Final week in Chatham, Illinois

As our final week begins, we have been asked to update the brick memorial patio.

These are the bricks to be added, so

Wayne and Bill set out to install them.

Meanwhile, Ron and Bill begin stallation of a replacement storm door in employee housing

and then they set out to repair the front office door.

We were asked to continue filling cleaning buckets and we got two ready and then realized that we did not have the needed supplies ready.

This is the view of the 340 buckets that we filled last week.

Jodi has rolled so many garbage bags they call her the bag lady so she decides to dress the part.

Bill has been fixing all sorts of plumbing around the complex.

The center got the OK to ship Personal Dignity Kits (towels, shampoo, toothpaste, etc.) to Puerto Rico so we are called upon to sort, count and pack the kits.  Joyce and Dave on left just joined us for a couple of days and the aid Gary and Kathy in upacking.

Prepackaged items like these nailclippers have to be "unpackaged" so Stel is cutting the packages with Avis supervising.

Avis joins the others in unpacking.

All incoming material is sorted and counted for repacking.

Jim and Brenda are in the back of the warehouse unpacking and sorting incoming donated materials for cleaning buckets.

Gary is sanding a donated flagpole for the Center

and Ron and Bill are painting it.

Outside, Ron, Wayne and Bill have dug a hole for the base of the flagpole and installed rebar

and then the cement is added

and finished off.  This flagpole may be destroyed by a tornado but the base is never going anywhere.

and with our final week complete, it is time to head on down the road.  See you in Arkansas.