CRC News
By Linda M. Champagney

With January comes a new beginning. It’s our annual opportunity to make a fresh start, to do things we wanted to do last year but didn’t for one reason or another, and we’re hoping that includes a new resolution to volunteer for those of you who haven’t yet.

The CRC Membership Committee is getting started this month and is looking for people to attend the meetings. There will be envelope-stuffing to be done, and brainstorming on effective ways to get the word out to everyone about CRC’s mission to keep the lakes healthy, clean and safe. If you’d like to help in this worthy effort, please contact us by website or at the PO box listed below. We’d love to have you.

The Babb’s Restoration Project continues and is also looking for volunteers on Saturdays and other days by appointment. (Contact Scott@babbsrink.org to arrange for alternate times.) The standing seam metal roof contract was awarded to Eagle Rivet Roof Service Company in March of 2008. They held their March 2008 price for us and we gave them additional work, totaling $49,900. This allows the new soffit to be installed where the upper roof meets the high wall. Our historically significant 13-pane windows are being carefully reglazed by Two Guys Painting. Three sides of the rink are ready for the standing seam metal roof to be put on and it is in progress.

Work days will continue on Saturdays unless otherwise posted on the website, and other days by appointment, weather permitting. There are multiple indoor projects to be done as our budget allows.

Kevin O’Kane, an Eagle Scout from Windsor Locks, is presenting for approval his project to build a Visitor’s Kiosk for the Babb’s property, which will be constructed from recycled materials from the rink and will offer information on the beach, the rink, the rails to trails nearby, and other local points of interest. It will have places for local brochures and business cards.

We wish to thank All-Gas of Hartford for providing heat inside the rink for warming up our volunteers and Jimmy’s Pizza, Point Grove Road, Southwick, for feeding them on Saturdays. We encourage you to get involved with our projects and see what we’re doing to provide a safe place for your children to enjoy. Take a look at our websites and keep up with what’s happening. View Babb’s wish list (www.babbsrink.org) and consider donating some of the materials we need. We’re constantly looking for sponsors for building materials and cash donations. We can’t do everything with nothing, but we can do a lot with a little! Come by for a visit and see what’s going on.

Citizens Restoring Congamond is a duly authorized Non-Profit organization, dedicated to the protection and betterment of the Congamond Lakes. You may contact us at www.congamond.org or P.O. Box 651, Southwick, MA 01077.

• Restore building to roller skating rink and multifunction usage.
• Sublease the building to a rink operator.
• Any profits realized from the sublease will be utilized for CRC’s mission of the protection and preservation of the Congamond Lakes.

How can you help?

• Volunteer for work days.
• Donate an item on our wish list.
• Contribute funds towards the restoration.
• Tell your friends and neighbors about the project.

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