Dear Editor,

I read the article about the Spences Bridge charging station (Battle in Spences Bridge over fate of EV charging station, the Journal, Oct. 1) with great interest, as it is a piece of a very important puzzle for the community of Spences Bridge; a wonderful place, unlike any other, that our family has called home for the best part of 32 years.

The most disturbing part, and there were many, was the quote from [Spences Bridge Improvement District] trustee Ross Figley. When asked why the sprinkler system had not been turned on [at the former elementary school grounds] in 2019 and 2020, Figley replied I didnt feel like turning it on. I have my own stuff to do.

The greatest source of pride for our community has always been our beautiful Green Space. The school and its ground is a special place for many of us. I remember my kids going to the school when we arrived to call Spences Bridge home in 1988. I remember hugging home plate during a fast-pitch ball game and George Billy brushing me back with a windmill fastball that scared the bejeezers out of me. I remember all the Easter Egg hunts with our kids and then our grandkids at the well-manicured, lush green grass of our school yard. I remember the campfire and fireworks of Halloween.

I hope next years Desert Daze will have the bighorn sheep visiting our beautiful green grass of home: the school grounds.

Certainly, after losing our Steelhead family, the off-season has become a challenge, especially to the local businesses. Certainly, electric cars need charging year round, and their numbers are increasing at a significant rate. Certainly, it would be in the best interest of the community to find a way to keep our charging station. BC Hydro has agreed, and says that they only need an agreement with the SBID and it can indeed stay.

Spences Bridge has spoken loud and clear. They would like to keep the station. The only thing standing in the way is the three trustees on the Improvement District, and stand in the way they did. By a vote of 2 to 1 they have made the decision for all of Spences Bridge: the charging station has got to go! So, so sad.

As sad as it is, this is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is family and friends.

For decades our families have had their own community backyard: the school grounds. Our kids now our grandkids, and even a great-grandkid or two love to come home. Spences Bridge lives within you. It draws you back: the river, the bighorn, the people, the sunshine, the scrumptious fruit and veggies, and yes, the school grounds!

Yes, the charging station is critical to the traveling public who help keep our businesses open, but it takes a back seat to family, friends, and the place they call home: Spences Bridge.

I refer back to the statement of Trustee Figley: I didnt feel like turning it on. I have my own stuff to do. I look at Chair Mike Jefferson, who though he does not live in Spences Bridge, has been the trustee driving the move to get rid of our charging station.

They are elected and paid taxpayer dollars. They have a mandate to represent the wishes of the community, not their own personal agenda; especially an agenda that has a significant impact on our community. This is not about politics: this is about our town, our families, our history and, I would suggest, our future.

The AGM is coming up soon. I would ask the two trustees who voted to have BC Hydro yank our charging station, most likely forever, to do the right thing: step down and call an election.

The grass can still be green, we can replace the dead trees, we can have ball tournaments and put our beautiful school grounds on display to the Trans-Canada Highway audience once again.

Thank you for your service. Now let someone who lives in Spences Bridge and someone who is not too busy to water the lawn make it happen.

Citizens in concern,

Steve and Paulet Rice

Spences Bridge, B.C.

Dear Editor,

In May, Ashcroft Terminal created a working group to examine issues associated with gate installation and develop alternatives to riverfront access at the slough, located on the Inland Ports private property. To be accepted as part of the working group, one had to apply and meet eligibility criteria. Essentially, this meant that all working members were handpicked by Ashcroft Terminals management team.

The working group consisted of representatives from elected bodies, employees of the Terminal, and the community at large. Examining the selections carefully, one finds that all selected elected representatives (Bonaparte Indian Band, Village of Ashcroft, Village of Cache Creek) have direct associations with Ashcroft Terminal or Landucci investments as employees, former employees, or business partners.

Add another three employees of the Terminal and the mix is six to three. Not great odds for true community engagement.

Besides the obvious unbalanced weighting in the working group itself, Ashcroft Terminal also brought in a facilitator, an engineering consultant both paid by Ashcroft Terminal and representatives from CN and CP, for extra expertise or intimidation, depending on how you look at it. The working group was co-chaired by a member of Ashcroft Terminals management team and a former Ashcroft mayor who lobbied hard on Ashcroft Terminals behalf when he served as mayor, and worked for the company after retiring.

