Burn it or save the bones?
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May 19, 2011
Known as the "bunk house" by some, the aging building east of the McGregor plant was built in the early 1920s as an apple warehouse.
WAITSBURG - City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe has the approvals in place and now it's up to the City Council to decide at their regular monthly meeting Wednesday night whether to allow Fire District No. 2 to use the old apple warehouse or "bunk house" east of the McGregor plant to for a training exercise - a firefighting training exercise.
That would mean the 90-year-old building, which was deemed by a Portlandbased engineer several years ago to have good "bones," to be burned to the ground, its remains to be shoved into its own basement and filled.
Hinchliffe, who has obtained approval from the cit...
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