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Our friend, Delthea, is a member of UUF-Wilmington and a counselor at our Shelter Neck Summer Youth Camps.

Thank You to All Who Came Out for an amazing workday at Shelter Neck! We celebrated SAM Moore’s birthday and his 30th Shelter Neck Anniversary. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAM! We painted tables, planted 35 WRAL dwarf azaleas, worked on the chapel, hauled off trash, worked on the pantry and many more tasks. What a beautiful day.

Thanks to our volunteers this past Saturday for cleaning our beloved ❤️ camp. With April showers and volunteers we are making great progress. Our next formal workday will be Saturday, April 27, 11:00 am through 4:30 pm. We will focus on washing of panels, sinks, stainless steel carts and painting 5 tables, two benches and a coffee table. Trash will be hauled off. Please register with [email protected] to help with planning! We need you!

Our contractor has been making great progress on the Chapel. The camp has bought a storage container, and volunteers have been moving furniture into it. The time is ripe for YOU to volunteer. Please Join Us at Shelter Neck UU Camp for the following April Workdays: Saturday, April 13 from 10:30-5 Saturday, April 27 from 10:30-5 Volunteers Needed for the Following Tasks: -Hauling trash -Cleaning items with bleach and stainless steel carts -Painting tables and benches -plaster -planting Please register by emailing: [email protected] We look forward to seeing you there. Shelter Neck UU Camp 3747 Croomsbridge Road, Burgaw, NC

March 2019 has brought lots of work to our beloved Shelter Neck Camp: *A storage container for temporary storage of furnishings *Interiors of all the buildings cleaned thoroughly and now drying. *Work Permits "pulled" from Pender County *Water pump repaired *Temporary power pole installed. *Window repairs and steeple repairs started on the Chapel *remnants of a chimney in the Chapel ceiling taken out. *An architect, an engineer and a surveyor hired. Plaster repair in the chapel will start as soon as the cleaned plaster is completely dry. What a great start to spring with a true renewal! We will be posting and emailing notices of work parties soon. Stay tuned.

Join us Saturday, January 5, to finalize our clearing out of Shelter Neck buildings to prepare for cleaning of the facilities. This will kick-start the initial restoration process. The workday will run 10 am-5 pm. Announcing: the launch of the adopt a room initiative mid January. This will allow rooms to be adopted by churches and individuals. These can be done collaboratively as well. There will be plaques placed above the doors in each room recognizing the donors! Details to come. What has happened during December: Meetings with contractors, a meeting with the NC Historical Preservation, a meeting with the architect, a design meeting, completing and turning in needed paperwork for restoration, including permits.

Here are a few photos from the Candlelight Service at Outlaw's Bridge Universalist Church.

Please consider a donation to Shelter Neck UU Camp on Giving Tuesday. Donations can be received by our Shelter Neck Recovery website below. Announcing a December Workday at Shelter Neck UU Camp: Please join us December 1 from 10 am til 4:30 pm to finish vacuuming Williams Hall and the chapel as well as complete the lath removal and the dining and kitchen floor removal. Register via ShelterNeck Recovery.weebly.com or email [email protected] to help in the planning. Thank you all for the great teamwork! https://shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com/

Don't miss the Annual UCONCI Lovefeast and Candle Lighting Service at Outlaw's Bridge Universalist Church on Sunday, December 9 at 5:30.

Saturday, November 17, Workday Thank you to the Hamilton’s, Sam Moore, Feryl Masters, Gary Mann, Carl Potter and his local friends, Susan Wasilewski and to all of the behind the scenes volunteers for the wonderful work and planning Saturday! We vacuumed 95% of Williams Hall, tore out 90% of the tile in the kitchen and kitchen, continued tearing out lath in Dix House and planned with our contractor Gary Mann next steps! This Saturday is a day of rest for honoring family time for Thanksgiving! We are so very Thankful for our Shelter Neck UU Family! Thank you!!!

Thank you to all the folks who helped the in the continued tearing out phase of the walls, the floors and planning at Shelter Neck over the weekend! Friday, November 2nd: Jane Hunt from UUFR led a group from UUFR to work! Those include Jessica Sinha, Bill MacMillan, John McLain and Dianne Irwin! Feryl Masters and Shelly Duncan from UU Congregation of Greenville were on site UCONCI Board reps! Andy Wasilewski (UUFR and UUCK) met them and spent the afternoon and evening meeting with FEMA and attending the community FEMA meeting to learn more about the community needs and our own Shelter Neck options. Thank you to all! Saturday, November 3rd: Logan Hamilton from UU Congregation of Greensboro and Community Youth Group, Rev. Justin Osterman (UUFR), Sam Moore (UUFR), Debbie and William Robertson (Community UU), Andy Wasilewski (UUFR and UUCK), Susan Wasilewski (UUCK-UUFR) and our wonderful contractor, Gary Mann of Winnabow met to tear out walls and discuss reconstruction plans. Special thanks to Debbie and William Robertson for donating a portable outdoor picnic table to hold meetings, eat and take breaks! Sunday, November 4th: Thank you to the UU Congregation of Santa Fe and Elizabeth Swope for sharing the pass the plate the first Sunday of December for Shelter Neck UU Camp Restoration! Monday, November 5th: Thank you to Jim and Dianne Saunders Duncan for their kind donation of beautiful cabinets that lock for for storage! Also thank you for the temporary storage of these until we have a storage area to keep them until December! Thank you to all for your dedication! Remember to register on our shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com volunteer link or email [email protected] to help us plan! Thank you!

