For our week of service we helped out an arena that is host to the Spirit of Hope Therapy Center, located in Selah Washington, in the Wenas area. The Spirit of Hope program provides social skills, boundaries, and assertiveness training for people of all ages. It also provides non-verbal communication training for medical providers, as well as leadership/communication/ team building sessions. The program aims to provide "healing through horses".
A lot of work needed to be done around the place, so we came up with a list of priorities and started in on it. First we brushcut a bunch of weeds surrounding the clubhouse and down the back driveway. We also took a drive further up the Wenas where we had arranged to cut some downed trees for firewood for the clubhouse. Next on the list was to burn all the brush piles and keep tidying up out in the arena. Once most of the work was done on the outside, we then got to tear up the kitchen floor in the clubhouse. As the floor was being worked on, a few of us went into the arena to put in a few hitching posts that were needed. Once the floor was all torn out, we worked on putting a better floor in. At the end of the week we were finished with putting the first part of the flooring in. When a good final flooring is found, we aim to go back to the clubhouse to put it in.
The following photos are of us working on the floor :
First we had to move everything off the old floor.
Tearing out the floor came next.
We found some interesting electrical setups.
Once all the old stuff was off, we got to start putting new stuff down.
One more piece to glue down and screw in !
Now to put everything back in the room.
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