Harold Walker and the Construction Bus

This morning Harold Walker and I planned to have coffee at Fresh Start Donuts in Beverly Hills. As I drove up to Fresh Start’s parking lot I got a big smile on my face as parked in the lot was a school bus. As I got out of my car I said to Harold, “you brought it!”  See earlier in the morning I was watching Facebook Videos and unexpectedly came across a video of Mr. Walker teaching a shop class to a group of young people on building a cell phone holder and speaker for Mother’s Day.  Watching the video, it was so evident what a natural teacher Mr. Walker is with the young people. The teaching was being done on the very bus that was in front of me in the parking lot. It is a specialty converted former school bus now turned mobile construction shop class.  It is equipped with power saws, jigs, tools, workbenches, and more, all laid out like a small workshop. It has a generator but has also been wired to just plug into an outlet at any location. I wanted to share with you some of the photos (see below) I took of the bus and the work done by Mr. Harold and the Citrus Construction Academy. (Follow this link to watch the video on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/stellar.fellar.9/videos/752111822117818) Thank you to Josh “Handy” Hicks for his support and sponsoring of this video and the other great teaching he is doing.

Mr. Walker is President of the Citrus Construction Academy a 501c3 foundation that raises awareness, support, and funds for any and all construction-related training for secondary and post-secondary students in Citrus County. They plan to bring the bus to events, schools, and other places teaching and exposing young people to the construction and engineering trades.

Mr. Walker and I were together this morning talking about the many projects he has been working on in Citrus County including a special project that we are working on at one of our high schools that we look forward to sharing more about it in the near future.

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