I want to let all you creekers know about a project I have become involved in.It is to create and deliver to New Orleans 150 dining room tables for Katrina victims.
This project came about because of 2 people Jim Moose and his wife Sherry. Jim heard a story about a woman moving into a new Habitat house with all donated furniture that was in tears because she now owned a dining table after 3 years with nothing. This was the seed for Jim's idea.
The table Jim designed is based on a design that was used in the past to be broken down and loaded into a Conestoga wagon. It is held together
with pegs and breaks down into a 3" high pile (for shipping)
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This is the table.
The next thing Jim did was put a small article in the local paper and call a meeting. Well most of the town (it seems) turned out. That was about 3 weeks ago.
Donations of money and volunteers started rolling in. It has been amazing.
The next big break was Harry Reithmiller donating his shop to build table "kits" Harry owns a stair tread making company. Jim then ordered 6300 BF of red oak. An all volunteer crew has turned out 150 table "kits" that can be built by most anyone.
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This is gluing up table top "halves"
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Here are the finished "kits"
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