In the spring of 2007, at Interfor’s annual general meeting in Vancouver, Duncan Davies, president of Interfor, announced plans to spend $100 million on a new state-of-the-art sawmill with specific design features to accommodate pine beetle-killed wood. Lodgepole pine and the mountain pine beetle have always co-existed as a natural part of the ecosystem in British Columbia’s interior forests. But the combination of an increased abundance of mature lodgepole pine within the province, along with several consecu- tive mild winters and drought-like summers, has resulted in an increase in the beetles’ populations, which have reached epidemic levels. The Ministry of Forests and Range estimates that as of 2008 the cumulative area of Provincial Crown forest affected by the pine beetle was about 14.5 million hectares, an area more than four times the size of Vancouver Island. Although the beetle-affected wood may contain some staining, it still retains wood’s natural structural properties, and can be used for anything from standard framing lumber to value-added wood products. As such, in some areas, annual allowable cuts have been increased as an emergency measure for salvaging or recovering the greatest value possible from beetle-attacked lumber.

The new mill would be built at Interfor’s existing site in Adams Lake, B.C., centrally located close to large tracts of infested trees, and home to the then-current operating mill. “The new mill at Adams Lake is specifically designed to address the challenge of timber killed by the mountain pine beetle,” Davies advised. “There has been a whole series of considerations built into the design of this new facility to facilitate the processing of small wood and pine-beetle-impacted wood.” Interfor’s Chairman, Bill Sauder, agreed: “We did a tremendous amount of research to see that we are doing the right thing before we moved on it.” The existing sawmill is scheduled to close permanently once the new Adams Lake sawmill is completed this year.

By spring of 2008, with the construction of the foundations for the new mill underway, Interfor awarded the contract to Colony to supply and install the steel building structure for the new mill in April that same year. The building itself was a very complicated structure, and challenging design-wise, where nothing was standard in any way. “The complete project had very few similar parts or components. Each frame line had a different bay length dimension and varying load capacities. The complete building was built onto a conventional steel floor and had multiple varying column elevations,” advised Shawn Lochbaum, vice president of business development for Colony. “On top of all of this, we had to work in an extremely confined space on-site, with a lot of co-ordination with other trades and equipment suppliers and installers for access, as well as working over most of the equipment already installed,” Shawn continued, “quite a logistical challenge really.” Ches Piercy, project manager for Interfor agreed: “We were actually snaking right in amongst the existing structure so it’s a very crowded project; it was very congested. Half of the project is actually locked up on three sides by existing facilities, so it was very hard to do, hard to manage, very tight, and hard to work.” But these anticipated difficulties were, unfortunately, soon added to by some unanticipated ones.

Brian Miller, project administration manager for Behlen Industries, the supplier of the building components, explains, “when we did get this order (Adams Lake), there were numerous other fairly large orders that also came in right around the same time, and of course everybody wanted their deliveries about the same time. It was unusual to get that many large orders all at once, and it really put a stress on our engineering group to get things going, as well as the project management group to get everything together for engineering, to be sure they had all the information they required.” “The other thing we were faced with,” adds Pat Versavel, Behlen’s vice president of operations, “was other clients placing orders (with Behlen) in February that actually didn’t get started until May or June, due to lack of final information.” How could this all just happen? Brian explains further, “I think that it had something to do with the steel prices. They were increasing dramatically in the spring and I think everybody wanted to beat any further increases.” The inevitable result of all of this was that building deliveries were extended beyond the required schedule dates, in some cases for weeks. All of this was a tragic blow to the project and the Interfor construction group.

“To be frank, it was a disappointment the way it started out,” spoke Jim Davis firmly, general manager for Interfor Pacific and the lead individual on the project. “They took on more work than they could handle and couldn’t deliver the building on time. I think their engineers were overwhelmed with parts of the project and that slowed them down as well.”

“The deliveries caused us grief to get going,” added Ches Piercy. “It was just slow off the mark, and unfortunate. Behlen was behind the eight ball and the Colony folks went out (to Behlen’s Brandon, Manitoba plant) to see them, and said “what are you doing?” “We had record bookings for that period of time,” confirmed Behlen’s Pat Versavel. “I think we did everything we could; we went to an outside detailing service and we looked at some other software packages to try and help.”

