APT One almost ready for painting

Hoping to get the last of the electrical, and the heating completed this week on the first Apartment. Then the dry wall and plasterng will be started and then WE CAN PAINT!!!!!!!!! WIll post the day for the painting party! LEt us know if youare interested in being invited:)

We still need help cleaning up the basements and hanging doors. A few windows still need to be installed as well.

Saturday, September 18 is Demolition Day!

Summer has been crazy busy thanks to all who helped: Dan, David, Manuel, Laura, Lori, Sarah and others. Saturday September 18 will be a dumpster filling day! All are invited to come and demo the storefront. We'll be ripping down cabinets, yanking out heating vents, knocking down drywall and halling out any remaining garbage. We will also be cleaning the basement(s) and gutting two kitchens. If none of that appeals to you we also need help with pulling weeds from the parking lot. We'll start at 9:00 and work until 5:00 So stop by any time. We so appreciate everyone who has helped in the past and love the sweet fellowhip of time spent with friends. We hope to be renting apt 1 by November.

Park Market cleaning day!

This Wednesday from noon until five we will be cleaning out the store front! The dumpster is crying out to be filled. SO if you are free and would like to lend a hand please join us Aug 4!

Rummage Sale

Anyone who is interested in helping with a rummage sale please join us this Saturday June 18 at 8:00 wen we will be hauling all the junk out of the Park market and selling it! We will cancel if the weather is bad, so check here if in doubt. Of course anyone can come and clean the basement if they would like to, even if it is raining!

May 22 Two more bathrooms gutted thanks to David and Chris. Lots of garbage out of the garage and the backyard thanks to Sarah Parsons! Time to shop for inexpensive flooring for the bathrooms and kitchens.

April 24 Clean up

Thanks to Nick, Nate, Luke, Victoria, Melissa, Amanda, Manuel, Dan, David, Lee, Glennda, Chris, and John for helping out at the Park Market again. Working in the rain, clearing out the moldiest basement ever, clearing the alcholic beverages from the store, cleaning a few more rooms in the store front, and piling up scrap metal galore for Mark to haul away! You are a blessing! WE will be out of town this weekend and the next is crammed full of activities so our next clean up date won't be until mid May. Watch for details.

April 15 UPdate

Thanks to the team who showed up Saturday! Camille, Rosemarie, Manuel, Dan, Wally, Mark, George and the boys from Basketball. Toliets and sinks came out of the bathrooms, Apt 2 bedroom was cleaned and the infamous 2nd basement was opened and a path was cleared to get in. Who would have thought that so much stuff could still await disposal!!!!! One large room is full of empty 2 liter bottles. So this Saturday we aren't having a morning clean up time becasue we will be across the street cleaning up the river!!!!! BUT the next Saturday April 24 will be a huge, huge clean up day! Bring your friends and let them experience the joy of garbage removal :)

Signs are down!

The ugliest signs on the building have now been removed! WOW DAN! You didn't let the rain stop you! Thanks Geroge, Annah and Rob for your help in getting some big clunky furniture out of the building. Where will the mice go now that their bedding is gone?

apt 2 looking better

Thanks to the Eastbrook Senior High service project team who came and hauled out garbage from apt two! It now looks like there is a floor.

Thanks to the team who showed up on April 20

New to the Park Markert cleaning experience on Saturday were Victoria Parsons, Nate Roedl, Greg Roedl and Juliann Lau. Thanks for giving up a Saturday morning and braving a time in the Park Market. Coming back this week for more of the same dirty work were Chris, David, Manuel, Dan and John Dykstra. What great friends! We know Ron would have been around if he wasn't working and sick with a cold.

THE BOILER HAS BEEN REMOVED!

Dan, Manuel, John and DAVID smashed apart the boiler and removed it piece by piece into the recycling dumpster! What a mess! Check out the photo of David!

Taking down the signs!

This Saturday, April 3 we won't have a work day but we will maybe take down some of the signage on the outside of the building. Working from 9-11 am. Then off to a Belarus meeting! If you want to come help for 2 hours we'd welcome you.

YES! we are cleaning this saturday again!

