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KND Service Learning Class Update
Brethren Service Learning class celebrated their semester projects on Wednesday, January 20, 1999 in the Brethren High School all-purpose room. Over one hundred volunteers were sent certificates of appreciation and invited to the party. Guests and students enjoyed cake and ice cream and readings from the student publication Songs of Kaleva. The book was the work of Terri Herwick's American Literature students and Deborah Crandell's art students. It includes vignettes of early Kaleva settlers and original illustrations. Students in the Service Learning class compiled, edited and published the book which will be for sale for $10 at the Kaleva Art Gallery and the Welcome Center.
Included are photographs of the cabin in various stages of the project: preparing the foundation, securing the logs in order to move it into town, and taking it apart to replace rotten logs. Students are now rebuilding the gable ends, splitting cedar shingles, cutting rafters and will soon be finishing the work of putting it back together, daubing the cracks and building a stage for outdoor theater productions. Hopefully there will be some performances there this summer.
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Other projects completed this semester were moving and restoring a primitive cabin; building benches; repairing, painting and decorating Centennial chairs; researching five buildings for historical designation; landscaping the lot behind the eagle sculpture; filming and producing a video cookbook; filming other historical and artistic events; and redecorating the middle room at the Kaleva Art Gallery. Students and their teachers, Deborah Cranell and Cynthia Asiala, are in the seventh semester of their work to bring economic development and tourism to Kaleva.
The Centennial chairs are for sale in the Kaleva Art Gallery for $35 each. The students recycled them with the hope that those who purchase them will line them up on the streets and sit out to watch Kaleva's celebration of its one-hundredth birthday. Each chair has a unique design and the Finnish work "Istua," for sit. The money generated by the sale of the chairs will go toward more projects of the students in the Service Learning class. If a person provides the chair, the charge is only $25. If anyone has chairs to donate, please call 616-362-3480.