Working Hard to Get My Fill...

With more and more people arriving at the SummitCorps Service Project at the West Virginia National Guard Armory cooperation has become a key player in all the things that the staff does.  This is especially true with the construction of the Shows stages.  After the holes had been dug with the bobcat yesterday and the poles ad been built they had to be put into the ground with percision that only a elite team of OA volunteers can have.

Bringing up the poles was not as easy as it looks but these guys sure do make it look easy

A good portion of time had to be spent making sure that the poles were as even as possible otherwise the final product would not look right when the shows were put on.

After all the poles were put into the ground and placed properly electrical wiring had to be set to allow the lights to get power.  The volunteers who did this wiring did a phenomenal  job of it because once it was all hooked up it worked on the first try!

While all this construction was going on at the shows stage there was much more going around camp.  This included the construction of the staff tent site and the bathrooms/showers for everyone.

With so much going on around camp some parts of the staff had to get together to make sure everyone is on the right page.  Here is the logistics team meeting where everyone went around and checked off that everything is good and ready for participants.

Back at the stage the wires to run electricity had to be buried so that no one trips on them during the show, so they called in the specialists, the I-Corps of course after their days off.

With the frame built, the electricity hooked up, and the cables buried it is starting to look like a stage fit for an OA show, maybe not as good  as mysterium compass but it may come close.

After the I-Corps had finished burying the cables, they found that a large pile of wood needed to be moved down to the arena.  They cheerfully loaded their burden upon their brothers and burdened it until another took it from them.

As the day came to a close the I-Corps looked at the newly construsted stage along with the shows crew to find out that for their hard work in the past few weeks and for the hard work ahead they were being given pizza at night as a thank you.

And so ends another beautiful day at the SummitCorps Service project at the National Guard Armory in West Virginia.  The Trail awaits!