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Easterday Construction Co., Inc. 2010 Culver Little League Team
Easterday Construction 2010 Little League Team
Boy Scout Headquarters Update
Work is proceeding. The decking is in place and we’re installing shingles today. The schedule is for completion the end of next week.
We have cut out a BSA emblem from plywood which CEF staff are painting for installation when the project is complete.
See previous Boy Scout Headquarters entry here.
Culver Academies Boy Scout Headquarters
Culver Educational Foundation Boy Scout Headquarters under construction at the Culver Academies Woodcraft Camp
This year is the 100 year anniversary of Scouting in America and as a tribute Culver Educational Foundation has contracted Easterday Construction Co., Inc. to build a new Boy Scout Headquarters in the Woodcraft Camp at Culver Academies. The structure is a scaled down version of a woodcraft camp cabin. It is a modified post and beam construction built nearly entirely out of cedar. The original cabins were designed to sit on piers so that they could be moved if necessary. There are historical pictures of the original cabin being moved from one location to another on campus.
Culver Academies Woodcraft Camp Craft Pavilion under construction in 2008
Easterday Construction has been responsible for the construction of many projects at Culver Academies over the years and family legend has it that our founder, my great grandfather, Russell L. Easterday, began his construction career with James I. Barnes Construction on a project for the Culver Academies back in the 1920’s.
CEF Woodcraft Camp Counselor's Cabin near completion of construction in 2008
In recent years at the Culver Academies Woodcraft Camp we built the new Boys’ Showers, renovated both the old girls’ showers and the old boys’ showers, built the new Craft Pavilion and a new Counselor’s Cabin. All of these have had coordination issues due to accelerated time schedules, environmental preservation regarding site requirements, aesthetics necessary to fit the existing facilities and sensitivity to the safety, security and needs of the young children the camp serves.
On this project as well as the Counselor’s Cabin and Craft Pavilion pictured, we were assisted by Scearce Rudisel Architects with design issues and obtaining the State Plan Releases. Mary Ellen Rudisel Jordan and her staff have been helpful and responsive on these projects and the fact that she has a former Woodcraft Camper a Chipmunk from the last graduating class of Woodcraft Chipmunks on her staff hasn’t hurt!
Rebuilding Together Thank You
We received a nice letter from Rebuilding Together today thanking us for our assistance to the Culver Lions Club. One of the hardest workers in the Culver Lions Club is Leroy Bean and he is a former ECC employee. Currently Will Pearson in our office is a member of the Lions and has helped them with recommendations and estimates for a home here in Culver. We have loaned tools for the project and put them in touch with reputable sub-contractors for some of the work. Over the years we have also served as a storage facility for excess materials that the Lions have accumulated for use on projects such as these. We’re happy to be able to help them with this effort. The work they are doing is admirable. To steal the Culver Chamber of Commerce’s tag line, the Lions and the work they do in Culver are things that makes Culver “A Nice Place to Be”.
CCMS Career Day 2010
April 23rd was Career Day at Culver Community Middle School. As discussed here earlier, I volunteered to speak as a Landscape Architect since April is National Landscape Architecture Month. The schedule called for me to speak to five different groups of kids in 20 minute time slots.
Speaking for 20 minutes wasn’t really a big deal, though it was hard to decide what level of detail would be interesting to 7th graders. Of course the nightmare scenarios were 1) a sea of blank staring faces or; 2) a horrible reinactment of “Are You Smarter Than a 7th Grader” with me as the brunt of the joke. As it turned out, the worst part was a planning mistake on my part. I was right that 20 minutes of material wasn’t a big deal, but by the time I was doing the third presentation I began to forget whether I was repeating myself since I remembered saying it before to the previous group. By the end, I also realized that I wasn’t used to talking that much! My throat was actually a little dry and scratchy.
