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Ring Around the Classroom
Walt and his handy helpers finished blocking up the walls for the new classrooms at the International Bible Church. Below you can see them setting up the forms for the ring beam and the corner posts. What you can't see is the steel re-bar inside the forms which helps tie all the walls together into a solid structure. The poured the beams on Thursday as I recall. After our monthly Saturday -
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Youth Sunday
January 29 was a fifth Sunday of the month, which made it Youth Sunday. The young people plan and lead the service and I always enjoy it. Attendance is increasing in 2012. There are lots of "snow birds" here right now, and more and more local people are finding their way through our doors as well. There was a nice breeze blowing through the hall this past Sunday. Early birds pick seats by -
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IBC Classrooms
The classrooms on the West side of the main auditorium are starting to take shape. That's the new Maduro bank office building in the background. The concrete pads at eacn end of the building are making it much easier to move stuff in and out of the building. Most of the work is being done by volunteers, and materials are purchased as funds are donated. -
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TWR Workshop
Colin and Lorna Buckland have been conducting a creative problem solving workshop for us at TWR each morning this week. They are also doing team building concepts training in the afternoons. This is the Buckland's fourth time with us. We have a great time and somehow learn a lot too. Colin and Lorna are at the left. Then Donna is pretty much hidden behind Colin. Bob Lassiter is in the -
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Floored
Walt, Epi and the team poured the floor for the new classrooms at the International Bible Church last week. They added a little to floor of the youth pavilion too. They left the surface with a rough texture so that the tiles will have something to stick to, when that time comes. -
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Food Facts
A friend who is planning a visit to Bonaire this year asked me how much it might cost them for a week's worth of food, if they were to prepare their meals in their condo's kitchen. So I made some relatively random notes while Sandra and I were shopping last Saturday. Maybe you have the same question in your mind, so I'll copy and paste the info. here as well. 1/4 wheel of Gouda cheese $10.27 -
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IBC is Growing
Actually, in this case, it is the church building that is growing. Now that we've been using the new building for six months or so, we're moving ahead with phase two of the project, which is class rooms on the west side of the building. As additional funds come in, we'll build some more; a very traditional way of doing construction here on Bonaire. Pouring the slabs by the doors at each end -
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35th Anniversary
Brad recently celebrated 35 years with Trans World Radio. Had some carrot cake (yum) and pastechi with our co-workers.In the picture, Sandra and I are studying a document that Brandon made up highlighting some of the changes/advances that have come about while we've been here on Bonaire. -
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More New Spanish Language Programs
I must apologize, in advance, for the crazy proliferation of fonts and type styles contained in this post. I hope you don't find it as annoying as I do. But I don't have the energy to try to fix it, given the idiosyncrasies of the Blogger interface. Actually they have a new improved user interface, maybe I should give it a try...There is increasing interest in our nighttime Spanish language -
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Happy New Year
Best wishes for the new year. Bonaire greets the new year with cooler weather (79F at 5:30 this afternoon) and lots of fireworks. It is not a good time for dogs or other creatures with sensitive hearing.Our TWR co-workers and down the street neighbors, the Veldmans, had an open house this afternoon. Dick was in mass production mode making oliebollen, yum! -
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The Incredible Disappearing Books
Sandra and I are both active readers, so we were suitably thrilled earlier this year when two of the Stateside library systems that we visit when we are in the States began lending Kindle e-books online. The new and popular books in their inventories have long waiting lists, but we can always find something we'd like to read when we do an online search... until tonight that is.There must be a -
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Orion over the Office
I've been waiting for quite a while to get a chance to capture Orion rising over the TWR office building. the skies cleared up this week, so I did some imaging three nights in a row. I tried all sorts of combinations of exposures and settings. It turns out that there is too much ambient light to use the type of settings I use at the slave huts. I'll just have to hope for an island wide -
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Second Coolest Web Site Ever
Hmmm, maybe it's actually the third coolest Web site... not counting commercial sites like eBay and Amazon...I guess Google would be the most useful to me, then Google Earth; but if I lump those together, then the Photopic Sky Survey site could still rank as number two.I thought I had mentioned this site back last July, when Chris Bogart first told me about it. I just checked and it appears -
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Bonaire Panoramas II
I mentioned the Bonaire Panoramas web site back in March. Lo and Behold, it turns out that one of the panoramas was shot right in front of the TWR office building. Check it out! -
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Cool Time Lapse video of Comet
January is just around the corner and hopefully we'll get some super clear skies here on Bonaire, so I can try some more landscape astrophotos and time lapse astro videos. I've just finished building a super neat, low tech, tracking drive from a Stanley hinge and a few screws and nuts, as described in the Aug. 2010 issue of Sky and Telescope. I tried it out last night and it seems to work. ( -
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IBC update
We had a dress rehersal for the Christmas Eve. service Wed. night. The actual service is at 8pm on Saturday. If you are on the island, we'd love to see you there.We've been enjoying the new International Church building for a half a year or so. Now we've just started adding on some classrooms to the north side of the auditorium. You can see the foundation for the classrooms in the above -
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Christmas Party
Our newly augmented TWR Bonaire staff had a Christmas get together Tuesday night at the Plaza beach barbeque.Amado and Sue, and Walt and Lynne were also invited in recognition of the valuable help they've provided to us during this transition year. Amado can be seen in the foreground in the top image. Sandra and Lynne are pictured above. In the background you can see the steel band setting up -
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Happy Anniversary
Amado and Sue Felix just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Pictured here with them is Wai-Man Chan from the China Nobo restaurant. Congratulations Amado and Sue. -
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TWR Listeners in Cuba
A couple of our co-workers recently drove all over Cuba and visited many of the faithful and enthusiastic listeners to our Bonaire radio programming. TWR has posted some clips and images from this trip on YouTube and you can see them here.
