Family Appreciation
Each Thursday at both WorkFest sites, CAP holds a Family Appreciation night where we invite the participant families to join the students and CAP volunteers and staff for supper. Each crew gets the opportunity to share what they did that week on the jobsite, and participants may also speak if they’d like. Last night, one [...]
And the work goes on…
With seven schools at Camp AJ this week for WorkFest (up from five last week), we began three new crews: yellow, brown, and red, and other crews began new jobs this week. Today I visited four of the jobsites, and I was blown away by how different some of them look from last week. It’s really amazing how much [...]
Earl & Sarah
March 10, 2010 by Bridget McCormack
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“How’re ya feelin’?” I asked as I approached the trailer.
“Mostly with my fingers,” he replied with a grin that was barely noticeable on his mouth but that twinkled in his eyes.
I met Earl and Sarah at the home of one of my participants last week. They aren’t a part of the CAP elderly program, but [...]
WorkFest begins at Camp Caleb
Well, this last week was spent doing final preparations for WorkFest at Camp Caleb. This meant that we did a lot of driving and picking up and dropping off materials. After this week I was pretty tired, but excited that WorkFest is finally here because this where I first experienced CAP and my love for [...]
Closing ceremonies
Friday morning, we officially closed the first week of WorkFest. The students began the week as groups of separate schools, but by the end had come together as a community, and had become especially close with the members of their crews. One of the ways WorkFest is different from other alternative spring breaks is we [...]
Donut day!
There’s a magical place in eastern Kentucky….it’s called the Manchester Bakery. Operated by a group of Mennonites in Clay County, Kentucky, Manchester Bakery makes donuts and other baked good that are, well, heavenly. Once a week at WorkFest in our Cumberland Valley region, the Volunteer Program delivers donuts to all the jobsites. So today a [...]
I ain’t lyin,’ I’m tellin’ you a story
To many WorkFest alums, those words immediately bring to mind Mitch Barrett, an amazing performer and storyteller and longtime friend of CAP. Tonight Mitch brought down the house with another great show of traditional mountain music and his own original folk songs.
Music is an important part of Appalachian culture, and we always have some form [...]
Can I get a WorkFest?
As someone who first came to CAP through WorkFest, I am in love with this time of year. Not only do we get to accomplish an incredible amount of good in a short time, we are re-energized by the wonderful students we get to meet each year.
Yesterday we kicked things off with our first week [...]
Goodbyes and More WorkFest Preparations
With it only being a week away from WorkFest beginning in the Sandy Valley Region, we spent most of this week continuing to get ready, which I never realized how much work went into the planning and setting up of WorkFest. So on Monday we got to take a trip to the Coca-Cola bottling [...]
Learning to Walk
February 27, 2010 by Bridget McCormack
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This past week, my housemate Jordan and I visited a couple in the Elderly Services program – Ed and Anna. Ed is sixty-five and Anna is sixty-four, and they grew up together in a hollow not far from where they live now. I’d met Ed last week at the commodities food distribution, but this [...]