Moving In to Our New Location

 On Feb 16, Oxford County moved from Lockdown to Red Tier which means we have a bit more flexibility to move around the community as long as we respect the pandemic protocols. So on Thursday, Feb.18 at 2 pm, several masked club members descended on our trailer storage unit and loaded up Cliff's truck and a number of member vehicles and began shuttle rums to our new club layout location in the Cartier Building at the Fairgrounds.

We were somewhat selective in our unloading process so that we are bringing the things we need to start building the layout such as lumber saved from our last layout to build the frame-work base for the new layout, plywood to sit on the framework. Of course, a lot of smaller boxes were also transported because they fit best in member SUV's and vans.

Here we see the stuff loaded at the trailer being unloaded at the Cartier Building, a former WW2 army barracks with a little known history in Woodstock that may appear in future blogs. The Slots next door were helpful in permitting us to drive over the curb into their staff parking lot, bypassing the gate at the normal entrance. This meant we didn't have to carry our stuff from outside the parking lot.  

Here are happy, masked "truckers" socially distanced in our new location, a clear span area as large or larger than our former location and on the ground floor shared with no one. We had a second shuttle run on Feb.19 with a third planned on Feb.26. We will soon be all moved in ready to get building when things open up, hopefully sooner rather than later.