A busy summer

This is the list of what we accomplished at the church and parsonage this summer:

June: +Mowed/cleaned back of church (path side) and between playground Mary Sandoe House. +Trimmed treetops by Franz Hall entry. +Painted curb along the Grinnell Ave. entrance. +Put down one ton of gravel in front of church (by the main entrance) and along office side (beneath office windows). +Painted cross by corner sign and the St. Paul’s name on the building. +Replaced and painted church mailbox. +Placed artificial flowers in corner sign planters, Franz Hall planters, front entrance planters, and by the mailbox. +Began trimming large tree at the personage (arranged for pro to complete). +Put down ten yards of mulch at parsonage. +Put down three yards of gravel in the parsonage backyard (refreshed a path). +Put down eight yards of mulch in parking lot islands. +Trimmed all trees in parking lot. +Trimmed trees on the church lawn – up to ladder’s limit and took seven pickup loads of branches to Western Disposal. 

July: +Cleared overgrowth alongside the sidewalk leading to Mary Sandoe House, removing more than 2,100 lbs. of brush. +Edged along sidewalk. +Power-washed and repainted outside of the parsonage.

August: +Cleared parking lot of weeds +Painted parking lot stripes (sixty-eight spaces). +Painted six handicapped spaces (using stencil). +Painted two speed humps (one by office, one leading to Mary Sandoe House). +Cleared weedy patch in front of the parsonage, put down landscape fabric and five tons of rock.

September: +Removed rotten wood (thirty years old) from the drains (in between the bushes on the parking lot side of Franz Hall). Replaced wood with fresh, stained wood. +Removed fallen branches at the parsonage & church following snowfall. 

+Repainted signs located at both drive entrances. +Placed autumn flowers in church planters. +Repainted cross (Gillaspie/Grinnell). +Removed/took to the curb, large amount of branches from Mary Sandoe House (from the September snowfall). +Painted front porch at the parsonage.