March 2023

The roof is on and the interior of the building is being framed out! Reaching the highest point of the building meant that CCC was able to celebrate the “topping off” of the addition. Part of this celebration included community members signing three beams that will be installed in the attic of the addition and become a permanent part of our new site. Appropriately, the first person to sign the beams was CCC Executive Director Pat Nelson.

At the end of the month, our Ripley students delivered the three signed beams to the new site, where they will be installed in the attic of the Barn addition, becoming a permanent part of the building. The students also watched a tree being placed on the roof of the addition — a traditional way to recognize the highest point of a building being reached. CCC Executive Director Pat Nelson made sure that the children and teachers crossed the street safely!