Shelter Neck Recovery Work Days Greetings Shelter Neck UU Congregations, We need volunteers at Shelter Neck UU Camp for the next two Saturdays, November 3 and 10 to attempt to complete tearing out walls to prepare to sanitize and treat wood with a mold treatment. This must happen prior to lifting buildings and restoration. Your help will allow us to move our restoration forward so we can be of service to the areas so seriously impacted by Florence. Thank you from the Shelter Neck UU Camp Board Sign up at: https://shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com/volunteer.html

Thank you to Grace Raleigh Non Denominational Church Men for tearing out the wood panels in the Chapel on Saturday, What a gift! Also thank you to the Hamilton Family from Greensboro UU Congregation and the Community Church of Chapel Hill, Sam Moore from UUFR, Feryl Masters from The UU Fellowship of Greenville, and Susan Wasilewski of UUC Kinston. We appreciate everyone’s generous time.

Thanks to all who volunteered this past Saturday for a busy day at Shelter Neck. Volunteers continued work on tearing out the walls at Dix House. We were particularly happy to welcome Allison, Ethan, and Logan, counselors from Shelter Neck UU Summer Youth Camp. They were on fall break this week and made some time to come to Shelter Neck. Additional thanks to senior at NCSU, Ian Scott, from UUF-Winston-Salem, From UUF-Raleigh, there were Rev. Justin Osterman, Sam Moore, David Harvey, Sheila Higgins, and Jane Hunt. From the Community Church of Chapel Hill-UU, we had Art Andrade and Rob Hamilton. Susan Wasilewski came from UUC-Kinston. The teamwork was AMAZING! Thank you to Robert Stolar (Outlaw's Bridge Universalist Church) for offering to share professional grade scaffolding to support the restoration process. Thank you to Sheila Higgins (UUFR) for volunteering to help collaborate with UCONCI board members to support grant writing that is critically needed. Thank you to Ron Echols of UUFR for reaching out to the community for construction materials. Thank you to Jane Harrison of UUFR for facilitating the UUFR response to the relief efforts. -- Susan Wasilewski - Camp Manager

Thanks to our congregations who have earmarked Sunday collections for Shelter Neck recovery. As of now, they include our Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Wilmington, and Greenville congregations. The Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of Kinston is giving $1000 per $25k in plate collections up to $4k! We have added two more dates for volunteer work parties on Saturdays November 3 and 10. To sign up for a workday or to donate funds, please go to: https://shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com/

From Sam Moore of UUFR: What a day at Shelter Neck! We really laid affliction, or maybe I should say 2 flictions on the moldy mildewy wallboard on 1st floor of Dix House. I hated to see that old timey - looking beadboard plywood wainscoting get trashed and wall board and plaster, too -- but they were horribly moldy and mildewy and had to come out. You can see daylight through the outer walls of 1st floor Dix House now. The roadsides at Shelter Neck and other parts of Pender County are sad sights with people's possessions cast out like trash. Anyhow, we accomplished a lot in Dix House and fortunately were able to save some things. Y'all were right about the wicking effects of the wallboard ! Will there be other workdays besides October 6, 13, and 20 ? I will gladly volunteer !

Photos from our first recovery day at Shelter Neck UU Camp. We’re having two more workdays on Oct 13 and Oct 20. Sign up at https://shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com/

Shelter Neck Recovery Work Days Saturdays October 6, 13 and 20 Dear Friends, we will be having 3 big work days at Shelter Neck in October to get the basic recovery work done, mitigating the damage from the flood to the structures.. Then we will access next steps for further recovery and then rebuilding. When you sign up, we will be contacting you directly about the work that will be done on the day that you are there and what you need to bring and be prepared for. We have launched a website dedicated to recovery efforts: https://shelterneckrecovery.weebly.com/

Thank you very much to David Harvey from UUFR, Stefan Wasilewski, Andy Wasilewski, a local Burgaw woman named Cindy, and Jon our heat and air guy. They moved many of the items that were most at risk up to the third floor of Dix or on top bunks and stage in Williams. Our risk for flooding is great but given the wonderful gifts of time and hard work much will be protected and saved! Again we are all grateful! Love, Faith and Hope, Susan Wasilewski SNC Manager