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Show Four workers with subcontractor Mountain Frontier Construction out of Richfield hauled in and spread foundation preparatory to laying the parking lot in the newly constructed Cannonville CANNONVILLE Construction Construc-tion of the new Cannonville Community Com-munity Center was right on target as contractors wrapped up the final details of the project. An open house for local residents resi-dents to observe first hand the newly completed Community Center Cen-ter will be held Thursday, Dec. 28 from 6-8 p.m. The Center, under the supervision supervi-sion of project superintendent Tim Mund, was completed by the target date of Dec. 15. Crew members of Mountain Frontier Construction of Richfield were able to pour the concrete for the parking lot and walkways before the colder winter weather set in. The lot will accommodate 24 vehicles, Community Center. The work performed is right on schedule and with some more excellent cooperation coop-eration from the weather will be completed for the Dec. 15 deadline. Cannonville Prepares To Open Its New Community Center For 2001 sometimes needed when the morning 10 a.m. mail rush meets flu shot season. A special paved driveway for the ambulance to have direct access to the clinic was provided. Responding to the query why a new community center was needed, Mayor Stone pointed out that the 23-year-old original community center was "plainly sinking with water coming through in the clinic examination room, the post office and the fire place was listing severely." In addition the electrical wiring was wholly inadequate explained Stone, "you couldn't run a vacuum cleaner and the fax machine at the same time." The city was spending somewhere around $3,000 annually to maintain the poor facility and each year heating bills were rising and averaging in the $600 range. Mayor Stone began to inquire for funding and eventually a plan was proposed for a new $325,000 facility which would house the city offices, post office, and clinic. The approximately one-acre site of the old community center was sold to the Bureau of Land Management. A new piece of property adjacent to the town park was purchased for $20,250. A Community Development Develop-ment Block Grant (CDBG) was secured for $150,000, a loan from Rural Development was secured for an additional $75,000 and the city provided $100,000 funding. Bids were received for the project and the contract let Aug. 18, 2000. Mountain Frontier out of Richfield was the main contractor with numerous sub contractors through out the five month project. The result, a 2,300 sq.. ft. facility, will be approximately one-third one-third space for the clinic, 10 percent for the post office, and the remaining space utilized by the city. Space for the new clinic will include a waiting room, two examination rooms, a small doctors' office for physicians to record patient charts, a playroom for children, two restrooms, a small pharmaceutical and supply room and the main office. The new post office will occupy the front of the building with extra space provided for installation of additional boxes as the population expands. The town office, Mayor Stone noted, is a large, sunny room in the northeast corner of the facility, with additional rooms built for storage and a utility room. A library with shelving already installed has also (See CANNONVILLE page 10-A) CANNONVILLE From Page 3-A been built. The town also provided for new furnishings including new ' chairs and table, a computer and a new $30,000 unique heating system where five-200 ft. wells were drilled, pipes go down and circulate water through the facility keeping a nice even temperature. Mayor Stone also noted the famous hide of the Cannpnville Bear, around which the Annual Bear Festival was planned, will have an honored spot on the wall of the facility. Residents are encouraged to attended the open house next week and celebrate the new facility. BLM Visitor Center Mayor Stone reported that the old community center site will now be the home of the BLM Visitor Center which proposes a $1.5 million project to break ground in the Spring. That facility will house a large meeting hall and 24-hour 24-hour restrooms and will utilize red rock and Cedar shakes in its construction. The old fireplace, rather than be destroyed will be incorporated into the new design. That facility should be completed by the end of 2001. Supplementary Water System Also ongoing in Cannonville is the town's supplementary water system. The ground has been leveled, pipe laid out along the highway and a huge storage tank being built which, when combined with the storage capacity of the present tank, will be a total of 2.5 million gallons. The trenching will proceed and the 10-inch pipe will be installed and connected weather permitung. The new system will make the water supply volume and flow meet requirements for fire code as well. The well, currently being dug by Alma and Larry Fletcher, will be located just east of Edgar Dunham's home. They were down 400 feet in November and are currently drilled to 700 feet, for a well that will reach a required depth of 1300 feet. Mayor Stone has been assured there will be plenty of water once drilling reaches the Navajo sandstone level. Stone recalled to Fletcher the "not so good days" Garfield County News Correspondent Corres-pondent Marva Fletcher of Cannonville provided detailed information infor-mation for this article.. |