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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. V
isitors 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.

 

 




 

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2009 -2010 Construction Photo Album

Updated 3/4/2010

AMAZING!!!  I never knew concrete could be so beautiful.

 

 

Local Businesses Raise Money for New Building

 

Click here to learn more about donating online.

           

FRIENDS

 

Lunch N' Learn  Noon - 1 PM

Wed. March 10  Researching the Value of Your Antiques

Wed. March 17  Mrs. Bush shares the secret of her chicken salad.

Wed. March 24  Useful Knots

Wed. March 31  El Cielo Biosphere Reserve.

 

 

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Volunteer of the Month

Janet Tiemann is the March Volunteer of the Month.

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Website design was funded through the generosity of the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation.