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THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1970
Guard goes to summer camp
Summer camp for the Wisconsin National Guard starts this week.
The Abbotsford unit will join the majority of Wisconsin units in training at Camp McCoy in the first of several sessions.
The main unit of men leaves from Abbotsford Saturday, May 30, and will return Saturday, June 13. Other units will train at Camp Mc-Coy in July, and at Camp Williams, Wisconsin, Fort Carson, Colorado and Fort Lee, Virginia.
The bulk of the units will be a Camp McCoy, about 4,000 during the period of May 30 to June 13, and another 4,000 July 11 to 25.
Most units will continue to train at the section and platoon level. Their training will seek to review and teach guardsmen combat tactics used by various teams within each unit. Once platoon level training is successfully completed, some units may later move to company level training, combining teams into larger unit exercises.
Some of the training to be completed this year includes four consecutive days and nights of bivoauc under tactical conditions. Exercises in patrolling, attack of a fortified position and withdrawal under attack will be part of the four-day operations.
Governor Warren P. Knowles, commander in chief of the Wisconsin National Guard, will be feted by the guard at a reception on Friday evening, June 5, at Camp McCoy, and will also be the leading dignitary during the traditional governor’s review the following day, June 6.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990
Four-room addition would cost $280,000
The Colby School Board received a cost estimate of $280,000 for a fourroom addition to Dorchester Elementary this week, and sent the item to its Buildings and Grounds committee for more specific discussion with an architect.
The cost estimate turned in by Premal Sheth of PMS Inc., Eau Claire, was for a four-room addition plus new boys and girls bathr ooms, and it also included demolition of a wall and remodeling to create a larger media center.
Sheth designed the addition to the school four years ago, and recalled that it was put on the old building’s west side so more rooms could be added easily in the future if needed.
The Buildings and Ground committee will meet on Monday, June 4, at 8 p.m. at the Dorchester Elementary School to discuss the proposal. Sheth will be on hand, and members hope to get a more specific idea of measurements, construction materials and costs before making a recommendation to the board.
Sheth gave two pieces of information to the board during the special meeting May 29, however, that were not encouraging:
_ Even pushing the process as fast as legally possible, an addition at Dorchester would not be ready for the start of the 1990-91 school year, as proponents had hoped.
_ The board was told not to expect competitive bidding from contractors.
