March, 2012

I hope you’ve been around lately to see how great the new facilities are shaping up.  Now that brick is being laid, walls are all formed, steel is mostly erected, the final form is not so much a visceral reaction;  it is a facility that is a thrilling sight to behold.

This project has taught me many lessons.  The most prominent is that construction is something that you can plan but not something that you can ultimately count on to follow a schedule with much accuracy.

Our general contractor has been pushing very hard to keep their crews working from sunup to dark Mondays through Fridays.  We felt that it would be a poor precedent to have the crews working on Shabbat but have given them the green light to work on Sundays if they need to. 

Please check the calendar to get your questions relating to timing answered with our latest information.  We hope to have the social hall open in just over two months and to start the sanctuary renovations commence in early June.  When the new social hall is open, work will begin on converting Unger Hall into our new classrooms. 

We will announce the annual meeting shortly.  The exciting thing about this is that it will be conducted in the new social hall.  How great is that?

Stay tuned for more information.

B’Shalom,
Larry Weiss