Before!
Despite the threat of rain, the ridding of the sand took place today. The United Way Centre use to be a day care and there were two large sandboxes on the east wall. The idea was to take one sandbox and turn it into a community garden, the other the Metis Nation are planting with traditional herbs and native mediciences.
But for the community garden plot to get underway they had to get rid of the sand. So the digging began with the incredible support of our SALEP Centre. Nothing is more helpful than 6 or so teen boys when you need heavy work done.
I did laugh as a back-hoe drove by and everyone stopped digging and watched it go slowly by, wishing it would stop and help. But the fence would have prevented any major mechanical assistance, this was going to be sweat and sweat alone.
They did it, they dug and sweated and a huge thank you to Peter McIllwraith who showed up with a dump truck! That really helped, big time!
I saw the shovels all standing waiting for helpers and thought it would make an interesting picture. Turns out the Educational Assistant did too! The kids thought we were nuts taking pictures of shovel handles.
I think they are three-quarters done, at least the rain held off.
The sand is heading up to M'wikwedong Native Cultural Centre, nothing is going to the dump!!
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