Story and photos by Russell Lindquist
GROSSMONT COLLEGE–While the students are away, maintenance workers will … work, work, work! They will be on campus throughout Spring break. For them, it is business-as-usual.
Plenty of the work is typical: window washing, mopping, lawn mowing and the like. Yet, with students temporarily missing from the campus – except for a few, here and there – maintenance workers (and construction crews) are freed to do some of the work that is too intrusive for Grossmont’s normal hours-of-operation.
Among the exceptional work is to pour new concrete in the 200 Arts area so that the ground will be smoother thus less likely to cause students to trip.
Workers also installed a new remote control for the campus’ water system which, according to Florentino Ramos who worked on the installation, will “help to conserve water by making it easier to turn it on and off for the whole campus.”
Ed Riel and Joaquin Barbay erected a shade structure for the kilns of Grossmont’s classes in 3D-design and sculpture. Riel Construction’s was the winning bid for the district-funded endeavor.
But even maintenance – though typically likw clockwork – is not without its own interesting surprises. Kelly White, a senior groundskeeper for Grossmont mentioned that, whilst cleaning in the parking lot, he discovered the following:
Three hamburger wrappers, six empty beer cans and six condom wrappers.
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Lindquist is Managing Editor of the GC Summit; email him at [email protected]
