Each week, City Manager Tom Aspell trains as a face painter, street musician, food vendor and jewelry artist in the hopes of running the world’s first one-man street fair. When nobody shows up, he paints the face of the Gen. John Stark statue at the State House, and his strokes spell out the city memo!’
Put on your Business Socks
For this business confab
The Engineering Services Division will present an update on the Route 3 Corridor Improvement Project as part of the Penacook Village Association business meeting July 17 at 6 p.m., Aspell writes.
The meeting will take place in the Merrimack Valley High School auditorium, site of countless historic caucuses over small cartons of milk, including the Bieber vs. Gomez Debate of 2012.
Engineering staff will review upcoming utility relocation construction, bridge construction, whether or not to include a bouncy house and the final design and project schedule for the streetscape improvement project along Village Street. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Park It
No, really. You’ll like it now
Work on the Memorial Field parking lot continues, Aspell writes. The parking lot has been paved and new granite curbing has been installed. Within the next few weeks, parking spaces will be striped, most likely with straight lines; new fencing will be installed, and loaming and seeding will be completed. In scientific construction lingo, a once junky parking lot is about to be way less junky.
Where there’s smoke
There are smoke hatches?
The Public Properties Division of the General Services Department has contracted for repairs to the Audi stage smoke hatches, which provide the escape of smoke and flames in the event of a fire within the stage area, Aspell writes. Smoke and flames for theatrical purposes will remain entirely fake. This work is part of the continuing life safety measures initiated by the Public Properties Division.
Man, that’s late
Burning the overnight oil
The contractor, S.U.R. Construction, will begin the replacement of the 8-inch water main on Loudon Road, between Drew and Ellsworth Streets, July 16. Work will take place between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. through July 18. Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction during the work hours, though traffic at that time shouldn’t really be called traffic at all. Access to all businesses and residences will be available. So if you need to grab some cat litter at Wal-Mart or knock on a friend’s door at 4 a.m., no problemo.
Head of the class
Follow these leaders
Leadership Greater Concord, sponsored by the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce, has selected its class of 2014, Aspell writes. There’s no greater class! Also, submissions are still being taken for Class Clown.
Three city employees were selected to the class: Assistant Finance Director Katie Graff, City Planner Gloria McPherson, and Fire Marshal Sean Brown. The program is designed to foster civic awareness in the community and includes sessions on history and culture, economic development, education, communications and the media, government and politics, criminal justice, health and human services, and spirituality. Sessions on how to sarcastically respond to emails and how to fudge your time card were removed at the last minute.
