More Pictures

Ring beam finished

First truss in place

What's Happening

Design Charettes

We held three meetings to involve the community in contributing their ideas of what images and design elements could be represented in the Stewardship Center. These meetings produced a lot of great ideas! The last Design Charette is tonight August 28th 7pm at the Nature Center.


Framing!

We started framing on Saturday, August 25th with the help of several volunteer carpenters. On Saturday we got prepping done, posts up and put up part of the ring beam. Sunday most of the crew returned and finished putting up the ring bing and the trusses.

This week, Susan Clellen, working with her dad Jack, is putting in the purlins, the support for the rafters. Next will be the plywood sheeting for the roof, and at that point we will need an inspection by the City of Shaker for framing. After that the magnificent oak trunk that was donated by Morningstar Tree Service will be raised into place as the center post for the gathering area. Then, the radial end of the roof will be framed.

Once the entire roof is up, we can begin putting up the strawbale wall. We estimate the start date for the strawbale wall to be September 15th.

Please contact Jan Zorman at 216-321-5935 x229 for volunteer opportunities. Also, we welcome any skilled carpenters that would like to volunteer with framing!

Start on Sunday (Pictured: Susan Clellan, Jim Meyer and Kathe Meyer)

Setting Posts (Pictured: Kathe Meyer, Jeff Silcox, John Payne, Ryan McCafferty, Hap Ground and Jim Meyer)

Starting on Ring Beam (The heat was getting to Jeff at this point!)

Susan and Hap Calculating The Radius