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Christy Gardner pauses with her dogs Doug, right, and Libby on Tuesday morning before checking in on the progress of the new Mission Working Dogs campus on Moxie Place in Oxford. When completed, the campus will provide training for clients, who will stay in one of the 8 Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant cabins while they train their dog in a large training center close by. Gardner, the nonprofit’s founder and president, and her staff will also work with dogs that they train for other clients and that are housed in a kennel on the center’s grounds. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Construction on the new Mission Working Dogs campus on Moxie Place in Oxford is on target for a July opening of the facility. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Construction on the new Mission Working Dogs campus on Moxie Place in Oxford is on target for a July opening of the facility. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Christy Gardner pauses Tuesday morning in between some of the cabins, right, and the training center, left, at the new Mission Working Dogs training facility, which is slated to open in July. When completed, the campus will provide training for clients, who will stay in one of the 8 Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant cabins while they train their dog in a large training center close by. Gardner, the nonprofit’s founder and president, and her staff will also work with dogs that they train for other clients and that are housed in a kennel on the center’s grounds. Visit sunjournal.com to watch a video flyover of the campus. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Construction on the new Mission Working Dogs campus on Moxie Place in Oxford is on target for a July opening of the facility. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

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