Team CLC restores St. Anne’s Church Paradise
St Anne's Church Paradise
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Volunteers from Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo embarked on their second
cultural restoration project recently. Having explored many options, the
organizing committee for the project discovered St. Anne’s Church
Paradise in Kuruwita. The church sits on an acre wide property and
receives little assistance from outside its immediate community.
The Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo team comprised General Manager Denis
Gruhier and his family along with over eighty associates across various
departments of the hotel. For the volunteers, the journey began at dawn
when they departed the hotel. Working through the day, the team managed
to conduct a complete clean up of the church and its one acre compound.
A brand new front door was installed, new gutters were fixed and the
washroom was fitted with new fixtures. The paint crew painted the entire
church, both inside and out including the boundary walls and church
gate. In addition the hotel was happy to gift to the church a signboard
for the entrance, a podium and twenty five chairs.
The hotel associates were on the receiving end of warm hospitality on
this day with members of the church offering them tea and snacks in the
morning as well as the evening and were grateful for the refreshing
snacks. Father Ranjan Moriass of St. Anne’s Church Paradise along with
the church members expressed their gratitude to Cinnamon Lakeside
Colombo for their gracious gesture.
CLC launched this series of activities with a restoration project at
the Abhayagiriya temple last year. Through such projects, the hotel
continues to live the John Keells Leisure pledge – “I Will Care.” This
pledge is one of five that the John Keells Leisure sector subscribes to
which include “I will get it right the first time all the time, I will
be green, I will empower” and “I will stand out wherever I am.”
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General Manager, Mr Denis Gruhier is presented with a token
of appreciation from the Church community |
Team Cinnamon Lakeside with Father Ranjan Moriass |
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