By Dena Wood
The Times
Fairground Grandstands Are Less Than Grand
City is faced with reconstruction or demolition decision
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The entrance to the Waitsburg Fairgrounds grandstands will be boarded off until the city decides what to do with the facility that has been deemed unsafe. The entrance to the Waitsburg Fairgrounds grandstands will be boarded off until the city decides what to do with the facility that has been deemed unsafe.
WAITSBURG – A structural engineering report on the Waitsburg Fairgrounds grandstands indicates that the structure is in serious need of either repair or demolition, City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe told the Waitsburg City Council at their Feb. 17 meeting.
Muran Engineering and Design completed the assessment and listed three recommendations: bring the structure up to standards, tear it down and remove it, or barricade it from public access, Hinchliffe said.
Hinchliffe said the grandstands were built "in typical 1930's fashion," and the structure has a host of problems. The engineer...
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