Gazebo

	A Gazebo in the Woods The library grounds will include a few outbuildings, including a gazebo across from the Ester Post Office. This structure will be nestled in amongst the birches and alders growing on the tailings there, and will feature benches, a few book and magazine shelves, a bulletin board, and space for informational brochures or fliers from local businesses and organizations. Flowerpots or small garden beds around the building will complete the view. The posts need to have holes drilled in them and then their bottoms rot-proofed, and then construction can begin! If you've been reserving gazebo materials, now's the time to bring them to the construction site so the carpenters can use them! Contact Hans at 479-3368 or Eric at 479-6804 for more information on the exact stuff needed and the next building session. We've got to get this thing finished by the end of June to keep the land, so please call soon! tailings laid down at the gazebo site, 7/28/07 pouring the concrete slab, 8/11/07 Eric Glos is coordinating the construction. Contact Eric at 479-6804 for more information on materials and labor needed. The gazebo will function as a quiet summertime place to rest and read, to wait for the bus or friends, for small gatherings in an outdoorsy but sheltered setting, and to find out what's going on around the village. In the winter, it will serve as a place to get in out of the wind or to wait for the bus--and will still be a good spot for posting notices. The building will be octagonal, featuring glass walls (safety glass from old shower doors) and roomy benches, and a cylindrical cork bulletin board in the center. Posts of local wood will support the roof. The gazebo will sit on a concrete pad or footer and will be about 12-14 feet across. Below is a rough floor plan of the gazebo (not a final and not to scale). A bench will ring the outside, with an overhanging roof to shelter sitters from precipitaion. Work so far: Sunday, July 22, 1 pm: gazebo site preparation & shrubbery clearing The first work party resulted in lots of shrubbery and deadwood brushed out of the lower part of the land, a site cleared for the gazebo, and several aspens cut and delimbed at the site of the future library to dry and be used later for gazebo posts. Roger has donated some tailing fines from his mine (delivery not included--we'll have to fetch it) to lay down for a pad beneath the gazebo. Charlie & Ginny Gallagher, Eric Glos, Deirdre Helfferich, Hans Mölders, and Bob Trigg showed up. Thank you! Saturday, July 28, 1 pm: gazebo construction & shrubbery clearing The second work party involved log peeling and more shrubbery clearing. Scott Allen delivered the tailings and a pad was laid down and path to the gazebo site. Charlie & Ginny Gallagher, Eric Glos, Deirdre Helfferich, Hans Mölders, and Alice Stickney showed up! Thank you! Saturday, August 4, 11 am: gazebo pad preparation & log peeling The third work party was long, but sparsely attended. The forms for the concrete were built and eight aspen logs peeled (took a while!). Eric Glos, Deirdre Helfferich, Jake Mackey, and Hans Mölders showed up! Thank you! Saturday, August 11, noon: (concrete at 1 pm): chipping brush, laying down pathway concrete was poured and slab finished, some chipping started. Extra pavers were made, too. Scott Allen, Eric Glos, Deirdre Helfferich, Hans Mölders, the Rogers family, Gabriella Smith, and Frank Therrell showed up! Thank you!
		Gazebo wish list: dry timbers for rafters roofing material

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