- December 4, 2025
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Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn showed off the finished bed pieces.
Joe Martin filled buckets with water and the special wood-staining material.
Ellie Lou’s Brews & BBQ provided lunch for volunteers.
Garry Sharpe and Will Mathews worked on collecting the last of the special wood stain.
Windermere Police Chief David Ogden and Mayor-Elect Jim O’Brien proudly displayed one of the completed bed pieces.
Windermere Mayor-Elect Jim O’Brien and wife Kristin were tired but happy to have been part of the event.
Town staff and residents banded together to make 43 beds in just under 3 hours.
Volunteers with the Sleep in Heavenly Peace organization donned these awesome T-shirts.
Joe Martin helped push a stack of bed pieces toward a truck for loading.
Windermere Council Member Richard Montgomery kept the wood pieces steady as they were raised up to be loaded into a truck.
Each piece of wood was branded with the Sleep in Heavenly Peace logo.
Charlotte Ameral hitched a ride on a dolly.
Garry Sharpe, Beth Ely, Jerry Ameral, Charlotte Ameral, Bill Carleton and Tammy Bruner proudly held up leftover, branded pieces of wood.
WINDERMERE More than 100 Windermere residents, town staff and the police foundation gave their time and worked together Saturday, Feb. 23, during the town’s Build a Bed event. Volunteers partnered with staff from nonprofit Sleep in Heavenly Peace to help build bunk beds for children in need who don’t have beds of their own. Everyone participating helped by cutting and drilling wood, soaking it in a special stain, branding the wood and loading the finished pieces up. In total, their teamwork resulted in 43 built beds.
