Hank Flint, president and CEO of Coke Consolidated, a Coca-Cola bottling company, and about 80 Coca-Cola employees build the second structure on the Chestnut Mountain Ranch. The project began Monday.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With its pastoral hills, Ponderosa Ponds Road normally runs on the quiet side.
Just not this week.
The sounds of construction — hammers, saws, heavy equipment — are ringing across the ridges as volunteer crews work to make Grace House a go.
The house will be the second resident home at Chestnut Mountain Ranch, a 225-acre expanse where troubled boys go to get back on track.
Grace House is a 5,000-square-foot home that will house seven boys and a set of house parents when it opens, Steve Finn, the ranch’s founder, said Thursday, April 3.
The houses are built on the donations of people who support the ranch, said Finn, a West Virginia native who returned to his home state after working several years as a police detective in Atlanta.
Work on the house began Monday…
