'Passports' Carry Public Through Webster Community Center
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
NORTH WEBSTER - Travelers through the future North Webster Community Center Sunday carried passports into rooms featuring fitness classes for all ages and karaoke for all voices.
The senior citizens area featured the Lakeland Area quilters and their work, games and music, and the patrons inspected huge future library space. At each stop a stamp was stuck on the passport.
Completed passports were gathered at the exit for a drawing. The prizes are for three engraved plaques with the winners' names for lockers in the main hallway.
Bulletin boards filled with photographs and articles of historic events drew crowds eager to inspect them.
Comments like "This was my old locker" and "This was my third-grade classroom" were heard throughout the two-hour event.
A glass display case featured items from the building's use as a high school that served 12 grades, including letter jackets, team uniforms and photographs and a pair of pegged, elaborately embroidered pants.
This is the second open house held in the building over the last two months.
With the award of a $500,000 Community Focus Fund grant Nov. 13, plans to transform the school are moving forward.
A local 10 percent match of $375,000 is required for the project. So far, $121,000 of the required $372,000 has been raised. The North Webster Community Center Inc. has three years to raise matching funds.
A fitness center will occupy four former classrooms on the north side of the gymnasium. Sunday, exercise machines took up one room and a gymnastics class for tots another. Boy Scout Troop No. 726 filled one room with Cub and Boy Scouts and examples of their activities.
The gymnasium - which has held Lakeland Youth Center activities all year - reverberated with the sound of bouncing basketballs.
Along with the North Webster Library, the Kosciusko Community YMCA and other community organizations, the town hall and its police department will occupy the east side of the building, moving from the present location, 144 S. Main St.
The town government serves as the sponsoring agent for the community center and has secured an interest-free $100,000 Public Facility Energy Efficiency Program Loan. The funds will go toward the building's heating and cooling system.
Among the promises of financial support is $50,000 a year for 10 years from the International Palace of Sports Foundation.
NWCC board members are: John Sroufe, president; Jeff Thornburgh, vice president; Peg Lawrance, secretary; Jeff Morgan, treasurer; Dennis Wagoner; Gloria Shipley; Sherman Goldenberg; Dick Hinton; Larry Kinsey; Carole Gilbert; Tracy Benzinger; and Chris Bruno.
For more information contact: Jon W. Sroufe - [email protected], 888-894-4171; Peg Lawrance - [email protected], 834-7894; or executive director Sandy Mafera - [email protected], 834-4270. [[In-content Ad]]
NORTH WEBSTER - Travelers through the future North Webster Community Center Sunday carried passports into rooms featuring fitness classes for all ages and karaoke for all voices.
The senior citizens area featured the Lakeland Area quilters and their work, games and music, and the patrons inspected huge future library space. At each stop a stamp was stuck on the passport.
Completed passports were gathered at the exit for a drawing. The prizes are for three engraved plaques with the winners' names for lockers in the main hallway.
Bulletin boards filled with photographs and articles of historic events drew crowds eager to inspect them.
Comments like "This was my old locker" and "This was my third-grade classroom" were heard throughout the two-hour event.
A glass display case featured items from the building's use as a high school that served 12 grades, including letter jackets, team uniforms and photographs and a pair of pegged, elaborately embroidered pants.
This is the second open house held in the building over the last two months.
With the award of a $500,000 Community Focus Fund grant Nov. 13, plans to transform the school are moving forward.
A local 10 percent match of $375,000 is required for the project. So far, $121,000 of the required $372,000 has been raised. The North Webster Community Center Inc. has three years to raise matching funds.
A fitness center will occupy four former classrooms on the north side of the gymnasium. Sunday, exercise machines took up one room and a gymnastics class for tots another. Boy Scout Troop No. 726 filled one room with Cub and Boy Scouts and examples of their activities.
The gymnasium - which has held Lakeland Youth Center activities all year - reverberated with the sound of bouncing basketballs.
Along with the North Webster Library, the Kosciusko Community YMCA and other community organizations, the town hall and its police department will occupy the east side of the building, moving from the present location, 144 S. Main St.
The town government serves as the sponsoring agent for the community center and has secured an interest-free $100,000 Public Facility Energy Efficiency Program Loan. The funds will go toward the building's heating and cooling system.
Among the promises of financial support is $50,000 a year for 10 years from the International Palace of Sports Foundation.
NWCC board members are: John Sroufe, president; Jeff Thornburgh, vice president; Peg Lawrance, secretary; Jeff Morgan, treasurer; Dennis Wagoner; Gloria Shipley; Sherman Goldenberg; Dick Hinton; Larry Kinsey; Carole Gilbert; Tracy Benzinger; and Chris Bruno.
For more information contact: Jon W. Sroufe - [email protected], 888-894-4171; Peg Lawrance - [email protected], 834-7894; or executive director Sandy Mafera - [email protected], 834-4270. [[In-content Ad]]