Caring Made a Difference

Take a look at the difference the care modeled by Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg of St. Bernard Project made in rebuilding a community after Hurricane Katrina.

This video was produced by John Lanning and Cindy Meyer as their Capstone project for the MPA program at The Evergreen State College.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Dx7kEJx1Y&feature=g-upl

A Collage of Tumwater Teens April 2011

The Olympian Newspaper Article

Check out this newspaper article about Tumwater Teens & St. Bernard Project:

http://www.theolympian.com/2011/04/04/1603429/students-spending-vacation-on.html

Tumwater Teens - Last Day of Work - April 8, 2011

We worked 1/2 day today - laying laminate flooring, working on window casings, and doors. We stopped by the St. Bernard Project office at the end of the day and we were able to talk to Liz McCartney, co-founder of St. Bernard Project! Back to Washington tomorrow . . .

Tumwater Teens Spring Break Trip - April 7, 2011

Painting done! The flooring and related supplies arrived, and we unloaded the truck - and then started installing the laminate flooring. . .

Tumwater Teens Spring Break Trip - April 7, 2011

At lunch today, we visited last year's work site. It had been a fitness center pre-Katrina. We spent five days in 2010 gutting the building and throwing away the debris and equipment. The pastor remembered us and has the picture we gave him hanging up in his office! The former fitness center will reopen as the Garden of Prayer Church. If we come back next year, he said he'd have a barbecue for us :)

Tumwater Teens Spring Break Rebuild Trip (April 6, 2011)

We were busy finishing the painting, priming, and some drywall today!

Tumwater Teens Rebuild Trip: Day Two (April 5, 2011)

Day Two at the Dupre house - more mudding, sanding, priming, and painting! Most of the downstairs painting is complete, and we're starting to work upstairs!

The Tumwater Teens Spring Break Volunteer Trip: Our first day of work: April 4, 2011

Here we are in the Lower Ninth Ward working on Brenda Dupre's home. Most of the day was spent priming and painting the walls, or doing some drywall. We looked at the house next door - untouched since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. St. Bernard Project has rebuilt over 350 homes so far - more than any other nonprofit in the New Orleans area.

Tumwater Teens - Off to New Orleans

Tumwater Teens and Chaperones ready to leave for airport!

Tumwater Teens are showing off their t-shirts with sponsor logos on the back!

The Tumwater Teens are students at Black Hills High School. They are (left to right): Erin Schneider, Caleb Montelongo, Trevor Smith, Lindsay Swick, Katie Repine, Tori Stamp, Mariah Kerrihard, Lindsey Meyer, and Tanner Johnson

The Tumwater Teens left yesterday for New Orleans! Tomorrow we start our work rebuilding a home destroyed when the levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. St. Bernard Project has rebuilt over 350 homes to date! The Teens have been busy since November getting ready for this trip. First, they raised about $800 for St. Bernard Project in their Home for the Holidays campaign. Then they started putting on garage sales, and selling candy bars, and recruiting local sponsors to help pay for their trip. They were able to fundraise for approximately $350 of the $700 cost for the trip.

Tumwater Teens want to give a special thanks to their local business sponsors:

• Titus Will Olympia, a car deal at the Olympia auto mall


• South Sound Women's Center, offers medical care for women


• Dr. Joseph de Jesus, DDS, PS, Orthodontics for Children and Adults

Garage Sale a Success - Thank you!

Tumwater Teens raised $804 toward travel expenses at the March 6 garage sale!!!
Thanks to everyone who attended and to our local sponsors:

• Titus Will
• South Sound Women's Center
• Dr. Joseph de Jesus
  

We're having another garage sale on Sunday, March 6!

Dont' Forget - Garage Sale Fundraiser Feb. 26!

Thank you to everyone to came to our garage sale! We raised $500 toward our travel expenses. We are holding another garage sale on Sunday, March 6!!!

The Tumwater Teens Garage Sale Fundraiser: Feb 26 9 am to 4 pm

The Tumwater Teens - ten students from Black Hills High School - will return to New Orleans April 2 for their third annual rebuild trip. Come to their garage sale!

When: Saturday, February 26, 2011
When: 9 am to 4 pm
Where: 5921 Gold Dust Court SW, Tumwater, WA

Talk with the teens about their rebuilding work for St. Bernard Project in New Orleans, buy some great items (Bow Flex, exercise equipment, prom dresses, books, homemade flies, baked goods, and other misc. items).

