Lodge Work Weekend

Buck-up & Split Wood

• Age Requirements: 18+ w/prior experience to use chainsaw, 13+ with parental permission to use splitting axe, any age can stack wood
• Project Needs & Costs: You can contribute toward chainsaw gas and oil if you like, but otherwise this project is paid for with sweat and tears! (we’d like to avoid blood if at all possible)
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Site Projects

Cabin Construction (help camp build 2 brand new cabins!)

• May include framing, roofing, painting, etc.
• Age Requirements: 16+, prior construction experience preferred
• Project Needs & Costs: Basic framing costs have already been paid for, but approximately $1500 per cabin is still needed to cover interior finishing and electricity.
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Site Projects

Cleaning Windows

• Window cleaning in the Lodge and Cabins
• Age Requirements: 14+
• Project Needs & Costs: Willing hands and positive attitude are all we need to get this project done as camp already has all the necessary supplies.

Lawn Mowing & Weed Whacking

• Age Requirements: 16+
• Project Needs & Costs: Contribute towards the gas & maintenance costs of our mower and power-whacker as cutting the lawn with scissors takes a very long time!
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Site Projects

Painting the Lodge

• Numerous interior and exterior painting projects to choose from including: girls’ and boys’ bathrooms, hallways, stairwells, benches, exterior siding and fascia, etc.
• Age Requirements: 14+
• Project Needs & Costs: Donations of both the monetary and gifts-in-kind variety* would be much appreciated for the numerous painting projects we have around this ageing facility.
• *Quality brushes, rollers, trays, paints, thinners, etc.
• Please note if you are planning on donating paint: colour & type will need to be approved prior to use (even if a neon pink pool house seems like a really good idea…)
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Site Projects

Refurbishing 12 Fireside Room Bench Seats

• Reupholstering, painting
• Age Requirements: 16+
• Project Needs & Costs: Monetary contributions toward the purchase of new foam & 24 metres of fabric would be much appreciated. (Seats and backs are 17″ by 72″)
• Tools Needed to Complete Project

Repairing / Preparing Walls and Other Surfaces for Painting

• Spackling, sanding, dry walling, etc.
• Age Requirements: 16+, prior experience preferred
• Project Needs & Costs: Supplies for dry walling, spackling, sanding, etc. Monetary contributions or quality physical supplies would be much appreciated.
• Tools Needed to Complete Project

Upgrading ITC Course

• Repair lava pit, make new spider web, replace pivot on balance board
• Includes spreading 1 to 2 inches of fresh wood chips over entire site (smaller hands welcome!)
• Age Requirements: All ages welcome especially for spreading wood chips
• Project Needs & Costs: Pressure treated lumber, paracord, assorted hardware & wood chip mulch are a few of the supplies we will need to complete this project.
• Tools Needed to Complete Project

Fencing

• Fencing is a big project around here.
• We have 300 acres of fences to check out. We need help!
• Project Goals Include:
  • Renovating the wooden fencing surrounding the camp by replacing fence posts and rails.
  • Replacing the gates at the barns.
  • Checking perimeter of our pasture and replacing/repairing barbwire fencing.
• Three teams of volunteers will split up to cover the various fencing locations.
• If you want to be outside swinging a hammer, this is the job for you!
• Age Requirements:18+ to go out on the land and do the barbwire fencing, 18+ to supervise post & rail fencing project, 12+ to assist with post & rail fencing project (supervised).
• Project Needs & Costs:Donations towards the cost of the new posts & rails would be appreciated. As would physical posts, rails, and/or hardware.
• *If you are donating supplies, please touch base with the Lodge Office first.
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Barns Projects

Renovating the Round Pen

• Build-up/level the base of the round pen prior to topping up with sand.
• Two small teams of volunteers will help level and build up our round pen.
• The first team will move the heavy sand into the round pen with a Bobcat and then level it by hand using shovels.
• The second team will help build up the base of the round pen by drilling plywood boards to the round pen panels. This will allow us to add softer sand to the round pen at a later date.
• These two layers of sand will allow our horses-in-training to learn on safe, stable ground.
• Age Requirements:18+ with prior construction experience to use power tools, 14+ to assist with project (parental supervision required for those 14-15)
• Project Needs & Costs:Sand has already been purchased. Donations will go toward the purchasing of pressure treated lumber for the base of the fence.
• *If you are donating supplies, please touch base with the Lodge Office first.
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Barns Projects

Salt Arena

• Dust can make our covered arena almost unusable!
• A small amount of magnesium chloride evenly distributed can vastly improve the situation.
• Younger helpers will spread salt while supervisors ensure even distribution and will help rake the salt under the surface of the sand.
• Age Requirements:All ages welcome! (12 and under require parental supervision.)
• Project Needs & Costs:Help contribute towards purchasing the magical anti-dusting powder (salt).
• Estimated cost is approximately $150 for amount required.
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Barns Projects

Weed Spraying

• When you have some weeds in the neighbourhood, who do you call? Weed Busters!
• Thistles and buttercup have begun to grow in our pastures surrounding the barns. These beautiful plants are weeds in a horse pasture.
• Volunteers will spray the flowers using garden variety herbicide, thus blessing our horses with better quality pasture to enjoy.
• Age Requirements: 14+
• Project Needs & Costs:Garden variety herbicide & sprayers to apply it with are the primary supplies needed for this project. Donations of the monetary and/or gifts-in-kind variety* towards this project would be greatly appreciated.
• *If you are donating supplies, please touch base with the Lodge Office first.
• Tools & Items Needed for Lodge Barns Projects