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The Week of July 20, 2020 — The Pandemic Rages and Hits Close to Home. Signs of Nearing Completion Continues

The Week of July 20, 2020 — The Pandemic Rages and Hits Close to Home. Signs of Nearing Completion Continues

The data is coming in each and every day, and it doesn’t look good. PRAYER IS THE OPERATIVE WORD!!!!!

After the second wave of the COVID-19 virus hit Southern California and much of the State, it is only natural that it would become the featured image in an upcoming weekly blog. Behind the tower walls, there are patients infected with the virus who are struggling to stay alive. Despite the dedicated healthcare professionals’ heroic efforts, some will succumb to the dreaded virus for which there is no vaccine at the time of this writing. It is with a heavy heart that I write this paragraph as my wife and I have a very dear friend who is fighting for his life in one of the COVID ICU rooms in one of the towers. His beloved wife texted us a short while ago saying: “[t]he doctors and nurses are working very hard to help him get better….it is now a wait and see.” All we can do is pray and wait!

THE STATS KEEP CLIMBING

It breaks my heart knowing that a great friend is one of the California Coronavirus cases. I feel for all the families that have dealt with or are dealing with this terrible virus. May the research scientists develop a vaccine soon! WEAR A MASK!!!!!!!!
At Sunset July 21, 2020

Big Changes to the East Side of the Complex — The Curbs and Islands in the Parking Lot Are Formed and Poured with Concrete.

With final grade established for the east parking lot, forming for the concrete islands and perimeter curbs is underway.

Setting the Forms

Facing East at Grade: At the right of the image, the south and west perimeter for the east parking lot are being defined as the forms are set. Center left, forms for one of the raised concrete islands are being set.
Facing East at Grade: A few yards to the north, two crews are forming an area where raised concrete islands that will be located in the parking lot.
Forming curbs and islands along the east retaining wall.
The scope of the east parking lot as viewed from the upper level at the southeast corner of the Children’s Hospital.

The Concrete is Poured

The concrete crew begins work on one of the parking lot islands that had been poured.
Pouring and Troweling.
The size and layout of the east side parking lot.
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Dennis E. Park, MA
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨

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