Support Friends of Brownsville School's Mission
Raise the Roof Yard Sale A Success!
Wonderful news—the yard sale raised $2,300! Added to donations from FBS and URSCC members, we have secured funding for this project! Brownsville will receive a new roof in June. Hearty thanks to everyone who provided, prepared, and purchased items and to those who staffed the sale!
Brownsville Receives Christmas Gifts
Huizenga Family Foundation Award
The Huizenga Family Foundation in Niles, MI awarded URSCC $10,000 for Brownsville preservation work. This gift coupled with gifts from many individuals, has enabled URSCC to begin work on the foundation. Despite winter weather setting in, Gene Deubner and his Quality Masonry crew have installed frost fittings and set jack posts to secure the building until the next phase of foundation stabilization commences in the spring. When weather permits, Quality Masonry will shore up and dig out a corner of the building, pour a footing, lay eight inch block, and cover the block with thin stone to look original.
Preservation work will continue with the roof, windows, siding, and interior to follow as funding permits. Estimates for all phases of restoration total $150,000. To date generous donors, including the Huizenga Family Foundation, have contributed $33,700. Grant writing and fundraising efforts continue!
