Rotary Clubs Clear the Air at Local Carpentry School
Posted on Nov 07, 2016
The Chapala Sunrise Rotary Club (CSRC) has teamed up with the Fountain Hills, Arizona Rotary Club to help build a safer workplace at a local carpentry school. Recently, representatives from the CSRC presented a check for 78,000 pesos to the Have Hammer Will Travel Carpentry shop and school just east of Ajijic.
The donation is to support the purchase and installation of a new state-of-the-art vacuum air filtration system at the facility, which trains disadvantaged teens in carpentry and furniture-making skills. In most carpentry shops, fine wood dust from the work gets into the air and on surfaces, causing serious air quality and related respiratory problems as well as an increased risk of fire. The new system filters this dust out of the air, creating a much safer and healthier workplace. The new system is now up and running.
The presentation of the Rotary check to Have Hammer, Left to right: John Gonzales (CSRC) Miguel Angel (Have Hammer volunteer), Kelly Wilson (Have Hammer volunteer), Lalo Robledo (instructor), Frank Ewer (Have Hammer volunteer), Eloy Gonzales (volunteer instructor), Bill Wilson (President-Elect, CSRC) and Sandra Loridans (CSRC Administrator)