A video of the dedication of the Calling the Healing Waters sculpture & sundial is posted on Kathy Kiefer's soaplakewa.com website. Click here to portions of this historic event: http://www.soaplakewa.com/content/calling-healing-waters-0
Chuck Flint captured this image the evening the lights were installed. (Chuck Flint photo, June 19, 2009)
Calling theHealing WatersSculpture and Sundial Project
Maquette (miniature of sculpture) Top of feather will be 15 ft. above the plaza walkway. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
Soap Lake Garden Club members gather at the East Beach by the sign at the future site of their Calling the Healing Waters sculpture and sundial. (SLFL photo, Oct. 2008)
First the playground equipment had to be moved. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
Then the ground is marked to rough out the location. Note white lines forming circles. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
Forms to hold the concrete. Note the rebar reinforcement. Built to last forever. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
Closeup of rebar and forming (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
First pour for foundation wall and central platform for sculpture. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
What a magnificent viewscape when the sculpture is in the center of this 45 ft. Promontory Plaza. A 50 ft. hourglass shaped walkway will lead up to the sundial from the parking lot. (Raymond Gravelle photo & text)
Soap Lake Garden Club members stopped by the site to see the progress on Promontory Plaza and agreed to pose for a photo for this website. (SLFL Photo, April 11, 2009)
Looks like they are starting the wall on top of the footing. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 13, 2009)
Contractor's Trailer - MACNAK Construction (Chuck Flint photo, April 14, 2009)
Adam from MACNAK Construction (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 15, 2009)
Cody and Adam at work. (Chuck Flint photo, April 14, 2009)
Outside wall of form. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 14, 2009)
This part done. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 14, 2009)
Cement truck. In the background, you can see the Beeks Amphitheater and the Soap Lake Information Center. (Chuck Flint photo, April 15, 2009)
Adam making slab. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 15, 2009)
Cody from MACNAK Construction (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 15, 2009)
Truck, base, and sign (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 15, 2009)
Washing the chute. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 15, 2009)
The Calling the Healing Waters sculpture and sundial and Promontory Plaza will be located close to the Beeks Amphitheater and the Soap Lake RV Park. (Chuck Flint photo, April 15, 2009)
Forms are gone. (Chuck Flint photo & text, April 18, 2009)
Volunteers George Shutt and Randy Downing designed and built this steel supporting structure for the Calling the Healing Waters Sculpture. (SLFL photo, May 4, 2009)
Garden Club members visit the site after their May meeting. (SLFL photo, May 8, 2009)
What are these people doing? Garden Club members imitate the sculpture with the wing pointing north. (Denise Keegan photo, May 8, 2009)
Some members of the Soap Lake Garden Club (SLFL photo, May 8, 2009)
The "cage" is delivered. When set upright, it will support the sculpture six feet atop the basalt base. Special thanks to Randy Downing and George Shutt for their design and welding skills. (Photo and text by Raymond Gravelle, May 2009)
Grant County PUD donated a crane to place the sculpture and basalt columns. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
The first basalt column is put into place. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
Securing a harness on the sculpture before the crane hoists it from the trailer. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
Randy Downing double checks the harness before the sculpture is lifted. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
Some members of the Soap Lake Garden Club watch their dream becoming a reality. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
A local climbs towards the top of the slide to take some photos. (Burr Beckwith photo, May 27, 2009)
Morry Haworth and his son Morry Jr. of HFS Carnival Co. (Haworth Family Shows) pose with Dorothy Downing. The company was setting up a carnival at the East Beach and saw that the sculpture project needed some help. Project manager Raymond Gravelle states: "These guys know how NOT to tick off the locals. They were a godsend, offering their welding equipment and a huge forklift." Thank you, Haworth Family Shows! (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
Randy Downing and his mother Dorothy share a private moment. Randy, along with George Shutt, designed and fabricated "the cage," the steel structure supporting the sculpture. Dorothy Downing, treasurer of the Soap Lake Garden Club, has been deeply involved in the sculpture project since the idea was conceived 13 years ago. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