It became increasingly obvious to Colony that if any time was to be made up in the schedule, it would have to be done in the field, and that was going to be very difficult to achieve, considering the site conditions talked about earlier. “You’re under the gun to perform and you’re the guys on-site, so you take all the heat,” Ches Piercy explained, “but you know, if you don’t have the steel to put up, it’s pretty hard, right?” Adding to the difficulty was the fact that quali- fied labour resources, at the time, were also overbooked and in extremely limited supply. “Colony was able to locate and provide an additional, completely separate erecting company that was added to the mix to work on the building roof and wall cladding,” advised John Grime, Colony’s project manager. “This allowed the original erector we had to concentrate his complete efforts towards getting the structural steel in place.” The schedule was finally showing promise of being able to catch up, but the complexity of the project, the limited workspace and the demands of an expedited schedule inevitably proved too much for the original erector to complete. John Grime explained that “we were in a tight spot; Colony was obligated to meet the schedule and it became painfully obvious to us that we were not going to be able to accomplish this with the original erector.” Colony then brought in a third erecting company to replace the first one and the new company, which had access to more resources, and this started things moving right away. “We were able to come to an amicable arrangement with the first erector, keeping in mind our commitment to the owner as well as the schedule,” advised John. “The arrangement facilitated the inclusion of the original erector, as well as some of his equipment, and with the co-operation of everyone involved, we were finally able to get the project back on track and completed within the scheduled time.”

Behlen also stepped up to help as well, where and when they could. “Behlen is committed to the success of our builders and we didn’t take the situation lightly.” added Pat Versavel. “You go out and seek the solution and it takes time. Working with Colony and the extra resources that Colony had put on the project we ultimately got the project back into a reasonable time frame.”

“I think Colony, John Grime, and the crew made a serious effort to get things back on track,” Jim Davis further advised. “I think the guys were behind from the start and that didn’t help matters, but I think Colony have made a serious attempt to remedy any of the situations as they’ve come along, and not just giving it lip service.” Ches agreed, “John has been a great guy to work with-he’s been very professional about it. Colony had to work closely with the erector onsite to get the schedule tightened up, and John did that, and went the extra mile, so that was good!” But from Colony’s perspective, there was much more than that. “This could have been a disaster waiting to happen if it had not been for the leadership and pro-active stance adopted by the Interfor Construction Team.” spoke John Grime. “Their efforts in coordinating all this activity and pulling it all together, not only with professionalism, but with consideration to the schedule and a high regard to the safety and welfare of all involved, were exemplary.”

Interfor is one of North America’s leading wood products companies. Interfor, Interfor Pacific, and Adams Lake brands are renowned for their quality in markets in the US and around the world. More information on Interfor is available on their website at www.Interfor.com.

Endnote:

Ches Piercy is an independent contractor, who worked on behalf of Interfor, providing management and consulting services. Ches can be reached at:

ches piercy consulting limited
591 nassau crescent
qualicum beach, bc v9k 1c6
T: (250) 752-8508

WOW, what a HUGE success the relay was again this year.
Many thanks to all that helped contribute to making the Canadian Cancer Society’s North Shore Relay For Life event such a success.
Harley’s Angels once again exceeded their fundraising goal by collecting over $6400 for the Canadian Cancer Society. The weather was in our favour this year, and we had an outstanding team yet again.

This year Harley’s Angels also welcomed a new addition to the team, Minkee the pug. Minkee raised $117 by dancing and selling kisses for a donation.

Many thanks to George Godfrey at Fleming Decal for whipping up the team banner at a moments notice. “Thank you George”
THANK YOU again everyone for your gracious support.

The first phase of Dockside Green, featured in the spring edition of the Colony Newsletter under “That’s A Metal Building???”, has achieved LEED “PLATINUM” certification from the Canada Green Building Council. In fact, the project amassed sixty-three points out of a possible seventy, reportedly the highest scoring LEED “PLATINUM” project for new construction in the world. The project is one of a handful in Canada to achieve this outstanding designation and the first master-planned development to target this level of certification. The project’s first phase achieved the maximum available score in several LEED categories including energy, water efficiency, atmosphere, indoor environmental quality and innovation.

A key sustainable feature of the “PLATINUM” designation is the community-wide integrated energy system that includes heating and hot water produced from renewable biomass energy, created and supplied by Nexterra Energy Corporation of Vancouver, and housed inside the architecturally featured building provided by Colony.

