{"id":161,"date":"2010-02-17T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-10-19T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:50:26","slug":"the-road-to-cefa-the-story-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2010\/02\/17\/the-road-to-cefa-the-story-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to CEFA &#8211; the story continues!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-157\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/02\/1cefa-creating-the-road.jpg\" alt=\"1cefa-creating-the-road\" width=\"282\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\nRoy has hired crews of about 10 each to clear the road, 500m per group, and the 5 kilometers from the main road to the entry of the CEFA land is almost done! They have to make it 6 meters wide and try to crown it down the middle and dig ditches on the sides so when the big rains start, the road won&#8217;t turn into a river bed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/02\/1cefa-road-group.jpg\" alt=\"1cefa-road-group\" width=\"282\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\nYou can see that some of the crews are pretty much creating the road, whereas this one group is just cleaning up the first section right off the main road.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/02\/1cefa-fulani-worker.jpg\" alt=\"1cefa-fulani-worker\" width=\"282\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a little old Fulani man, with plastic aqua shoes, doing his part for his group of road clearers!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-160\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/02\/1cefa-where-am-i.jpg\" alt=\"1cefa-where-am-i\" width=\"159\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s Roy, having found one of the corner boundary markers for the property &#8211; lots of trudging through the brush with a machete to get there, with the help of a GPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=161&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy has hired crews of about 10 each to clear the road, 500m per group, and the 5 kilometers from the main road to the entry of the CEFA land is almost done! 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