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Show SPRING CITY-- - The old Spring City elementary school, built in 1899 and vacant for more than three decades, has a new lease on according to a recent press release. The goal is to have the renovation completed by the Utah Statehood Centennial celebration life-liter- ally in 1996. : Spring City" resident and Salt Lake chiropractor Dr. Douglas S. Howard, recently formed The Old School Trust, a nonprofit corporation, under the provisions of Internal Revenue Service Code 501 , which resulted from negotiations with the Spring City DUP and the city council. According to Howard, "The purpose of the Old School Trust is to restore and renovate this of the historic facility-p- art tional Historic Registers Land-- : mark list as a cultural and social center for the use, advantage and common good of the community. Mainly, we see the adaptive reuse of the old school as a focal point for development,' advancement and promotion of the performing and visual arts in Spring City and Sanpete County." Howard plans to have the first floor open to the public by late May 1994, which will include a reception large hallballroom, a DUP history and relic museum, a visitor center, art gallery and local handicraft boutique. The grounds surwill become school rounding the a Victorian garden and park next year with the intent of making it the center of all the citys civic celebrations. Plans also call for an expanmulti-purpo- se city-own- ed sion of the art gallery to the second floor, indoor rest rooms, a restaurant and catering service, and a community theater. New concrete walkways have been installed around the building with branches leading to the city sidewalks on the perimeter of the property. According to architect Allen D. Roberts, the sidewalks are necessary to shore up the building and prevent further damage from drainage. 150-se- The next step is to pour a concrete bond beam in the buil- dings top floor to tie the walls back together and strengthen the southwest corner. These two initial projects g resulted from prior DUP efforts, which included the Heritage Days historic home tours. The two and story brick and stone building is primarily Victorian in style with revived Gothic lines and was designed by Utah architect J. Richard Watkins. A wide stairway connects the two floors, each containing eight large classrooms with a spacious hallway. The hipped roof is topped with a central bell cot, with joined by a reddish mortar, and Keenan as officers. An advisory red brick trims the windows, board is being established, by Ron and Nadine doors and Victorian arcade enChristensen. west. the on The building was. erected by trance Grace Brothers of Nephi, who Dan Keenan is currently Legend has it that a local employed many Spring City a development plan as herd offered his preparing sheepherder workers during construction. which will serve as a foundation needed the for collateral $10,200 Strates Brickyard provided for federal, state and corporate to construct the building. d the is The director of Dr. Howard grants as well as private donabricks which were fired in a kiln tions to extensively renovate the is and Fund Trust Old School the "second Holler" west of and his assisted buildings interior. For Further Susan, wife, by town near the cemetery. The Lt. Col. (Ret.) and Mrs. Daniel J. information call bisque colored brick work Dutch stepped gables, four large corbeled chimneys and a parapet over the main entrance. ftind-raisin- hand-molde- one-ha- lf Former Manti man shot in Houston VFW plan holiday social MT. PLEASAN- T- The Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 9276, will hold their annual Christmas party Dec. 17, at 6:30 p.m., in Mt. Pleasant City Halls Blue Room. Participants should bring their own dishes. Baptists plan Christmas program Sunday T- sand-rolle- 462-902- 0. at MT. PLEASAN- d, ed by Koleen Peterson At press time, MANTI funeral services were pending in Manti for a Cedar City truck driver who grew up here. Gjen Eric Nicholls, 45, was found dead of a gunshot wound in Houston, TX, an apparent robber- y-victim. found Thursday, Dec. 9, about 8:35 a.m. in the cab of his truck by the warehouse supervisor at Porteous Fastener Company where he delivered a load of nuts and bolts. "He had been shot one time and appeared to have been dead several hours. His pockets had been turned inside-ouindicating an apparent robbery," police was t, "His wallet is missing and also a CB radio and cash," said Don Cox, vice president of the Parke Cox Truckd St. in George. Cox said his ing driver carried less than $100 cash. "Whats the price of a life?" he lamented. A spokesman for the Houston Police Department said Nicholls family-owne- said. Cox said it was a regular run Nicholls had made many times. "He knew the people at the come basis," Cox pany on a first-nam- said. He said Nicholls had parked at the dock sometime around midnight and believes he had just gotten back into his cab when he was confronted by one or more assailants and murdered. "There were no witnesses and the truck door was open when he was found," Cox said. "Nicholls had worked for us about eight months,- and was one heck of a guy," he said. "It was a senseless killing. - "In the 43 years we have had the business, this is the first time anything like this has happened it is quite a shock," he said. The company runs 16 trucks. Cox said Nicholls left a wife, Cindy, of Cedar City. The recently married couple have children from previous marriages. Article courtesy of The Daily Spectrum. The First Southern Baptist Church will have a Christmas program on Sunday, Dec. 19, 11 a.m., following Sunday school which begins at 10 a.m. The program will feature a performance by Ms. K. T. Rhodes, a play "Miracle at the by the youth, plus readings, poems and songs. A potluck dinner will follow the program. The public is welcome. For further Information, call 462-351- 0. More lighting contest winners MT. PLEASAN- T- The latest $50 winners in the lighting contest were announced on Monday. Eddie arid Peggy Porter, 392 South 100 West, won in the "Holiday Classic" category and Jon and Loyce Schuhmann, 48 West Main, were the business winners. Spring City held its Victorian Christmas Party Saturday with a dance, lighting ceremony and music. The historic Spring City Elementary School was festooned with lights and holiday revelry during the event. The school, built in " 1899 and vacant for more than three decades, local to life on thanks lease new is getting a patron interest. Plans for restoration are underway and the facility could be ready for public use as early as lute May 1994. |