Thanks to Telus and the other volunteer workers

Saturday we had 27 Telus workers volunteer their time to run 3 Km of cable to bring dial tone into the Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park. Total cost estimate of $27,500 was reduced by donation of time from the workers and some materials from Telus.

Thanks to all who pray for continued road access and for safety of all who attend and work on Camp projects! Thanks to the Crew from Northside that gave their time to bring cooking equipment, (sharp knives), culinary skills, and music to serve the community. They prepared and served lunch and dinner to the volunteers that came to work to provide emergency communications capability to both the Provincial Park and Chilliwack Lake Camp. Thanks to the people who came up to drop off tables and chairs at the temporary kitchen at the Provincial Parks service yard. Thanks to the crew that went down to Camp and vaccumed the cobwebs out of the lodge, swept up, raked, emptied the ashes from the fire pit. Thanks to the guys who gave time expertise , materials and equipment to mount and wire up the solar panels, antennas and radio equipment to facilitate any emergency communications needed for Camp.

The Provincial Park people are so VERY happy to be able to have access to emergency communications that they gave space for us to erect an antenna for a radio shot to extend dial tone down to Camp! Still a little bit of "Tweaking" to give better service, but it works way better than the old system.
Please remember to keep campfires as small as possible to lower the chances of forest fire! Wind can come up and blow sparks into the tinder dry bush. Please clean up and burn small brush from around the woods all over Camp. The more of that we burn in a controlled fire, the less chance of wildfire!

Thanks for your help with this!

This system is to be used for emergency communications only..... not to call Mum to say "Hi" or talk too long as it is battery operated. You may need the battery to be strong enough to complete your call in the case of an emergency!