Young’s Hill getting closer one pole at a time
May 7, 2011 by Diana -
Last week Keith, CSNW’s founder, and volunteer Laura helped J.B. set some poles for the fence around Young’s Hill. We are building a double fence system with a total of 220 poles, so J.B.’s going to need a lot of help in the coming weeks! If you are interested in doing some physical labor volunteering now or in the future, please contact J.B. – he’d love to hear from you.
Here’s a photo of the first set of poles that went up:
Today Denice and some terrific volunteers from Seattle University’s Animal Advocates and the Seattle Animal Defense League are setting more poles. As a big bonus to all of us, they brought vegan donuts from Mighty O in Seattle!! Mighty O donated donuts for last year’s Out of the Box auction Dessert Dash and they were recently crowned the Food Network’s Donut Champions, so this is no small treat for us humans.
Anyway, enough about delicious vegan donuts. Back to the hill. Below is a photo of today’s volunteers setting posts.
And here’s a photo of Negra and Annie. Negra was watching the poles going up. With the two greenhouse panels off, the chimps can see all the work being done on the hill.
It’s not all about poles, either. If you received our recent e-newsletter, you know that all of the topsoil left over from digging the trench for the primary fence was utilized to make some mounds on the hill. To put these mounds in perspective, here’s a photo of J.B. and Jackie on one set (imagine them as chimps!):
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Never thought I would be so excited to see wooden poles sticking right up out of the ground. These however, have such a special meaning to all of us who love these lovely creatures. Just knowing what those poles are going to do for our chimps, puts a gigantic smile right inthe middle of my heart!!!
I can’t wait to see the end result. The chimps know something exciting is coming!
We were able to get quite a bit done today thanks to the great work (volunteer) crew. We need to keep up the momentum, please if you have some time to volunteer give J.B. a call or e-mail and “lets” get this thing done so the chimps can get outside and play (the sooner the better).
This looks amazing, very exciting.
you could keep talking about those vegan donuts. they are amazing.
also young’s hill is pretty cool too, i guess. 😉
It’s looking great. Well done everyone involved 🙂
I agree with you Theresa, I think the chimps know when there’s a lot of activity going on they’ll be able to get right-in-the-middle of it, eventually.
fantastic progress well done everyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!