On December 7,2005, a container was loaded at the Bartholomew’s in Spokane and began its trip to Guatemala. The expected transit time was 3 weeks but it took six. There were “paperwork” issues between the home office of the shipping company and the Guatemala terminal. After days of negotiation, many faxes back and forth and the payment of some “adjustments,” the container was released from the port and delivered. All cargo was intact.

Lynn Bartholomew and volunteers from Spokane immediately began to work erecting the steel reservoir forms on one of the two concrete pads which they had prepared. After 2 days of hard work, the (more…)