The End Is Just The Beginning!

Yes, we have great news to celebrate...We have our Temporary Occupancy Permit from the City of Tempe!  (Who is jumping up and down with me?!? Wait...we are all sitting or sleeping after 4 months of living and breathing construction, day-in and day-out at our club. Any many of us have day jobs!). It's pretty spectacular that it was done with almost all volunteering!

After many weeks of working on the little things to pass our inspection...

Our "Construction Manager, Foreman, Teacher to all of us," has been working diligently for weeks on end on the ADA handrails.

And many other club members have worked on these as well.

The carpets are going down in the ice house.

Looks nice, eh? We just need to give the carpets a trim.

After repairs were done on the sprinkler system and the dehumidifier turned on, it was time to run the Ice King and sweep the ice before one last flood.

Also during the overnight "Fire Watch," before the sprinklers were fixed, a few of the ladies decided to chip in, donate and build an IKEA ladies locker room to pass their shift from midnight to 6am.  Turned out pretty good for some sleep deprived gals. We even followed the picture instructions with no extra parts (well that were needed). :) Just a few pictures of our ice to hang (from the blog, actually)!

So we can finally draw a line in the sand and say, "THANK YOU, WAYNE!!!" who has been our construction manager spending every night and weekend for the last 4 months to direct the 100 hard working volunteers to take a big blank warehouse and turn it into a four sheet curling club that we like to call "Deadicated in the Desert."

But it's finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Original Drawing)

(Reality)

"The ice is really there!"

(Original Drawing)

(Reality)

The first rock has been thrown...

And we will open this weekend!

So stayed tuned for Learn To Curls (there is one this Sunday!), League Play will start next week and we will start working on our "industrial" decor in the warm room (right now it's still drywalled with primer).  And we hope to see all of you out on the ice soon.  Good Curling!