved break.














21 youth and 7 adults from Ypsilanti Free Methodist Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan
spent the week of  June 22-26 in Cedar Rapids.  The group pictured below spent a day cleaning up
the fenceline in the parking lot across from the gym, building.
                                                A crew from Sand Springs United Methodist Church in Sand Springs, Oklahoma came to Cedar Rapids June 27-July 3; this
                                                group worked in the gym building for 2 days
                                    July 6-10   This group from St Francis of Assisi, Des Moines accomplished a wide variety of tasks.
                                    Monday morning the new chairs for Chihak Hall arrived. The group unloaded them and then a small crew took on the time
                                    consuming chore of unwrapping all the paper from all 160 chairs.



























                                                 July 13-17-

                                                A total of 28 volunteers from Centerburg United Methodist, Green Valley United Methodist
                                                and Marengo United Methodist from Centerburg, Ohio were in Cedar Rapids. This crew
                                                pictured below helped get the VISTA offices ready and did a variety of yard work.
                                         

                                                 Happy 78th birthday, Wally!





                                                A crew of 50+ came to us from Virginia. 18-20 of them worked here Mon-Thurs, continuing with many of the jobs in the gym building.
                                                
















                                                JULY 9 -Bob and Al have have spent many  hours prepping the gym kitchen for new plumbing.
                                                    JULY 16
                                                    JULY 24
                                                    JULY 23- Terry Pesek installed the stone where a window had once been on the south wall of the church.
                                                                      This was yet an another example of donated services. THANK YOU, Terry.


The group below is from Blue Springs First United Methodist Church in Blue Springs, Missouri.
They spent July 23 and the morning of July 24 doing both inside and outside jobs.