Today in the maintenance shed, the ninth and hopefully final cement bench was cast. The three-man muscle team of Leonard Helbig, Tony Sencich, and Mike Ross fabricated forms, hand-mixed and shoveled 2,880 pounds of cement, and later broke open the molds. The 160 pound bench ends were then smoothed with a stone, layered with a coat of filler, and again smoothed.
While this is going on, the 54 wooden bench slats are being cut, planed, sanded, and stained. Today another female volunteer, Etel Helbig, showed up to help me stain the mountain of bench slats. 
Our wonderful maintenance supervisor, Ed Scobee, is on-hand and contributing to all the work, staying late after we leave and beginning work early before the volunteers arrive to keep the work area organized, and materials handy. While tamping wet concrete, or cutting 2 by 4s, he continues to answer crisis calls on his walkie-talkie, cell phone, and with his crew who are in and out all day long.
Our wonderful maintenance supervisor, Ed Scobee, is on-hand and contributing to all the work, staying late after we leave and beginning work early before the volunteers arrive to keep the work area organized, and materials handy. While tamping wet concrete, or cutting 2 by 4s, he continues to answer crisis calls on his walkie-talkie, cell phone, and with his crew who are in and out all day long.
At his home, Wes Rice has taken the responsibility for the nine aged brass plaques that were removed from discarded benches and he is restoring them to their original brilliance. When all of these pieces come together at Sunset Point and Pelican Point, I hope the residents show their appreciation to these wonderful volunteers.Soon we are planning a day for the residents to refinish the benches around the park.It has yet to be approved by the board. We'll let you know the date as soon as it happens. Stay tuned.
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