“We’re proud to be a part of Dockside Green achieving this recognition,” spoke an exuberant Raymond McAllister, Nexterra’s Director of Communications. “Dockside is a tremendous showcase for our gasification technology, which is one of the key features that has helped them accomplish the LEED ‘PLATINUM’ designation.”

Nexterra’s biomass energy system uses waste wood as fuel through a gasification process. Gasification is a thermo-chemical process that uses heat to convert any carbon-containing fuel into clean-burning gas commonly referred to as Syngas. Gasification differs from combustion because it uses just twenty to thirty percent of the air or oxygen needed for complete combustion. Syngas is composed primarily of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane, and is a clean-burning fuel that can be used as a substitute for natural gas, fuel oil, or propane to produce process steam, heat, hot water, and/or electricity.

As Joe Van Belleghem, visionary co-developer of Dockside Green, said last spring when the biomass project was announced, “Nexterra’s gasification system is perfect for an urban environment. It’s a proven, simple, ultra-clean technology that sets a new standard for converting biomass into useful heat energy.”

Nexterra has nearly completed the gasification system at Dockside, and construction of the Colony building that will house the technology is currently underway.

The multi-million dollar Dockside Green project, located in the Inner Harbour, is the largest re-development of City land in Victoria’s history. It will eventually include a total of twenty-six buildings incorporating low- and high-rise residential space, light industrial, office, commercial, and retail development. All of us here at Colony are proud to have been a part of this project, and along with Nexterra, congratulate Dockside Green on this amazing achievement.

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Photo Credit: Cascade Aerospace and F22 Photography

Cascade Aerospace Inc. began as a vision to build a world-class aircraft repair facility. The dream that inspired that vision began with Barry Marsden, a Cascade co-founder who, starting with a pilot’s license at age 17, embarked on a lifelong relationship with the illustrious flying machines. Barry’s love of flying led him to co-found Conair Group, a specialty aviation services firm, in 1969. The initial focus of Conair was aerial forest fire control, and the knowledge gained in the development of specialty aviation products to serve this industry, along with the experience of operating and maintaining a fleet of 90 aircraft, provided Conair with the expertise needed to successfully offer third-party maintenance and modifications of aircraft to others. By 1993, Barry envisioned a new enterprise, one dedicated specifically to providing third-party aircraft maintenance. This vision became a reality when Conair moved into a new, state-of-the-art, 250,000-square-foot facility in December of 2000. In the spring of 2001, the third-party maintenance division of Conair became a separate company with a new name: Cascade Aerospace.

Hit rewind, back to the fall of 1999, at the Colony office in Vancouver, B.C. David Thompson, Shawn Lochbaum, and Jim Peacey are preparing for a meeting with the Conair Group, including Barry Marsden and their representatives, to discuss Colony’s proposal to supply and install a Behlen steel building for a new Aircraft Maintenance Facility at the Abbotsford Airport. The project is a challenging one-not only has the competition been strong, but the building itself and its requirements presented their own demands. The overall structure was 460 feet wide, consisting of two 220-foot clear span sections divided by a 20-foot multiple-floor tower that housed numerous heavy mechanical units and various pieces of related equipment. The large 220-foot span rafters also needed to support the loads from suspended cranes, smoke curtains, and a multitude of specialized equipment. The building end wall facing the runway was to house two very large custom fabric Mega Doors, each 210-feet wide and 77-feet tall at their highest point, to allow the passage of a Boeing 757. Supply and installation of the custom doors was also to form a part of the final contract. The building was designed to simultaneously fit eight Boeing 737 aircraft for major overhauling. Then there was the schedule: this monstrous undertaking had to be up and running by the end of the following year. Fortunately, for all involved, the proposal was accepted and Colony went on to successfully complete what has come to be known as the centerpiece of the Abbotsford Airport, the Cascade Aerospace Heavy Maintenance and Modification Hangar.

