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May 2008 The President’s Palette This
month I am adding two colors: anger and frustration (pick your own hews).
Here it is April 21st and our addition to the building has not yet
been started. No one is more disappointed than me. Here is an update on the
project. We signed a contract with the builder in early December of 2007. He requested that construction not start
until after the Christmas holidays and I agreed. He was reminded that our
building permit from Labor & Industry required that construction had to
start before February 21st. An agreement was reached in early February
that the front sidewalk would be constructed as the starting element;
however, cold weather prevented that from happening. On February 22nd
the Labor & Industry inspector threatened to revoke our building permit;
but, with a few frantic phone conversations, he agreed to accept the contract
signing as the start date. With that
crisis behind us, the contractor requested that because of the cold weather,
construction be delayed until after the Easter holidays. This is the fifth
week after Easter (and the past four weeks have had good building weather)
but the only progress has been delivery of a construction trailer to the
site. The most recent delay is awaiting removal of the pine trees at the
corner of the building which was supposed to occur last week. Now the
contractor doesn’t believe the trees have to be removed. Hopefully, by the
time you read this, construction will have started with excavation for the
basement. Once construction begins, the building should go up rather fast as
it is a simple rectangular structure. I hope that the finish work that we
must do will be completed before October but the track record has not been
very good so far. But keep the faith;
we will have the building addition completed before the end of the year (I
hope!). May Meeting Business meeting at Priscilla
Richardson's subject will be 'Designing a Quilt". She is an award
winning Member notes If you would like to send a
card and words of encouragement to John Pollins, send them to 438A at Westmoreland Excela, phone is 724-832-4719 or cell
phone 412-554-8397, or to their home. He is undergoing several weeks of rehab
following surgery. Summer Classes and workshops Class
Fliers will be coming out soon. In
the meantime be aware that here at the Center, Doreen Currie is organizing 5
Sunday Workshops in pastel and oil with David Ludwick The
schedule for these is May 18, June 29, July 27, August 31 and September 28.
The fee for each workshop is $50. Call Doreen at 724-539-2168
or email her at <doreensfernfarm@yahoo.com> Exhibits: The
Natural Dimensions Exhibit will run through Saturday, May 3 until I'm
anxiously awaiting the exhibit of our very youngest Greensburg
Art Club member, Jordan Streussnig. We will
be having our exhibit at the Sat. Art
Sale-Beads and Other Small Treasures Sat. May Dues Dues for
the period Open Studio Open 5
days 10am – 1 pm, $3.00 per session Monday Monitor, Betty Reese (863-8575) Tuesday (1st & 3rd)
Monitor Nancy Dalverny (412-373-0711) Tuesday (2nd & 4th)
Monitor Sheila McKeever (832-2483) Wednesday (1st & 3rd)
Monitor Maureen Baird Wednesday (2nd & 4th)
Monitor Evie Sharbaugh Thursday Monitor Nina Stahlberg
(412-242-5360) Friday (1st & 4th)
Monitor, Betsy Ohr (837-1360) Friday ( 2nd) Monitor, Alan
Reese (863-8575) Friday (3rd) Monitor, Dawn
Sherwood (887-5506) Wednesday Evening Figure Sessions 4th
Monday each month - Monitor –
Jamie Cooper 724-238-4778 Please
submit information for the newsletter by the 20th of each month
to: Ann Gravelle argravelle@yahoo.com, 724-600-0709, or
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