Dudley School Rehabilitation Project Seeking Volunteers Friday and Saturday

The Dudley School rehabilitation is in full swing and we need more community volunteers this weekend with workdays  at Dudley scheduled for Friday November 3rd and Saturday 4th starting at 8:00 Am until 11 or 12.

The primary volunteer work this weekend is the repair, cleaning and painting of windows.
Some minor repairs to exterior and paint touchup. 

The work on the windows is not strenuous.  We need to clean glass with old paint, remove bad putty and re-putty. Then we will be painting them. We have some new glass panes for the missing and broken ones. Other work is to install some fence posts on the perimeter.

Friday and Saturday the temperature is going back up to 70+ degrees. We can use all hands that can be there to help with the restoration of this important and historic property that dates back to 1901! 

 This project is a collaborative project that is a combination of a diverse group of community volunteers, leadership by Alamogordo City Commissioner and past student, Sharon McDonald, project management by Joe and Debra Lewandowski, the Tularosa Basin Historic Society, the City of Alamogordo and corporate sponsors. Just this week 
TDS donated a $1,000 towards the Dudley project. Thank you to them for this important support and assistance from n helping to bring this soon to be community center back to life in the history neighborhood of Chihuahuita.

A reminder that this project will pay tribute to the history and the culture of the neighborhood and will host storyboards of individuals and teachers that actually lived and breathed as students in the building during the era of segregation. Additionally a playground and community center open to all is evolving out of this historic space.

The building original construction began in 1901 making it one of the oldest buildings in Alamogordo and the oldest public building to be rehabilitated in the historic neighborhood of Chihuahuita.

The Dudley School rehabilitation project has been mentioned and featured in major news stories around the nation to include New Mexico Magazine, television and radio, print and online media. This project is of significant importance to community pride in the most diverse and historically important neighborhood in Alamogordo.

We hope to see you come out and help volunteer on Friday and Saturday. 

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