The Top out and Dry-In
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February 2021 www.bishopgadsden.org Issue 370 GADSDEN GAB A publication of Bishop Gadsden THE TOP OUT AND DRY-IN By MP Wilkerson The new Bishop Gadsden Health HVAC system (heating, ventilation, and Rehab Center is a beehive of and air conditioning) operational. carefully choreographed activity This step involves the sheathing, said Belinda Grohman, of BCG air, and water and vapor barriers, Consulting LLC. “There are people along with roofing, windows and everywhere.” temporary exterior doors. The With a degree in both business doors are temporary because and construction, she is the they get so much wear and tear at project’s program manager and this point from the steady flow of represents the interests of Bishop construction traffic in and out. Gadsden. “The exciting news is the So while the top out work is building will top out in February”. going on outside, inside workers HIGHLIGHTS: That means its structure will be are framing the building’s interior complete. Belinda continued: walls and installing rough-ins for “This is a major milestone, and to all of the building’s systems. These PAGE 3: commemorate the event, a special systems include ductwork, sprinkler Message from our board with all of the construction piping, electrical conduits, piping Vice President of workers’ signatures will be put in for mechanical and domestic water, the attic when the last truss goes sewer, roof drains, medical gas Operations up”. piping, and low voltage hangers. The building is constructed in They are being installed in the five major sections with the first spaces above the ceilings and in the PAGE 5: being the skilled nursing wing, walls. Are We There Yet? which is closest to Camp and While it may be a “hive of Ferguson roads. This section is activity,” the order has been the starting point and because of carefully thought through. The this, will always be the furthest workers of each trade have to PAGE 6: along. Current construction, which install their equipment in a specific Meet the Board of includes windows, sheathing, barrier order based on careful planning systems, and roofing, is continuing along with guidance from the Trustees in a counter clockwise direction three-dimensional construction from the skilled nursing wing to the model completed last year. This other four sections. is important for several reasons: PAGE 10: The next milestone is the dry- to prevent one trade from getting February Birthdays in, which makes the ahead of another, building watertight. requiring removal of The importance of their work to allow the the building dry-in other to get behind PAGE 11: is to allow for the it; and also for safety installation of gypsum reasons since some of A Visit to Bishop board and then the the equipment is large Gadsden’s Pantry electrical equipment and can include pipes so the building can up to 30 or 40 feet in be energized and the length. Page 2 TOP OUT AND DRY-IN CONT’D Meanwhile, over the last six months, the Bishop Gadsden leadership team has been hard at work making decisions on selections of furniture, fabrics, rugs, finishes, and paint colors for the building, which will go out to bid soon. With the green sheathing on the outside of the Health and Rehab Center, all of a sudden the structure is looking more like a building, and this will be even more so when the roof is complete and the windows have been installed. OUR FIRST MINI & THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY By Ann Gridley Richard and I were heading back to London in the summer of 1963 after he finished his MBA at Stanford. The Mini Cooper was launched just before our return. So we ordered our first car to be delivered shortly after our return. We had rented a “flat” in a nice residential neighborhood near his parents in Kensington. The car was delivered with strict instructions not to exceed 50 mph for the first 500 miles. It had spiffy red and black colors and twin carburetors. We were told that the carburetors had to be adjusted properly to be in alignment but that that could wait until our first service at 500 miles. Minis in those days were considerably smaller than they are now. One night, we went to the cinema to see a film. Though we had a garage, we parked it on the street. The next morning, we couldn’t see our car, and even checked inside the garage to see if it was there. So we reported it missing/ stolen to the police. Two weeks later, the police let us know that they had recovered our car, and it was returned to us. It had been heavily disguised with French number plates, yellow headlights (also used in France), leopard skin seat covers, and a bunch of assorted sizes of “spanners” (wrenches in the US), but no five pound notes. We kept the floor mats, but nothing else. It also had a dent in the side, but the twin carburetors were working just fine. The person who stole our car was Roy James, aka “The Weasel”. As he was a professional race car driver, he had, no doubt, done the carburetor adjustment. As you will read in the attached article from the London Times, he did not pay attention to the “don’t drive over 50mph for the first two weeks” suggestion! The Great Train Robbery occurred early on the morning of August 8th. Two point six million pounds were stolen from the train (about 55 million pounds today). Fifteen robbers were involved in the theft and eventually, 12 out of the 15 were captured. If you go to Wikipedia, you will find that as the robbers knew that their getaway cars had been spotted, they sent Roy James to London to steal a new car. I include a photo of an article the Times wrote about the car chase that the police made after spotting Roy James in our mini. The car was found near Wormwood Scrubs, which is a well known prison. We kept it until we found that it didn’t accommodate both our dog and our son and us due to its size. IN LOVING MEMORY Bettye Mitchell Vivian Stokes 12/10/1919-1/2/2021 10/19/1936-1/25/2021 Charlotte Harrell Mary Anne Witchger 3/27/1936-1/19/2021 1/27/1938-1/29/2021 Page 3 MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS By Aaron Roop It’s astounding to think that we receives a vaccine so that we can have already finished one full month of accomplish this “moon landing.” Bold 2021 and it certainly has been a very objectives take many individual acts of eventful start for both Bishop Gadsden courage and resolve to be successful. and the greater community. There I’ve had the opportunity to watch first have been significant highs and lows hand as team members and residents during these first few weeks that have mustered the courage to be one of the each demonstrated how wonderful this first to get the vaccine. Being at each community is and I truly believe that clinic, I have observed many examples the best parts of 2021 are just ahead of of what makes Bishop Gadsden such us. The year 2021 will end up being a a special community. I have watched year to celebrate and I’m sure that many as visibly frightened team members people would agree with me that this are surrounded with an outpouring of optimism for 2021 revolves around the encouragement as they bravely made exciting development and roll out of the COVID-19 their way in for their vaccine. I would share that I vaccine. I feel it is part of my duty to read anything have a fear of needles that has been so great that only and everything pertaining to the vaccine process that a few years ago a mere finger prick would cause me I can get my hands on and one article really stood to faint! When I look at the picture that was taken out to me when it likened the development of the when I received my vaccine I can still feel my fists COVID-19 Vaccine to the USA’s Moon Landing. It clenched as I prepared to take the injection. It was was a powerful comparison and it made me realize the spirit of this community that put me at ease and the significance of this portion of history that we are allowed me to gracefully go through with the vaccine. living through. I know that there are dozens of stories of bravery The comparison of the vaccine to the Moon that have been quietly written and I am certain that Landing also reminded of a story from when JFK there are dozens more stories that are about to be visited NASA. The story goes like this. President finalized as our neighbors and teammates muster John F. Kennedy was visiting NASA headquarters for the courage to get their first and second doses in the first time in 1961. While touring the facility, he the coming weeks. One day in the future, when we introduced himself to an employee who was mopping look back and celebrate the success of the vaccine, the floor and asked him what he did at NASA, and Bishop Gadsden’s generosity of compassion and the employee replied, “I’m helping put a man on the support is going to be at the core of what made it moon.” successful and possible. Please join me in celebrating Our focus at Bishop Gadsden is similar right those who have already received their vaccine and now in that we all have a laser focus on making sure compassionately supporting those who are on their that every single eligible resident and team member own personal journey to receiving their vaccine! FRIENDS FOR EDUCATION THANKS YOU! By Adelaide Wallinger Friends for Education (FFE) offers a big thank you to the 17 Bishop Gadsden residents who will be mentoring and/or tutoring Charleston County students once a week during the school year.