my second build

here's what my supervisor (and the director of project management) said about my second playground build as the lead project manager:

Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
Subject: (KaBOOM!) Build #716 - Congrats Hope and Tabitha!

Hope, with Tabitha as a stellar second, led a great build on a cold and rainy day (well, after lunch, the rain finally started to give way to the sun) in London, Ontario with the Boys and Girls Club and The Home Depot. In spite of the weather the volunteer turnout was good with 130+ people from 7 different The Home Depot stores and 50 people from the community. The day began with New PL, a local news media station doing live segments for their morning show “New Day”. During these segments, both Hope and Tabitha were interviewed; from The Home Depot, Kelly McNamara and the local project lead Terry Wallace (the store manager) were interviewed, and Don Donner the Director of the Boys and Girls Club was interviewed. The volunteers did a morning stretch led by Good Life Fitness. After the stretch, guest speakers at the kick-off included Pam Joliffe, the National Director of the Boys and Girls Club; Terry Wallace, a store manager, and Tom Mitchell, Director of the London Community Foundation. Throughout the day, volunteers did a lot of landscaping, including weeding, replanting trees, putting in a walkway, etc.; they also built 2 picnic tables and 3 planter benches; and of course, they built an awesome playground. The build captains were awesome! The volunteers enjoyed the barbecue lunch donated by Montana’s. The activities moved quickly although attaching the components to the structure and leveling and plumbing everything took longer than expected. Nevertheless everything was completed just in time for the 3pm board cutting . Steve Savoie from The Home Depot spoke at the board cutting as did Paul Keane, the president of the Boys and Girls Club. Other media at the build included a reporter from The Free Press and someone from a local Fanshawe College, a local college which broadcasts on a cable channel. (They did an extensive interview with Hope.) Congrats to both Hope and Tabitha for doing an awesome job on the build and also for making great connections with potential future partners (both Pam from the Boys and Girls Club and Tom from the London Community Foundation want to partner again with KaBOOM! and The Home Depot).