Preparing to Pave the Way

Wednesday some decisions were made on where a storage building could work in the second phase of the parish's Pave the Way plan to expand parking. This storage building is needed to hold items currently in the parish office basement. The current office will also be demolished in phase two.

They also considered the best way to put some stairs in-between the new parish office and the church. These steps will be temporary as they will be replaced by a ramp in phase three of the plan.

Tearing Down a Wall

 There was a lot of activity in the storage room yesterday.

To make more room, one of

 the walls was taken out.

Then the smashed bricks were hauled away.

Because the elevator will take away some of the room to store tables and chairs, it was important to first expand what we have,

How will the new storage work?

With the addition of the new chapel, there is storage space below it as well. At the bottom of the new stairs is a door leading into the building.

That door leads into a small entry area. One of the doors (with the board currently across it in the picture above) leads into the kitchen.

Above is a picture of that same

 door from the kitchen side.

 Then there is also a door to

 the north of this entry area.

That door leads into a storage area. On Monday this is one of the things the Fire Marshall will look at. If all goes well, we'll be able to bring in shelving and start filling it up.