Still Green

Hello everyone sorry I am late posting, as you may know from earlier post I am involved with getting the Community for Creative Non-Violence’s Arts and Education building restored. Since the last post I have gotten a designer to help with the restoration. Through her contacts I have gotten a structural engineer to look at the building, surprisingly he said that the building is structurally sound; the roof beams are in excellent condition for the age of the building. This was good information seeing that we wish to install a green roof. I have gotten free estimates from building contractors and some have offered to do work at no cost to us, great! As stated in earlier post through lengthy weekly meetings the individual partners in this venture are forming a partnership. This kind of partnerships will help us secure fund through the President of the United States stimulus funding soon to be revealed.

On Earth Day the individuals from the DC project organization and I went through the building and removed hundreds of old monitors, printers, and system units. These units were carried to the Environment Protect Agencies collect drive for Earth Day, upon getting there it seemed that no one else was going to show up, so a few of their volunteers offer to come back to our site and load more unit on the truck. In closing, just the other day a music writer stopped by to offer his services to help teach music writing to the residents of the shelter. Well, these days I do not have much free time, so until next post good luck to all other Vista’s keep up the good work.