New fence for the horse arena at the Fairgrounds!
Posted June 15, 2011 at 12:46 pm by Ian Byington
Chelan Taylor (left) coordinated the project and fundraising and Andrea Mitchell of Lum Volvo and Tractor Service was part of the crew who installed the fence.
This is exciting – the old arena fence at the County Fairgrounds has been replaced – wahoo! Her’s more from Rev with the San Juan County Fair:
New Arena Fence at the Fairgrounds
The San Juan County Fairgrounds now has a beautiful, new arena fence, thanks to the efforts of a Friday Harbor High School Student.
As her project for the Community Project Experience class at Friday Harbor High School, Chelan Taylor coordinated the promotion and fundraising to replace and repair the arena fence at the fairgrounds. Her efforts were fruitful and in little over a year, enough money was donated to start the project.
Lum Volvo and Tractor Service from Orcas Island won the bid to install the new fence and recently finished the project. Eric Lum also provided the fir lumber for the fence rails, most of which were sustainably harvested from Lum’s property on Orcas. Brownes Home Center on San Juan Island helped by providing a discount on the treated posts and the Fair staff and Sheriff’s Release Work Program provided the labor to tear down the old fence.
Plaques will be attached to the rails with the names of all the folks who donated to this fine community-driven project.
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4 comments:
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Way to go, Chelan! You are an inspiration to several island youth who are also taking on big service projects. YOU DID IT!
What a hard working gal you are, all the way around. School, extracurricular and 4-H. A job well done!
Chelan! You saw a need and you went for it, what a great community we live in. Thank you 🙂
Really great project! Thank you, thank you! Sorry to have missed the call for donations, I would like to contribute if there is still a need. My horse Dandy went around that ring for 20+ years!
Darcie Nielsen
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