Work Party #1, 2013

Sunday, 24 March 2013

The first work party of 2013 on Saturday, 3/23/13, got the club off to a successful start on maintenance for the year.  The weather also helped, although it lowered the amusement factor in observing the members laying out the new ground cloth for the trap ranges in driving rain.  As usual, coffee, doughnuts, lunch, and beverages were available to participants.

The members accomplished quite a bit during the work party, although more remains to be done for those new members wanting to get their time in.  The following are the tasks that were done:

• Laid out four more rolls of ground cloth on the trap range. Stapled down the cloth, and added concrete weights to prevent the wind from moving the cloth. The concrete curbs were donated by CRGC member Spencer Waite (Waite Concrete Products).
• Raked wads around trap houses.
• Cleaned, re stocked and serviced trap machines.
• Fertilized lawns at park area, clubhouse, and caretaker home.
• General cleanup around clubhouse and ranges.
• Some gravel work in parking areas, the road to the ranges, the 50 yard ranges, and the path to the 100 yard butts.
• Started on the repair, refit and refill of rifle range baffles. Metal was added to the bottom of all baffles to stop the loss of gravel, and one row of baffles had the pea gravel replaced. There are four more rows to go.

Members who participated in the work party include (new members names are marked by an asterisk): David Basham, Hugh Boyle, Jim Casey, Richard Chapin, Larry D. Crownover*, Joe Dula, John P. Eide*, Mark Fleming, Lee Frazier, Kenney Frentress*, Charles F. Fuller, Robert Hohensee, Doug Howard, Joshua Jensen*, Dennis Kenagy, Dell King, Gordon Matthews* Adam Maurer*, John McNally, L.C. Parshall, Bob Ray, Jim Robertson, Mark Simmons, Dale Smelser, Bob Sutton, Homes Tupper, and Steve Turner.