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Construction
Photo Album
If
you’ve driven on South Access Road lately, you’ve no
doubt seen evidence of the construction taking place
up the hill across from the CRRC Rec Center. With
each passing week, we are moving closer to having a
new Tye Preston Memorial Library building to serve
the needs of the Canyon Lake community.
For anyone itching to see what’s going on up the
hill where the new library is being built, TPML has
found a way to give you a first hand look.
“From the very beginning we’ve said that this is a
library built by the community, for the community,”
says Roxanna Deane, library director. “By
documenting the building progress through photos and
creating an online album, the community can follow
the building progress and feel like they are a part
of it.”
The “Be a Part of the Story” capital campaign kicked
off in 2006 after the board of the Canyon Lake
Community Library District determined a few years
earlier that the current library was already unable
to handle the needs of the growing community. From
2000 to 2005, the number of visitors to the library
had doubled and the summer reading program was
serving five times the number of children.
Unable to expand at its current location, the
library accepted a donation of 6.1 acres of land
from the Casteel family and proceeded to solicit
donations from individuals, businesses and
organizations in the community as well as grants and
loans to fund construction of the 21,000-square-foot
library building.
A ground breaking ceremony was held last May and
construction began in August.
Local photographer David A. Jacobson visits the
construction site weekly to record the construction
process. He sifts through dozens of digital photos
from each shoot to find the best ones, gives each a
descriptive caption and then sends them to Deane who
is in charge of posting the photos online.
Find the link to the album in the top right hand
corner of this page. Visitors
to the website can opt to view each photo
individually or click on the “slideshow” button, sit
back and watch each photo with a caption fill the
computer screen before fading into the next. The
photos appear in reverse chronological order.
Photos of the progress will posted periodically
through out the construction phase. Completion is
estimated for June. We plan on closing down
the old building after summer reading in July and
reopen at the new building in August.
