St Peter’s Cambridge Head of School Marcus Blackburn, left, head of technology, teacher Michael Moore, year 11 student Yongyan Wang and year 12 student Harry Bishop with Salvation Army Family Store assistant manager Denise Burrows and store volunteer Jenny Carson behind the store’s newly-installed rimu counter on Friday. Luke Brouwer is absent. Photo: Jeremy Smith
Some old timber will be put to new use thanks to the hands-on dedication of some St Peter’s Cambridge staff and technology students.
Rimu not needed at the Masonic Hotel as it undergoes a $4 million makeover has now been made into a brand-new counter for the Salvation Army Family store.
An accompanying shelving unit was also gifted when the counter was installed at the shop on Friday.
The store’s assistant manager Denise Burrows said staff were ecstatic.
“We just want to say thank you, we are absolutely delighted.”
Burrows paid tribute to store volunteer Jenny Carson, who initially approached workers at the Masonic Hotel and asked for wood they didn’t need.
Jenny then approached St Peter’s Cambridge teacher, and head of technology, Michael Moore about making them a new counter.
Moore, teacher Rik Butler and students Luke Brouwer, Harry Bishop and Yongyan Wang obliged – spending all of last term and part of the last school holidays – making the counter after Harry drew up computer-aided designs, known as CAD drawings.
Moore told The News the project was a fulfilling one.
“It was wonderful to work on something together which we knew would ultimately be put to such great use when we were finished.”
St Peter’s Cambridge Head of School Marcus Blackburn said he was proud of the team’s work.
“Something that’s really important to us as a school is undertaking projects that make a difference to our wider Cambridge community. I’m delighted we could do this,” he said.
- This article was amended to show Jenny Carson as store volunteer, not store manager.
