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Painting Job, June 28, 2003
Because of vacations, other obligations, etc. we had a low turn out today -- However, we did have a "Lowe turn out" -- out of 7 persons, 3 of them were descendents of Thaddeus Lowe -- Joe Hall, Stephanie Bethel, and Lisa Bethal. John Harrigan, as usual, lead the way - and we painted the Dawn Mine Station, the Pavilion, and the Picnic structure.
Lisa and Stephanie Bethel, descendents of Thaddeus
Lowe, came all the way |
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More prep work prior to spray painting. |
3 descendents of Professor Lowe working together
prepping the Pavilion for John to paint. |
John Harrigan painting the underside of the Pavilion |
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Painting Dawn Mine Station |
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The Bethels with Ron Jasinski |
Taking a breather at the Dawn Mine Station |
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Work Party, April 12
(road to Alpine Tavern Camp)
Brian, Kevin and Bruce C. were up the hill on the upper
road trying to pull on the tree to lift it off the telephone lines. I scrambled up the tree roots and cut the last remaining snag
most of the way through. The guys up the hill could not budge it so I gave it a good pull with the old truck and brought it down. We dragged all
the pieces up the hill to the tennis courts and nailed them all down where the
bikers were going down. (We've been having trouble with mountain bikes
destroying the terrain) With a fence post driven in the middle of their
runs, I think we will have slowed them down. Sam has some big pine trees
on a job he is clearing and he will cut them into trailer length pieces for me
to take up and deposit around the edge of the tennis court area.- John Harrigan
December, 2002
The removal of the munitions bin from the closed Oak Grove Park Ranger Station.
The storage shed for all our tools was being moved to the new Ranger location in Little Tujunga - too far distant to make any sense for us. So, with permission, we moved this unused bin that had sat there forever up to Cape of Good Hope with the help of a volunteer with a huge trash truck. This metal bin lined inside with wood weighs, we estimate, over 5000 pounds...a little heavy to put in John's pick-up.
Half the job is done by the Can Do Boys
- now to move this baby up the mountain to Cape of Good
Hope. Below - we have arrived up the mountain to the CAPE |
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Here we are at Cape of Good Hope - about 6 - 7 miles from Oak Grove. Truck has backed up to spot where we want to drop the BIN. Here we can be seen talking about how it will be done. |
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Historian, Robert Wilde,
ready to supervise the dropping of the
BIN in location where he stands. OH NO - it tipped over on its back - what you see above - right is the top of the BIN. |
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Sam hooks up his truck cable to appropriate spot on
BIN and pulls it upright, and then |
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Sanded and primered -- next we'll paint it an earth tone, and be done. |