If you wish to be considered for Vestry, Stewardship, Membership, Finance,  or Property committees, please see one of the following members of the Nominating Committee: Jacquie Valatka, Caroline Watson-Felt or Anne Busteed, or speak to the Rector or any member of the Vestry listed on the back cover of this leaflet. Please consider how God is calling you to be a part of God's community of faith.

Here's an update on the Together Now campaign projects scheduled in the Spring:

- Replace the Chapel sidewalk (as was done on the Parish House side last year)

- Parish House clapboard & trim repair/replacement/paint

Our neighbor Bob Levesque, owner of American Steeple, has been overseeing the project.  The fa�ade has been stripped, old storms removed, new primed clapboard & flashing installed, and window frames scraped and prepared for the new storms.  Restoration of the original entryway is just about completed.  

We will do the finish painting ourselves in the Spring. Get your paint brushes ready!

- New high-R storms for the front windows in the Parish House

Custom-made storms for the dozen fa�ade windows ran about $250 each, installed, and should be in any day. 

There are another 14 on the sides that we'll want to replace when we find funds to repaint the Parish House brickwork & window frames. We hope this project will be funded and underway this Spring.

The property goal for the Capital Campaign was to "seal the envelope" from water & weather damage.  We'll be there by the end of this year!

Other Grounds & Buildings News:

The City of Salem performed a building inspection this week and found no violations that would prevent issuing our certificate.  Good news!

We didn't manage a garden day to put The Quinlan Memorial Garden to bed for the winter.  After all the work last year, however, our spring garden day shouldn't be any more difficult.  Sadly, another faithful member of the Quinlan family was interred in the garden during 2014, after the untimely death of David Quinlan.  A memorial brickway at the foot of the Celtic Cross is in the final planning stages for those who are, and those who wish to be, memorialized in this beautiful garden.

Michael Ouellette, a journeyman plumber who with his wife Melissa and kids Coleman & Quinn attend The Young & The Restless Chapel, volunteered to do some heating system repairs this week.  Thanks, Mike!  Your willingness to take on these old steam radiators is a huge blessing.

Tom Tucker constantly monitors the state of our buildings.  He took care of troubleshooting a cellarway retaining wall that has shifted, and met with an arborist to see if a huge tree on the parish house property line was responsible.  He says all is OK at this point, though the tree should be pruned to preserve the adjacent roof.  He also came up with a solution to stabilize the entryway floor inside the apartment entry that dropped as a basement beam settled and aged.  This should be handled over the winter.

Faithfully submitted,

Eric Wagner