Donation of Display Case
From left, Terry Bushka, of Bushka Lumber and Millwork, incoming Rotary President Kurt Kuegler, outgoing Rotary President Brian Godin, and Town Manager Charles A. Frigon pose in front of a display case the Rotary Club donated in the new town office building in Watertown at the former Heminway Park School.
Watertown Rotary donates for display case
BY LARAINE WESCHLER
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
WATERTOWN — Town Manager Charles A. Frigon is grateful to the Watertown Rotary Club for what he hopes is the first of many donations of a display case for the new Town Hall in the old Heminway Park School.
The case, which features wooden cabinets on the bottom and glass doors with shelves on top, will display information, awards, photographs and memorabilia from the Rotary Club.
Frigon said the display will help bring a sense of pride and community to what will one day be the center of government in Watertown. “It will grow as we grow,” Frigon said.
Brian Godin, president of the club, said the club has been working on the case since July. He said he hopes other service organizations will follow Rotary’s example and support the new town hall.
He said Bushka Lumber and Millwork installed the case, which cost over $7,000, where the lockers of the old school used to be located.
The Rotary Club was founded in 1959 and supports numerous local civic projects. This year, the club bought new tee flags for the town-owned Crestbrook Golf Course; it also put in new cabinets and curtains and is painting the senior center’s recreation room. The club also sponsored Adam Kuegler and Stephanie El-Massri, both rising seniors at Watertown High School, to attend a week-long World Affairs Seminar in Wisconsin. The seminar, which is going on this week, cost $1,150 per student.
Frigon said he’d like to have other service and civic organizations create their own displays, and even have the industrial community in Watertown show off the products produced in town.
The other cases don’t have to be exactly the same, as long as they match the color of wood. Frigon hopes to eventually stain the other wood panels in the building to match the case.
Town offices formerly located at the Depot Square Business Center have been moving into the building in recent months.
The Parks and Recreation Department will be the last of the Depot Square offices to move to Heminway, around July 1. Eventually, offices now located at the Town Hall Annex and Town Hall will move into the new town hall building, bringing all of the town departments to one location. The Board of Education will stay at its current location on DeForest Street.