CNSTRCTN, VOL. VII, # 4, WALLS UP, WALLS DOWN

Memories, like birds, fleeting--one must grasp and hold in heart's hands.

What a week!  Starting with what the workmen could do with
the students still in the building for three days, we find a few in
the library at the receiving end of the posts which were delivered
from the chapel roof.  First, of course, those posts (lay-speak)
had to be delivered to the chapel roof as you see on the right.  On the inside, once the passing-in process began, it looked like this:

While that was going on at east end of the building, and after
the students were gone, things began happening on the first floor.  First, lockers were removed yet                                                      
again, out of another section for a new window or door for the new Collaborative Learning Center.


Now for the really dramatic and, needless to say, loud drilling and hammering (think busting) began in the area of the old lavatory.
  
The first photo was taken just outside the outside door on the side of the building.  (That doorway is now under the roof of the soon to be extended CLC.)  The second photo is from the next day or so from the area of the old president's office (i.e. the old office, not the president--she's doing quite youthfully in her new office down the hall).
The final photo for the issue shows the chapel area as the walls were beginning to rise at the beginning of the week.  More was accomplished in the course of the week there. As that was commencing, the men from Michel's were continuing the trenching around the building, laying the wiring for the new LED lights that will surround us (farewell, starry nights).  That work continues as this is being typed, but out in the theatre parking lot area.  When blogger crossed the parking lot a few hours ago, (this is the day after Christmas) there were at least four big shovels (tractor type--lay speak), several trucks, and over a dozen men waiting for the ditching to commence in that area so the installation could begin.  With temperatures in the lower 20s--no fun.

And so the story goes on.  Soon, maybe today--this one never knows for sure--work will begin on the removal of the flooring in the cafeteria.  The floor will then receive a permanent painting.  Much more will happen in that area eventually.  Stay tuned.
May your ending of 2017 be a blessed one with enduring thoughts of a God-made-Man ever among us!