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The INDEPENDENT, December 18, 2003
facility changed to multipurpose
Happy Holidays to All Wrestling
Banks School Board spent from!” This was prior to 9/11 grams continue to develop and
most of their December 8 meet-
ing reviewing the progress of
and proposal to finish the
wrestling building started in
2001. Ron Alley told the board
that, at the time the building
was started, they were hoping
to complete it in less than a
year. He said that at first they
“couldn’t keep up with dona-
tions, [trucks] were backing up
and dropping stuff off and we
didn’t even know where it was
Season’s Greetings
& Best Wishes
for the New Year!
Open House to be
held for Weavers’
fiftieth anniversary
Santa is Coming!
Saturday Dec. 20th
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The children and grand-
children of Robert and Mar-
garet Weaver are inviting
friends to an “open house” to
celebrate their 50th wedding
anniversary.
The celebration will take
place on Saturday, Decem-
ber 27, from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. at Sunset Park Commu-
nity Hall in Banks. No gifts,
please.
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need practice space. He told
the board that existing facilities
are “bursting at the seams,”
booked solid from 6:00 a.m. to
10 p.m. and, during the winter
months, there is no allowance
for community programs. Hold-
ing practice on a rotating basis
and either very early in the
morning or very late at night,
places a tremendous strain on
students. Alley said that he
started the building process as
a head wrestling coach without
adequate practice space. He
told the board that, after the
project was started, he realized
that many teams, and the com-
munity were without adequate
practice facilities.
Changing the scope of the
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and after that, like so many
things, the bottom dropped out.
Since fall 2001, the building
has sat enclosed from the
weather, while Alley and other
volunteers have done what
they can. The building is 85
percent complete, but remains
unusable. In the meantime, Su-
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Foster and Athletic Director Jim
Smith have had numerous con-
versations with Alley. As a re-
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design has changed from a
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would meet the existing need
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