Scott Swanson
Fir Lawn Lutheran Church’s sailboat-building project is gearing up for its second year and Pastor Joe Medley says help is needed.
Specifically, some “boat elves.”
Medley has had a hankering for years to start a sailing program for young people, who would build their own 8-foot-long El Toro-class sailing dinghies, with 13-foot masts, and then learn to sail them on Foster Lake.
A former building contractor, Medley, 66, also has some personal experience…