Last week, City Manager Tom Aspell put on his hard hat, grabbed his drill and attempted to build a sawhorse for his office. But when it ended up a little wobbly, he decided to cut up his instructions and use the letters to spell out his weekly city memo.
More construction
Downtown work continues
Work will continue this week in the area between Capital Plaza and Pleasant Street. The goal is to have the new concrete sidewalks poured, curbing installed, site work completed and the brick furniture zone underlayment paved so that the brick crew can begin its work next week, Aspell writes. While a brick furniture zone doesn’t sound like the comfiest of choices, we’re going to reserve opinions until we actually sit down and stretch our legs
The last batch of new street lights will be installed in that section this week as well.
In other news, three classes of students in the construction program at the Concord Regional Technical Center toured the Main Street Project last week with their instructor, John Hubbard. They were given a “boots on the ground” overview of the project by City Engineer Ed Roberge, City Project Field Supervisor Greg Meagher and Severino Construction Project Superintendent Tim Schaaff. If your community group would like a brief tour of the project, call the Main Street Project hotline at 230-4601 or send an email to mainstreet@lkarno.com, Aspell writes. And yes, this will be different from your weekly walks to Taco Tuesday.
Learning stuff
Monumental service
On Saturday, Oct. 10, the cemetery crew conducted a workshop at the Old Fort Cemetery to train the Daughters of the American Revolution on monument preservation. The DAR celebrated its 125th anniversary with this service project. The DAR will continue to preserve and document the monuments and markers for the next several years, Aspell writes. Think about how many monuments they’ll get done over the next 125 years.
There are at least 13 Revolutionary War patriots buried within this sacred ground. Robert Ambros, who died in 1816, was the first to have his monument cleaned and reset.
