Wit Ventures: New Carriage House Taking Shape at Children's Animal Farm, Sarnia.

Wednesday 8 February 2017

New Carriage House Taking Shape at Children's Animal Farm, Sarnia.

A hum of activity. Photo by Zach Neal.

Roof trusses went up Monday on a new carriage house being built at the Children's Animal Farm in Sarnia's Canatara Park.

Apprentices with Carpenters Union Local 1256 were at work in the park Monday morning as a crane lifted trusses in place on the $100,000 project to replace the carriage house originally built in 1938, and moved to the city park in the 1970s.

“We've had so much community support, and volunteers,” Donna Kelso, president of the Seaway Kiwanis Club, said Monday while watching the work.

“It's ahead of schedule and under budget.”

The project is a collaboration between the Seaway Kiwanis Club, Local 1256 and Lambton College, where the apprentices receive training.

“This is exciting watching this, the big equipment at work,” Kelso said.

The Judith and Norman Alix Foundation contributed $50,000 to the project, with the service club raising the rest of the money at its weekly TV bingo.

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