Proceeds will defray teen travel expenses to New Orleans

Home for the Holidays Raffle Winners - $765 Raised

2010 Home for the Holidays Charity Raffle

12-15-10: The Tumwater Teens held the raffle drawing this afternoon

$765 was raised and donated to St. Bernard Project
to help a family move home.

• Debi Thompson won a Downtown Olympia Staycation - One night stay in a spa suite at the Phoenix Inn, two tickets to the Olympia Symphony Orchestra and dinner (up to $30) at The Lemongrass Restaurant
• Robin Johnson won a Golf Outing and Lunch: 18 holes of golf for two (one outing) at Tumwater Valley and lunch at Brewery City Pizza ($20 gift certificate)
• Heather Alexander, Greg Payne, and Miguel Villalobos each won a Holiday Dinner: Relax at Christmas or New Year's Eve - just pick up your choice of a turkey, ham, or prime rib dinner at Albertson's
• Leanna Olive won a six-month Basic Family Membership (2 adults and children of the household) at Hands-On Children's Museum
• Debi Thompson won Lunch and Art, a meal at The Cheesecake Factory in Bellevue ($25) and a visit to the Seattle Art Museum (2 general admission tickets - not good for the Picasso exhibit)
• Kevin Wimsett won Wine Tasting: Private Wine Tasting for up to ten guests at Hoodsport Winery (Value $150)
• Heather Alexander won Lunch and a Movie Date: Lunch at the Outback Restaurant ($25 value) and 2 movie tickets at Cinemark Theater at Capital Mall
• Keith Meyer won Date Night: Dinner at Olive Garden ($25 value) and 2 movie tickets at Cinemark Theater at Capital Mall
• Amy Swick won Kayak Outing and Breakfast for Two: at Tugboat Annies
  
• John Lanning won Dinner in Tacoma at The Old Spaghetti Factory (four entrees up to a $40 value plus an order of garlic cheese bread)
• Kelly McNeal won a $50 gift certificate from Fred Meyer
  
• Heather Alexander won an outing (2 adults, 2 children) at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle
• John Lanning won a 3D Cake for up to 25 people - from Cake Designs by Deanna
• Savannah Morrison won coffee, pastries, tea (up to $25) from Cutters Point Coffee in Lacey
• Kevin Winsett won two passes to Wolf Haven
• Doug Stamp won a multi-tool kit and lunch cooler tote from Lowe's ($75 value)
  
• Gift Certificates (from various local businesses):
• Christina Schneider: Bed, Bath, and Beyond ($20)
  
• Caitlin Meyer: Emerald City Smoothie -Tumwater ($10)
  
• Bryan Swick: Capitol Perks ($10)
  
• Doug Stamp: Costco ($25)

Congratulations prize winners! Thank you local businesses!

Home for the Holidays information from St. Bernard Project

$5 Helps St. Bernard Project Bring Families Home!

The Tumwater Teens are back home safe and sound, but thousands of New Orleanians are still waiting for a home to return to nearly five years after Katrina.

Want to help? Text "NOLA" to 50555 to give $5 to help St. Bernard Project rebuild New Orleans communities.

Our Last Day of Work - April 9, 2010

The work is done, and the team is exhausted yet proud of their accomplishments. At the beginning of the week, the enormity of removing tons of debris and gutting the huge building made it seem an impossible. Yet, in just five days the downstairs of the building is gutted and ready for rebuilding. We ended the day at a Welcome Home Party, and were able to tour a home recently rebuilt by St. Bernard Project.

St. Bernard Project is still hard at working rebuilding communities and lives.

Our Fourth Day of Work - April 8, 2010

What a difference four days can make. The building is becoming an empty, gutted structure - a blank canvas for the creation of a community church.

The day was blessed with hard work, good food provided by church members, and visits with friends. Les Scharfenstein stopped by the work site - a former St. Bernard Project client who now works for the organization part-time. We also visited with Sharon Ansardi - whose house was rebuilt in 2008 by St. Bernard Project after three years of living in a FEMA trailer. Both people expressed overwhelming gratitude for the volunteers who help rebuild their homes and their community.

Our Third Day of Work - April 7, 2010

Much of the downstairs has been gutted, furniture and gym equipment broken down and removed. The Katrina-ravaged contents that had remained in a gymnasium for over four years are almost gone.

Members of the church arrive daily to look at the progress of their new church and to serve lunch to the 50+ Shirts Across America volunteers.

Our Second Day of Work - April 6, 2010

The gutting of the old gymnasium (soon to become a church) continues. It's amazing how much can be accomplished in just a day or two. The floor is ripped up - much of the drywall downstairs is gone - and literally tons of debris removed from the building and hauled away.