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Portals of Welcome to be completed next week

posted 09/01/2006
The finishing touches on the house posts at Fairweather Park are tentatively set to take place Sept. 6. Ravenhill Construction is coordinating the completion of the houseposts. Two bronze plaques, one for the donors names and one for interpretive information will be added. Backs will be added to the posts.

EDC, which donated the crane work for the original placement of the posts, will be lifting the backs into place.

Margaret Bell and Conrad Berthold donated the cedar log used for the backs of the posts. The log came from their property on Boundary Point Road. Tom McMahon donated the felling of the log and Pete Kilpatrick from Ravenhill was standing by to strip the bark off. Bill Moss at Egg Lake shake donated the transportation of the log to his property to dry for over a year. Kwaguilth artists Tom Hunt and Greg Henderson came down from Campbell River to adze the backs, a back-breaking job which took a couple days.

Portals of Welcome installed

Story and photos by Sharon Kivisto

posted 05/22/04
Two 17-foot tall house posts and one cross beam were installed Friday afternoon (May 21, 2004) in Fairweather Park at the Port of Friday Harbor. The artwork, Portals of Welcome by Coast Salish artist Susan Point, will be dedicated in a ceremony scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday, May 23.

Paul Herbert of EDC Crane Inc. lifted the three carved cedar pieces into position with a crane. Peter Kilpatrick and his crew from Ravenhill Construction manuevered the posts into place and bolted them onto metal posts. The metal posts were mounted in concrete. A slight adjustment was made in the top of one post before the cross piece was lowered into place.

Chris Wisniewski crawled on top of the cross piece to unhook the crane. Other Ravenhill employees working on the installation included Lloyd Thompsen, T.J. Wilkinson and Joe Cooper. Also helping were Jeremy Sandhall and Gary Roberts.

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