In all of California and Hawaii this was Mormon Helping Hands day. This is an event designed to get members of the Church, and all others who can join us, into the community for service work. The opportunities vary and in our stake we generally have more than one site where we do projects.
Our ward was assigned to work with the Loma Rica Ward at the Forbestown Museum. As you can see from the photos below, it's a nice little "Old West" mining town type place with all of the standards shops.
The outside attractions include parts and pieces of hydraulic mining operations. Some of the men also worked on a new exhibit that will be a mine entrance. It was pretty cool.
(One thing that was not lacking was photographers. Everyone was taking pictures, me included.)
There was an old school house that needed to be painted, but most of what we did was rake up pine needles, and that took nearly all morning. My job was to unload the small trailers of needles and cuttings and manage the dump pile. Some of my crew is shown below. The picture below doesn't really do it justice. It was a HUGE pile. Even after we tromped it down several times it will fill a 10 ton truck easily. (They haul it off, not burn it.)
Just for kicks, I had one our younger workers sit in front of the make-shift teepee. I think he had fun.
The entire work crew.
The people who run the museum provided a sumptuous meal when we
were finished. They aid they're unofficial motto was: "we always have food!"
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