Fast forward to now, the present. In May of this year, one of Canada’s premier airlines, Westjet, had contracted Cascade Aerospace Inc. as a heavy maintenance provider, as Westjet’s Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) aircraft fleet comes due for their “six-year heavy check.” Bret Burnside, Senior Vice President of Technical Operations for Cascade Aerospace, explained, “We currently run just about a million hours a year through the facility; we’ll do everything from a light check which could be four hundred to five hundred hours up to checks as large as one hundred and five thousand hours on an individual aircraft. A check on an aircraft could be anything from checking the oil and the air in the tires to a total disassembly, taking the wings off, the tail off, taking all of the interior components and pieces out, taking the engines off of the aircraft, the landing gear etc., and do inspections on everything, fix any discrepancies found, and then completely re-assemble the aircraft and deliver it back to the customer.” Westjet is Canada’s leading high-value low-fare airline offering scheduled service to 47 destinations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, as well as the Caribbean, with a current fleet of 75 Boeing 737 NG aircraft. “We had a number of reasons why we eyed Cascade Aerospace for our maintenance provider, and one of those reasons, of course, is the building and its infrastructure,” commented Dave Robertson, Westjet’s Manager of Heavy Maintenance. “It’s a purpose built facility, specially designed for what we need our maintenance provider to do for us.”

Dave has a unique perspective on the building, as he worked for Conair when the building was first being built. “I was over at Conair watching it go up from across the field. I’m in kind of a unique position because I’ve had a lot of history with Cascade, because of my position there originally and now with my position with Westjet.” When asked further about the building, Dave added, “It’s one of the most advanced buildings that we’ve seen anywhere in our travels around.” Mike Pastro, the Abbotsford Airport General Manager, was just as enthusiastic. “It’s very impressive to look out my window and see that massive hangar with Mount Baker in the background. I’ve had the privilege of being in the building on a number of occasions and it is a remarkable facility; you’re in awe when you go inside and see just how big it really is.” Mike was also very complimentary in regards to Cascade Aerospace. “They are a very good corporate citizen and one of the biggest and best employers in the area in terms of hiring skilled technicians. We have a good working relationship with Cascade, and we are very pleased that they are here at the Abbotsford Airport.”

Bret offered further input about the building. “It’s working very, very well. Everybody is generally very impressed; it’s very nice and very well put together. Our customers are very happy to come and work out of a nice new facility.” That’s an interesting comment considering that the building is almost 10 years old. Mike Pastro concurred-”It helps to put the Abbotsford Airport on the map because it is a world-class facility. It’s recognized around North America and abroad as a first-rate aircraft maintenance facility, and that contributes to the Airport’s overall credibility.”

The dream continues. According to Bret, Cascade Aviation is looking ahead to the future. “We’re a full service AMO (Approved Maintenance Organization) and we employ over 700 people out here and a million plus hours a year, at this point, and that’s pretty much at capacity. We’re expanding our business into the US and different parts of Canada as well. We also have an operation branch that we run for the French Government, and our sister company, Conair Aerospace, owns and operates fifty-five aerial firefighter aircraft.” We thank you Bret, Dave, and Mike, as well as all of the others who contributed, for your comments as well as your candor. And Bret, if you need us once again down the road, hey, we’ll be there!

Both Blackcomb and Whistler terminals will feature partial walls of Rodeca panel, a highly impact-resistant material, and an insulating, polycarbonate glazing system that allows the display of the featured structural steel to be visible from outside both terminals, while at the same time allowing natural light to flood the inside of both buildings, treating skiers and visitors alike to the complete “mountain-top experience” for which Whistler Blackcomb is famous. “Colony’s ability to step in and handle the Rodeca panel installation is of real assistance to us,” added John Morley. “We really wanted to use the Rodeca, but we did not have anyone to install it, so we appreciate Jim and the team stepping up to the plate on that.”

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If, like me, you have had any historic experience of doing work in Western Canada, there’s a very good chance that you have spent at least some time inside a de Havilland aircraft, in particular, the famed “Beaver” or the just as famous “Otter”. Whether on floats, skis or wheels, these aircraft, well known for their ruggedness, versatility and reliability, have been responsible for safely transporting people and cargo in and out of rugged, remote locations since 1948. I myself, have spent innumerable hours inside many of these flying workhorses, wings pitched against the wind and the needle-sharp rain, the comforting drone of the engine assuring me, “don’t worry, we’ll get there”. Despite its unfortunate demise, de Havilland Canada has left a legacy of innovative and unique aerospace designs and its products are still flying in considerable numbers worldwide; a testament to the durability and integrity of these same amazing designs and products. The end of de Havilland Canada was definably a true loss for Canadians, as the company had been a large part of our aviation history. Fortunately, there is something currently going on in Western Canada which promises a brighter light on Canada’s Aerospace horizon.

