This blog will present the latest information on the activities of Ishwar’s dera project in Bruce, Wisconsin. Entries will be written by Paul Bauer, a member of the ISHA Building Committee. We are happy to answer your questions, which can be sent from the form located at the bottom of the page. If you would like to be notified by email when new blogs are posted, please submit the subscription form that is located at the bottom of the page.
Dear Friends, ISHA’s team of volunteer construction planners has postponed the start of work until mid July, due to a delay in being able to move the heavy equipment onto the site in Wisconsin. If all goes well, excavation Read more
Dear Friends, It is with great joy that I can report that construction work will begin in early July on Ishwar’s tribute to Great Master Baba Sawan Singh! If you can help, please email Harjit Sohpaul at RSSB2511@gmail.com. Through Read more
Dear Friends, Great news! ISHA’s architects have delivered the nearly final design drawings for the ISHA Meeting Hall dome! During the last year, the design has undergone some major modifications. The biggest of which is the addition of a Read more
Dear Friends, As Wisconsin emerges from an unseasonably mild winter, ISHA’s volunteer builders have begun to plan a schedule for Ishwar’s construction project in Bruce for the upcoming year. Because the winter was so mild, we expect that conditions Read more
Dear Friends, After retiring from military service in 1889, Baba Jaimal Singh built a small hut for himself in a wild area near the River Beas. His disciples would carry water through the jungle to their Master, from a Read more
Dear Friends, It’s wintertime in Wisconsin, which means no outdoor work can be done on Ishwar’s Meeting Hall project. As I write this blog, the temperature in Bruce is a balmy +30 degrees F (-1 C), but the average January Read more
Dear Friends, Ishwar has told the story of how the dera in India was established along the Beas River, and how the ISHA site in Wisconsin was chosen in a similar way, along the Chippewa River. The ISHA land in Read more
Dear Friends, After the ISHA-sponsored Meditation Workshop in Menomonie, Wisconsin in September, a group of about 100 volunteers gathered in Bruce, Wisconsin to perform “Mitti Seva” for Ishwar’s building project. The group divided into several teams to work on a Read more
Dear Friends, Are you curious about the location of Ishwar Ji’s construction project in Wisconsin? Today’s blog contains some fascinating facts on the area. The ISHA Meeting Hall is being built in Murry Township, located in a remote area of Read more
Dear Friends, The lower construction site, which is the location of the parking lot and kitchen/dining hall, recently had some large pipes installed by a contractor. The pipes will solve a drainage problem by channeling stormwater runoff under the driveway Read more
Dear Friends, As part of our stormwater permit with the State of Wisconsin, we need to be able to contain all of the rain and snowmelt that fall on our buildings, roads, and parking lots. The ground surface at both Read more
Dear Friends, After the ISHA Meeting Hall site was graded and seeded, the rains arrived, and the grass sprouted! The grass growing in the photos below is mostly Oat Grass. Photo of the ISHA Meeting Hall dome site on top Read more
Dear Friends, After the two construction sites were graded by the team of sevadars, the soil at the sites needed to be stabilized so that rain storms don’t carry sediment into the nearby creek and the Chippewa River. The State Read more
This is the fourth, and final, installment of part of a long letter to Ishwar Puri from the General Superintendent of the ISHA Meeting Hall construction project, Gilbert Garrett. The letter was written after completing a two-week campaign of earthwork Read more
This is the third installment of part of a long letter to Ishwar Puri from the General Superintendent of the ISHA Meeting Hall construction project, Gilbert Garrett. The letter was written after completing a two-week campaign of earthwork activities from Read more
This is the second installment of part of a long letter to Ishwar Puri from the General Superintendent of the ISHA Meeting Hall construction project, Gilbert Garrett. The letter was written after completing a two-week campaign of earthwork activities from Read more
[Please forgive us for the long time between blog posts. ISHA has been migrating its ishanews.org website to a new web host. Stay tuned for lots of new blogs!] This is the first installment of part of a long letter Read more
Dear Friends, ISHA has hired Cooper Engineering of Rice Lake, Wisconsin to serve as our civil engineers for the Meeting Hall dome project. It is essential that all of the project design features be accurately located on the construction site. Read more
Dear Friends, Yesterday, the construction site was graced by a visit from the Master Inspector! Ishwar was driven to the top of ISHA Hill where he greeted the sevadars and inspected the earthworks. He was very pleased with the progress Read more
Dear Friends, This week, ISHA volunteers are engaged in the first actual ground work for the development of the Meeting Hall. Building projects are commonly divided into six general phases: Pre-project decisions. Early in the process, ISHA had to make Read more