United Methodist Church bell - it's a story of community involvement
It make take a community to put a church bell in a place on honor.
Ohio Northern University engineering students participated in the bell project. ONU students learned woodworking principles from master woodworker Scott Phillips from "The American Woodshop " television program on PBS.
Phillips is helping with an EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) project to build a wooden display pedestal for the bell from the Ada United Methodist Church that was destroyed by fire in March 2013.
(Photo below) Carpenter Scott Horn of Thomas & Marker Construction in Bellefontaine works to remove support straps for the bell. Ohio Northern University engineering students created the display for the church as part of an Engineering Projects in Community Service assignment.
(Photo below) Ohio Northern University seniors David Woolley and Mitchell Schulze, right, examine a board cut by Scott Phillips.
(Photo below) Scott Phillips works with Ohio Northern University students.
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