Mercy junior builds her school a concession stand
Many teenagers spend their summers going away on vacations and swimming.
Caitlin Shanahan, who plays volleyball, basketball and lacrosse at Mercy, spent her's swinging a sledgehammer, moving concrete blocks and doing a complete remodeling job of the school's ticket booth to create a new concession stand.
From July until the stand was blessed and opened Oct. 6, the junior spent nearly every day working on the project.
It was developed as a way for Shanahan to earn her Girl Scouts Gold Award.
She got assistance from her mother -- who is also her Girl Scout troop leader -- her father and several other fathers in Mercy's Fathers' Club. Along the way, she learned how to manage a project by developing timelines and handling budgets. She also learned how to hang drywall and lay floor tiles, as she did the manual labor herself.
The concession stand will be used during all the school's indoor athletic activities to help raise money for Mercy teams. The school did not previously have a concession stand.
