Work Party #5, 2017

Saturday, 11 November 2017

The last scheduled work party of 2017 was held today, with good attendance, and a lot of work.  The tasks were set to clean up the club and to prepare for winter weather.  The weather was reasonable - cool and partly sunny, with no rain until early afternoon, when only the stump grinders were effected.  Lunch was sandwiches and chips from the Thriftway deli.

The following were the tasks performed:

• Picked up branches, and raked leaves, and then taking them to the pile behind the 50-yard ranges.
• Piled up leaves and brush behind the 50-yard range with trackhoe.
• Blow crud off the clubhouse roof, and out of the gutters.
• Clean out and sweep trap houses; restock with birds.
• Raked wads and disposed of them.
• Continued the burn of the old cottonwood stump.
• Picked up unbroken birds for the manual trap machine.
• Hauled off and donated old pallets.
• Cut up a large pile of kindling wood.
• Cut down large (5 - 6 feet in diameter) tree stump by the pump house, and started grinding away the remaining stump.

Several members brought rakes, leaf blowers, shovels, and other tools.  Joe Dula (Moana Nursery), Pete Kosky (Star Rentals), and Jason Paolo, brought tractors and a stump grinder for use during the work party.  The stump grinding continued on Sunday.

Members who participated in the work party include (new members names are marked by an asterisk):  Gabriel Baker (Troop 882), Steve* and Elaine Beals, Hunter Bedortha (Troop 882), Dan and Jack Bell (Troop 882), Jim Burdett, Don Burton, Mike Butler, Gary Carter*, James Dallas, Joe Dula, Theodore Evertz*, Tia Fraser, Lee Frazier, Bob Gent, Jason Heisler*, Josh Jensen, Dennis Kenagy, Pete Kosky, Ansen Lackner (Troop 882), Mike Miller, Rod Olsen, Jason Paolo*, L.C. Parschall, Bryan Peterson (Troop 882), Gage Peterson (Troop 882), Richard Phaneuf, Richard Ratter* and Cole, Bob Ray, Bruce Robbins, Jim Robertson, Mike Schiller*, Steve Shepherd, Paul Shuey, Jay Spillum, Bob Stewart*, Mark Taft, Todd Tolboe*, Ed Yeaman*.