After the certificates changed hands over the subsequent years, on February 24, 2006 Viking Air Ltd. of Victoria, BC purchased the type certificates from Bombardier Aerospace for all the original de Havilland heritage aircraft including the Chipmunk, Beaver, Otter, Twin Otter, Caribou, Buffalo as well as the Dash 7. For Viking, accepting the legacy of the de Havilland type certificates was a dream that took 25 years to come to fruition. To complete the dream, Viking Air made a commitment to develop and build a new facility in Victoria to accommodate, as well as service the needs and requirements of their many and varied clientele. “For years we have identified the fact that we needed new facilities, not only from a manufacturing prospective, but also our aircraft maintenance business” advised David Curtis, President and CEO of Viking Air Limited. “But our business was changing and we couldn’t decide on the type of facility”. David explained further, “We are becoming more of an Aerospace Manufacturing company, so that’s what finally drove us to say, okay, this is the kind of building we need, with flexible space both in height and floor space, you know, no columns, that kind of thing!” The building David is referring to is Colony’s “frameless” style building, the Behlen Corr-Span product. The Corr-Span building is essentially a building with no frame, the completed structure provides an economical and efficient means of clear spanning long distances. The advantage to Viking Air is the ability to place or relocate equipment anywhere inside the building without the limitations imposed by posts or columns. The flexibility of the structure also allows for door or opening placements virtually anywhere in the wall, as there are no interferences with the columns or braced bays so typical of other forms of steel construction.

Brian Inness, Partner, Vic Davies Architect, the Architect’s for the project, agreed with David on the clean interior space. “The biggest advantage is, we do not have any visible structure that we needed to plan or work around” added Brian. “So that has made for a more flexible interior plan and layout options for Viking. When you compare this building to the more typical pre-engineered buildings, with the large main frames that you have to work around, there are no encroachments into the floor space, so it has worked out very well. What’s been built so far is looking good, and I think Viking is going to be very pleased with the space” Brian commented further “a good choice for this type of use.” John Morrison, Vice-President of Finance for Viking Air Limited and a key player in the development of the project, also concurs, “The thing that interested us the most was the clear-span structure and the simplicity of the building. It’s been quite seamless, very quick, or at least prospectively quick, and things are moving along at a good clip.” John continued, “We went through the iterations of whether it should be the Corr-Span product as opposed to a typical Pre-Eng product, so we looked at the two and came to the collective decision that the Corr-Span product would work. Part of the challenge was the size of the facility, it’s a big ass building.” We couldn’t agree more John!

Clear spanning 205 feet and providing 30 feet of clear height without any visible framing, the inside of the structure currently being constructed appears cavernous. Providing such a large clear-span structure often places immense structural demands on the foundations for the building, making them complicated and expensive. The inherent ability of the Corr-Span product to evenly distribute these loads, uniformly, often provides clients like Viking Air with additional cost savings in the foundations and footing design. “The Corr-Span product suited the site conditions the best, in terms of a light weight building, because geo-technically, I do not believe the soil could have withstood a heavy rigid frame building” noted Mark Van Ek, President of Venture Pacific Construction Management, the company acting as Construction Managers for the project. In addition to this, Mark was very pleased with Scott Robinson, Colony’s Project Manager, “Scott is very much on top of everything and I’m really impressed with how he operates his follow-up. He is just a general all around good guy and good at what he does.”

Viking Air Limited, located at the Victoria International Airport, British Columbia, is a first tier original equipment manufacturer specializing in de Havilland aircraft products. Viking brings the collective experience of over 250 employees and 35 years of experience to support de Havilland Canada customers around the world. “We are deep into the project of restarting an aircraft production line; we’ve sold almost 40 aircraft, which will carry us through 2011 from a production perspective” stated David Curtis. “We are going to build a facility that’s more suited to what we need, what our business is.”

For Viking Air, accepting the legacy de Havilland type certificates brings with it tremendous promise, opportunity and responsibility for both the Company as well as the operators, owners and prospective owners of de Havilland products. Colony is very proud to have been associated with Viking Air and to have played a small role in the development of what may very well end up being, history re-written.

