A small group of very hard-working people led by Rune Burnet cleaned the libary after ICS.
His team included Susan Souby, Rene Sheilds, Gary Napper, Orion Knox, and Don Cooper. Others, including myself, chipped in. Kim Flieshman ? Dave Lester. The labor involved disassembling a giant wall made out of 2x4's and about 40 heavy sheets of 4x8 OSB board. All of this had to be hand-carried out to Burnet's trailer, because the libary did not have a loading dock. Eventually, enough volunteers showed up, but then we didn't have enough cordless drills to work efficiently. Meanwhile, Jim Kennedy worked to try to organize the maps and medals for the cavers to collect. After several hours of doing that solo, he eventually packed up and left. Also, in the background, the Shrewsbury's were packing up the artwork for the art salon. The UPS office was closed, so it was decided to entrust about $ 1 million dollars worth of artwork to me, and to put in my van in hopes that I would drop it off at a UPS store. ( I will post a story about that later. ) After loading all the heavy wood on the trailer, a Colorado caver showed up to buy it for the 2011 convention, so some of it had to be off-loaded onto his truck. It would have been convenient if he could have come by an hour sooner. Afterwards, only 4 cavers stayed to clean the libary: Orion Knox, Rene Shields and Susan Souby and myself. I walked the library and could not find anything else that could be done without the instruction of the campus personnel. The facility, in my opinion, is ready to open back up to public visitors. There are quite a few wood shavings in the carpet that the janitor will have fun vacuuming up. I am sure the librarian will have to re-arrange the furniture. But I don't see how they can complain about how cavers left their library. About 4 cavers are still using the internet, but other than that the building is empty. There is a box of art supplies ( Karen Veni ?? or Conrad Schriener ?? ) sitting on the back porch along with a tire to an offroad vehicle. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
