Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A short meeting was held last evening concerning the upcoming workday scheduled for this weekend.
On the dockette is a plan to do measurements and from there decide on our best options as far as fitting the rink to the available space given us. We will have to determine if boards need to be eliminated, and if so how many boards would be omitted from the original batch to allow us to install the rink in total within the prescribed area.
Scribing the surface or marking an outlined area on the exisiting surface will also be part of the work to be done.
Along with the afore mentioned details we are wanting to stand the boards up, and stack them on pallets for their storage through the upcoming months. We will be stacking, and strapping them to the pallets in numerical order ( some ten or so pallets will be needed ) so that when the time comes to do the final rink setup they will have been previously inventoried, and readied for installlation.
Project manager Mike Keihl has done a great job putting together a master plan of sorts to work from. As this project unfolds Mike will present stages of the plan and its scenerio as he sees it concerning scheduling further "work days".
Bud Agnew over the next couple of months will be looking into our league securing the financial backing needed in order for us to purchase the product and its installation, "Flex Court"
Per the advice and direction from those that will be digging and pouring the footing for the rink these tasks will be done as soon as it can be determined that there no longer remains the threat to the ground of frost. Frost and moisture if the footing were to be poured at this time, could or would cause heaving of the concrete.
We will be moving as I stated earlier in stages best determined by Mike over these next few months and leading into the spring. Our desire is to make sure that as this project moves forward, that every detail is disscussed and that the final outcome is that we can look back on the rink project upon its completion and say......" We did it right ".
There will be further projects or needed work to be done over the next couple of months. For example we have buckets full of nuts, bolts, washers and other fasterns that need to be inventoried and cleaned up just to mentioned one needed task.
Please to all of you that are a part of our league, I would ask that even now as this season comes to its close that you remain actively involved over the "downtime" months. We will be needing so many to help with this project and our best source of helping hands comes from those of you that have sons and daugthers that play hockey here in Warren County. Check with frequency, this web site, for updates on scheduled work days.
As the Championship games are being played this evening, there will be a sign up sheet located at the consession stand, that you can put your name, and phone number to, to allow for us to later reference and then call on you when work is needed to be done.
This Sunday will be the first workday. Mike has set time to start at HIGH NOON. Rej has stated that there is plenty of hot dogs, and chili for our consumption while the work goes on. So, come on out, get a little dirty, and have some good food and fun......and be in on this project from its beginings. SEE YOU ALL THERE.
In representation of "The Board",
Jim Harmon
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