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FOOTNOTE
Venture Pacific are a Construction Management company, based in Langley, B.C. Mark Van Ek is the President and founder of the company and brings with him twenty years of history in the construction industry. It has been Colony’s experience, that under Mark’s directive, this project has been extremely well organized, planned and well thought out. We have found Venture Pacific to be very professional, extremely well run and efficient, so much so that we felt compelled to add this footnote to the article. You can contact Mark and Venture Pacific at www.venturepacific.ca

MEG Energy Corp. (MEG) is a private corporation based in Calgary, Alberta focused solely on oil sands development in the southern Athabasca oil sands region. MEG owns a 100% working interest in over 700 square miles of oil sands leases, with its principal asset being 80 contiguous square miles in the Christina Lake area of Alberta, which form the basis of MEG’S Christina Lake Regional Project. The project is located centrally among the main “in situ” oil sands developments, and is estimated to contain over six billion barrels of bitumen in place. Naturally occurring crude bitumen is the prime feed stock for petroleum production from tar sands. Due mainly to oil price increases, upgrading bitumen to synthetic crude oil has become highly profitable. Crude bitumen, however, is a sticky, tar-like form so thick and heavy that it must be heated or diluted before it will flow. MEG had an answer in lieu of the typical open pit means of collecting the bitumen: Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage, otherwise known as SAGD.

SAGD involves drilling pairs of horizontal wells at a depth of about 350 meters below the surface. The upper well is the steam-injection well and the lower well, approximately five meters below, is the bitumen-production well. Steam is produced from collected non-potable underground water, and is continuously injected through the upper well bores, creating steam chambers that heat the bitumen formations. The heated bitumen, under the influence of gravity, then drains to the lower wells and is produced to the surface. The wells are drilled from common surface pads minimizing land disturbance. No surface water is used, and 90% of the water used is recycled, resulting in low environmental impacts. Further to this, where practical, all produced gases are collected to reduce emissions and to be reused for steam generation. The SAGD process allowed the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board to increase its proven oil reserves to 179 billion barrels, which raised Canada’s oil reserves to the second highest in the world after Saudi Arabia, and approximately quadrupled North American Oil Reserves.

With the myriad of technical equipment and expertise required to successfully design and build an operating and functioning system for such a project, a clear and concise understanding of how every component functioned was needed to determine exactly how the structure could be economically designed and built around this very same equipment. Colony’s Shawn Lochbaum was up for the task.

“Shawn applied a solution-based approach to problem solving,” spoke Heather Cody, Worley Parsons MEG’s Contracts Administrator for the project. “I think Colony’s contribution to the project, in terms of advice, or whatever else, was useful and certainly appropriate,” confirmed Bruce McCarty, Construction Manager Growth Projects for MEG Energy. “Shawn was always very accommodating,” Heather continued, “he responded very quickly to any requests for clarification, whether the issue at hand was commercial or technical.”

This project is groundbreaking in its ability to produce the oil we all need at a reasonable cost, while working in contiguous harmony with environmental needs and issues. We applaud MEG Energy for their innovative and forward-thinking methods. When you consider that Canada contains most of the world’s supply of natural bitumen, you can understand how development of methods that can tap that resource with very little impact to the environment are so important to our country, our economy, and our people.

Living in a first-world country our whole life, we can become blind to the struggles of third-world countries. The battle to get from one day to the next is something most of us have never experienced. While we complain about the smallest problems, people in other places are fighting for their lives. Although there are many innocent people affected by AIDS, our attention has been caught by the children left without parents and, in some cases, forced to become soldiers. My wife, Sarah, has long had a vision to help in Africa, but only recently has this become our vision together. Through a friend we were introduced to Watoto Child Care Ministries and immediately knew this was our calling.

Over the past several months, what was once Sarah’s vision has become our reality. In October, we will be travelling to Kampala, Uganda to work with Watoto at one of their orphan villages.

Watoto is a church-based organization that cares for AIDS victims, war orphans, and widows. The Watoto goal is to raise the next generation of Ugandan leaders. This is accomplished by placing these children in families where unconditional love, spiritual discipleship, care, nurture, and the meeting of their physical needs take place.

This mission will be the construction of a classroom. Our team will work together with local Ugandan workers to accomplish this project.

If Uganda’s orphaned children touch your heart, and you want to help in some way, we welcome donations. As a registered charity, Watoto Canada will provide a tax receipt. The cost of the classroom alone is $17,000, which is over and above the cost of transportation.

Thank you for your support.

Scott and Sarah Robinson

All of us at Colony would like to thank Scott and Sarah for sharing with us, and we wish them good fortune on their endeavors to make the world a better place, one child at a time. If you have any interest or would just like more information, you can contact Watoto at www.watoto.com or Scott at srobinson@colonybuildings.com.