Students in the Fall River YouthBuild program participated in a Day of Service activity in celebration of Martin Luther King Day by completing the refurbishing work they had started several weeks earlier on two rooms at the Bank Street Armory. Students hung a new drop ceiling and light fixtures for a room that will soon become a kitchen and completed the installation of new flooring in the second floor VFW room. "These kids did an outstanding job on these two projects," commented YouthBuild instructor Ira Joseph. The completion of the two rooms will make the space in the building more usable by students and outside community groups. YouthBuild is a ten-month construction skills training curriculum for men and women ages 17-24 who have not completed high school run by the Old Colony YMCA  For more information, contact Director Terry Moran at 508-678-1975.
 

(Top row, left) Liz Smith works on assembling some of the drop ceiling rails that will be installed in the new kitchen area. (Top row, center) YouthBuild instructors Ken Ramos and Ira Joseph pause on the stairway. (Top row, right) Students Tiara lake and Liz Smith talk with Jay Almas during the ceiling assembly. (Middle row, left and right) YouthBuild students who completed the installation of new flooring in the VFW room on the second floor pause for group photos. (Bottom row) Student Derick Rodrigues works with YouthBuild instructor Harold Denfeld on the installation of lighting fixtures in the new kitchen area.