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Old Union Mission Trip 2025: Canton, NC, Friday 8-15

  Let me first say welcome back readers, sorry I did not get to post the Friday happenings until now.  The laptop we were using had to decide it needed updating that evening, and with the sometimes poor wi-fi signal it took a long time.  By the time it was done I was too sleepy not go straight to bed, so we might get an early start on Saturday back home. Our last work day (is it Friday already?!) here started off foggy, the old Paper Mill across from Canton Presbyterian church was hard to see.  Because of improved conditions at the Mill Springs site it was finally open.  So about half of us headed there at 6:30 AM.   On the way to our work site in Hendersonville (where I was) the fog broke up and was then only in the river valleys.  We started here at 8 AM.  It remained sunny and comfortable through early afternoon.  Praise the Lord, because we had a lot of work to finish up at the two houses on the street.  For the first house, aft...
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Friday Photos

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Because of a poky computer, we don't have time to post Clark's Friday night report.  It will be coming soon!  But in the meantime, here are some photos... Thursday night supper "Poke Pot" Our journalist! Progress on raising the walls at the Mill Spring site Barbara, the homeowner in Mill Spring  
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Pictures III from Canton 8-14-2025

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  Don and Judy Alex from HfH Phili[p from HfH Lorene caulking  Lorene and Cassandra with the homeowner Our host church in Canton flowers on the hedge outside the house
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Pictures II from Canton mission 8-14-2025

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Somebody picked a piece of forbidden fruit! Some of us at the Looking Glass Falls This is as close as you can get, Bob! Spider's web with dew  
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Pictures from the Canton Mission Trip, 8-14-2025

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Cassandra using the caulking gun Bob G. painting Judy painting Sally painting Our crew standing outside of the house   The peach tree next door
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-Old Union Mission Trip 2025: Canton, NC (8-14)

 Thursday, August 14 This is Clark your faithful blog journalist. I hate to sound like a broken record but today in Canton it  started off cloudy with just a little bit of sun on the way to our worksite in Hendersonville. Once at the two houses we were greeted not by the HfH people, but by the friendly neighborhood tomcat. The HfH guys were delayed because they had to decide what we had to do today and if Mill Springs would be an option. But because of all the rain we had last evening in most of this area, the Mill Springs site was still too muddy for us to work there, so we continued our work on the same two houses.  While we were waiting for the HfH guys some of us took a stroll across the footbridge over the small stream, called Brooklyn Creek, to the park across the street from the two houses. We could see where the stream had been high enough last night to flatten the vegetation along the banks after the heavy rains, that the locals would call a 'frog strangler'. The...
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Pictures!

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On the road The cutting crew trying to stay dry  The door installers The Foster house The neighborhood kitty The stream that became a flodd Clark with his nail gun Plenty of mattresses! The women of the work team Bob gains coping skills Measuring and delivering trim The Foster house again The work team! Looking Glass Falls in Pisgah National Forest Carl at the falls Looking Glass Falls At the bottom of the falls Sign at the swimming pool Group eating at the Fat Buddies restaurant
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