Project manager Raymond Gravelle, Randy Downing, Soap Lake Garden Club members and other locals watch the progress. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
The crane slowly moves the sculpture towards its resting place. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
Getting closer... (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
Project Manager Raymond Gravelle, PUD employees, and the PUD crane operator finesse the sculpture towards "the cage" with surgical precision. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
The sculpture was placed at 2:47 PM. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
The third basalt column is placed. (SLFL photo, May 27, 2009)
The maquette was brought to the site for ready reference as the basalt columns were placed. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
Lyle (in orange shirt) and his PUD team did an unbelievable job moving these pillars into place. The three pillars weigh over 12,000 lbs. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, May 25, 2009)
At another location, local Rick Keating uses a sandblasting cabinet to inscribe the stones. A stone is placed in the cabinet with a stencil taped to it, and Rick uses the sandblasting tool to inscribe the letters. (SLFL photo, June 2009)
Locals went to extremes to get just the right photo. (Chuck Flint photo, May 25, 2009)
Photo by Denise Keegan, May 25, 2009
Sculpture at sunset. (Chuck Flint photo, May 27, 2009)
The sculpture greets its first morning at the East Beach. (Raymond Gravelle photo, May 28, 2009)
Hour columns being set by Keith Young (next to truck), Caleb McNamara (back only), and Adam Davis, MACNAK Construction people. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
All 21 basalt columns are carefully suspended, then balanced into position, then set in Quickcrete. (Text and photo submitted by R Gravelle, June 2009)
John and Scott from Allstate Electric work on the lighting for the site. (Photo by Chuck Flint, June 1, 2009)
At another location, Rick Keating inscribes the memorial stones. Each stone is placed in the sandblasting cabinet with a stencil taped to it. Rick uses the sandblasting tool inside to do the lettering. (SLFL photo, June 12, 2009)
John and Scott from Allstate Electric work on the lighting. (Chuck Flint photo, June 1, 2009)
This day's hard workers, from left: Caleb McNamara, Raymond Gravelle, Keith Young, Keith Haglund, and Barry (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
Base rock starting to take shape. Note lighting boxes on ground in front of base. (Text and photos submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
This Columbia Basin Job Corps crew, under the supervision of plastering trades instructor Sam Prince, works on the plaza's base. (Chuck Flint photo, June 9, 2009)
Every detail in craftmanship is important. (Chuck Flint photo, June 9, 2009)
Scott Sewell, cement trades instructor, work with this Job Corps crew on benches for the site. (Chuck Flint photo, June 9, 2009)
Scott's cement trades crew after finishing the day's work. The Columbia Basin Job Corps is located in Moses Lake. (Chuck Flint photo, June 9, 2009)
Columns had to be covered when the ribbon concrete was poured. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
This could be the beginning of a sci-fi movie. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
Starting to come together, but there is still a lot to be done. Columns are set and perimeter ribbon is formed up. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
What an incredible setting. People will come from all around to take this photo. (Text and photo submitted by Raymond Gravelle, June 2009)
This Job Corps crew spent the day crafting the exterior of the base. Sam Prince (back row) is the Job Corps plastering trades instructor. (SLFL photo, June 12, 2009)
Nate Hicks (right), owner of Complete Stone in Dolores, Colorado, and his assistant Keoki Zwicker came to Soap Lake to do the rockwork between the sculpture and the base. (SLFL photo, June 12, 2009)
Caleb McNamara (MACNAK Construction), Keoki Zwicker and Nate Hicks (Complete Stone) and Cody Crawford (MACNAK) work on setting the memorial stones. It's 84 degrees, and XM Octane is playing in the background. (SLFL photo, 090615)
The basalt pillar in the foreground contains an inscription that begins "Calling the Healing Waters," World's First Human Figure Sundial." (SLFL Photo, June 15, 2009)
Adam, Caleb, and Cody from MACNAK spread the cement from AAA Ready Mix. (Chuck Flint Photo, June 15, 2009)
Caleb and Cody level cement in the walkway. Nate and Keoki continue work on Promontory Plaza in the background. (Chuck Flint Photo, June 15, 2009)
Smoothing the cement on the north side of the plaza. (Chuck Flint photo, June 17, 2009)
There will be strips of cement in a different color. (Chuck Flint photo, June 17, 2009)
Imprinting the seal of the Colville Confederated Tribes. (Chuck Flint Photo, June 17, 2009)
At this stage of the process, the seal is not yet clearly visible. (Chuck Flint Photo, June 17, 2009)
