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LeChase Takes Fundraising to New Heights

The good folks at LeChase Construction will go to great lengths to help their community. And apparently they’ll also go to great heights.

LeChase Superintendent Neil Lawther spent part of a May afternoon rappelling 240 feet down the side of Rochester’s iconic Kodak Office Tower, one of the tallest skyscrapers in New York outside of New York City.

The feat was part of the annual 21 Stories for Scouts fundraiser for the Boy Scouts’ Seneca Waterways Council, in which volunteers rappel the Kodak. The event raises money to expand Scouting for youth in underserved, typically urban, neighborhoods, providing opportunities to participate in Scouting’s character and leadership programs and activities.

“It is a little intimidating climbing over the edge of the railing 21 stories up and letting go, but once I trusted the rope and harness it was no big deal,” Lawther said. “I found it very exhilarating.”

LeChase and HB Cornerstone joined The Strong National Museum of Play in forming a team for the event. Together, they reached their $6,000 fundraising goal, sending several team members – including Lawther – down the side of the building on May 12.

“I’m glad I did it,” Lawther said when he was back on Rochester’s solid ground. “It was for a great cause.”