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 Ray “Pudge” McVay, David Allen, and Adam Allen on scaffolding in the West Brooksville Congregational Church. View the gallery of photos  The scraped “tin” cornice of the ceiling in the balcony area of the West Brooksville Congregational Church, UCC, prepared for primer coat. The dark “accents” are reminders of the 1982 fire. Local painters are scraping and painting the ceiling of the 157-year-old West Brooksville Congregational Church, UCC. Ray “Pudge” McVay and his crew, Adam and David Allen, have erected scaffolding atop the pews, and have been generating a snowstorm of old paint chips as they scrape the loose coating from the church’s original stamped “tin” ceiling. They will then apply a primer, followed by the white finish coat. According to a press release, this is the first ceiling painting since 1982, when a furnace fire blackened the inside of the church, requiring the sustained efforts of many community volunteers to wash the ceiling and walls, repair the damage, and restore the building to use. The Jolly Helpers of the West Brooksville Church, a church-aid group headed originally by Traci Astbury and more recently by Judy Lebel, has worked for several years to raise the money for this project, while at the same time accomplishing community service projects in the Brooksville area. The Helper’s luncheons are a local favorite, the release says, for their “variety and quality of offerings, and for their provision of a take-out option.” Other JH members contributing to the effort are Althea Black, Katherine Clifford, Pat Farr, Diane Harmon, Joyce Leck, Audrey Peasley and Priscilla Tandy. |
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