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The Brickwalk

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monastery property has recently been updated and improved with repaved parking lot and widened driveway. These changes are quite noticeable, but one recent transformation is more dramatic, but less visible. For years the walkway in front of the monastery in the corridor was riddled with cracks and inconsistencies that made it not only less attractive, but also difficult to shovel in the winter. With the generous help of materials and labor, a good friend of the community offered not only to make the path smoother, but more durable and even more attractive. Originally, the walk in the corridor was concrete, so with time it was bound to crack under the dramatic changes of Michigan weather. He proposed to replace the concrete with bricks. So the work began in late July and just before the celebration of our 50th anniversary, all the bricks were placed. Instead of the plain look of a normally paved walkway, our corridor is adorned with multicolor bricks that will smoothly conform with the surface of the ground when temperatures change allowing a snow blower or a shovel to be guided over the path with less effort.