This week we hope to work on the rest of the basement junk, apartment # 2, the garage and maybe even gut a few bathrooms. Always looking for help so bring a friend and come hang out. 9:00- 2:00.

20 plus appliances hauled out of the Park Market!!!!!

WOW! What Amazing work as the half of the basemenet was cleaned out and 14 washers and dryers were removed. Ron and Manuel were on the scene at 9:00 ready to move things and weren't going to let any thing stop them. Thanks to the strong team of guys who not only muscle and perserverence, but could with stand the horribel odor and filth of it all. Thanks Dan, Sam, Manuel, Ron, John, Danny. 20 minutes of work with a stuck freezer on the stairs nearly killed the team. Removing rotten food from the 3rd apartments refrigerator came even closer to doing everyone in. At least 8 appliances were removed in addition to the stuff in the basement. George and Sarah were amazing in getting the back stairs to apartment 2 cleared out, not to mention all the garbage from Apt 2 kitchen! We can see the floor now. How may beer cans were there? Michele and Danny showed up just in time to relieve a tried team and to put a huge dent in the piled high garbage of apartment 2. NO great treasures found this week unless you count the 4 mice found dead in the kitchen. ( Dead mice are a good thing!) SO we have over 100 cubic yards of junk removed! How much more to go????

55 cubic yards of garbage down, How many more to go??????

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all of you who helped out last Saturday! George, Mario, Kaitlin, Melissa, David, Manuel, Dan, Ron, Chris and Sam. We continue to be amazed and blessed by each of you. The clearing of the attic was incredible! Who would think that all that stuff could be gone in a few hours?

This Saturday We will be at it again, starting at 9:00. Anyone wanting to join in is welcome :) We will be yanking sinks and toliets, finishing the third apartment clean out, hauling the 13 plus washers and dryers from the basement (bring a dolly if you have one) and maybe (A big Maybe) starting on the garages. We will have a metal dumpster this weekend as well as another 30 yard waste dumpster.

Saturday March 13 Work day

We will be at the park market this Saturday, March 13 at 9:00 hauling stuff from the attic to the dumpster. We will also continue to work on the store and breaking down the refrigeration units. An electrician is checking out the place on Friday, but we may need to work with generators and battery operated equipment. It is suppose to be raining, but hey it sould be worse it could be snow.

A great Big Thank You!

A great BIg Thank You goes out to Chris Herlinger, Mario Lopez, David Lallave, Manuel Diaz, Mark Anderson, Hector, Melissa Roedl, Dan Parsons, George Sze, and Wally Johnson!!! You are the greatest! Anyone willing to pick through garbage for a friend is a friend indeed! Thanks too to Chris' brother for picking up the junk he hauled away! It feels so good to have a dumpster full and the store front a bit less inviting to the mice. God Bless you all!

Garbage Day March 6!

If you are brave and can endure dirty, smelly, cold, mice-infested conditions we'd love your help this Saturday to fill a dumpster with garbage. Our plan of attack is to remove the food and garbage from the store front to prepare for the break down and removal of all the old refrigeration units. Wear clothing that can be washed in very hot water or bleached, old shoes, gloves and hat. Masks are suggested and we will have a limited number available. Pitch forks and shovels will be useful. Stop by anytime between 9:30 and 12:30. Anyone with a pick up truck? We'd also love to haul some larger items to the city dump site, including a lot of t.v.s and computer monitors. Can't help out this weekend? There will be more opportunities! We'll post them here.

Purpose of this blog

This blog was created to help all our friends know about what we are doing with the old Park Market. We purchased this property on January 22, 2010. We made the purchase as a way of helping the previous owner, but also with hopes of renovating a wonderful old building and making it a positive part of the neighborhood. It is our hope to renovate the 3 apartments and rent them. With this revenue we will be able to maintain the building and use the store front for ministry. It is hoped that an artists' ministry will develop, but that other ministries may also find this space useful. Right now we are looking at installing new furnaces and replacing all the plumbing. We have an incredible amount of garbage to remove from the property. When dumpsters are ready to be filled we'd appreciate any help anyone wants to offer with cleanup. We'll post the clean up dates at this blog.