I would say that the deck was stacked against the community having meaningful consultation even before the process began. But maybe Im just biased.

Gloria Mertens

Ashcroft, B.C.

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Thats how long it takes for a room to become engulfed in flames after a fire starts and how much time you have to escape, according to State Fire Marshal Paul Parisi.

Years ago, we had more time to escape a house fire, he said. Legacy furnishings and natural materials took much longer to ignite and engulf a room with fire and smoke.

But the synthetic materials in most modern home furnishings burn faster and hotter and produce much more toxic smoke, Parisi said. Two decades ago, that escape time was about 17 minutes.

Its been a deadly year for residential fires in New Hampshire. Eight people have died in seven homes; none had working smoke alarms, Parisi said.

Just last Sunday, 53-year-old Douglas Holmes was overcome by smoke and died in an apartment house fire in Colebrook.

When Colebrook firefighters arrived at the two-story wood-frame building on Main Street shortly before 7:30 a.m., they found residents on the roof and heavy smoke and fire pouring from the house. One man fell and was hurt. Firefighters rescued four others, according to Colebrook Fire Chief Brett Brooks.

Firefighters then rushed to the back of the building, where they used a ladder to rescue two more residents from an outside porch. Some time later, they learned of another apartment on the second floor.

Thats where they found Holmes, Brooks said. They didnt even realize that there was another apartment door because the smoke was that bad, he said.

There were seven apartments in the building, which was originally a church, and one unit was unoccupied. Nineteen people were displaced in the fire, including seven children.

No warning sounded

The fires cause is under investigation, but it appears the building had no working smoke alarms, Parisi said.

If they had earlier warning of the fire occurring somewhere in the building, they may have had additional time to escape, but instead their escape path was cut off because the fire took possession so quickly, Parisi said.

They didnt have that early warning, and therefore their only escape was the roof and fortunately, they were very lucky that the fire department was able to rescue them off the roof, Parisi said.

John Holmes learned of his brothers death in a call from another family member last Sunday. Doug loved the outdoors, Holmes said in a brief phone interview. Growing up, he loved to fish and he loved to hunt, he said.

The most common causes of accidental residential fires, Parisi said, include improper disposal of smoking materials or woodstove ashes, overloaded electrical circuits, chimneys that have not been cleaned or are too close to combustibles, and food or other items left on a stove.

Those are all preventable fires, he said.

While the spike in fire deaths last spring coincided with the arrival of the pandemic in New Hampshire, Parisi said investigators did not find any connection to the crisis. The individuals involved were not out of work or otherwise home because of the virus, he said.

Most unintentional fatal fires in New Hampshire occur between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., Parisi said.

Indeed, last Sundays fire could have been even more devastating had it occurred overnight, Chief Brooks said. If itd been earlier, with the smoke detectors not working, it would have been questionable whether people would have woken up, he said.

When the fire started, he said, I think most of them were up. They were getting ready to cook breakfast.

Those who lived in the basement apartment and on the first floor got out on their own, but just barely in time, the chief said. A lot of them were barefoot and in bathrobes and whatever they could grab on the way out.

Brooks said the weekend timing of the fire also brought dozens of firefighters to the scene quickly. Its a good thing it was a Sunday and not during the week, he said. Some people travel out of town for jobs.

Consider sprinklers, too

Most people think a fire will never happen to them, Parisi said. Fire does not discriminate, and when there is a fire, smoke alarms are the biggest factor when it comes to giving people time to get out alive.

Closing your bedroom door at night can also buy you critical time. The fire service has an easy-to-remember slogan to drive the message home: Close before you doze.

Most people mistakenly think its safer to leave your bedroom door open, to alert you in case of a fire, Parisi said. A 2018 survey by the UL Firefighter Safety Research Institute found that only 29% of people close their bedroom doors at night.

But closing that door could save your life, buying you time to call the fire department for help, Parisi said.

You have three minutes until that room comes to flashover, and the smoke is so much more toxic than it used to be that one breath of that smoke could be enough to render you unconscious, he said.

The majority of people who die in house fires die from smoke inhalation, not burns, the fire marshal said. But if you have your door closed, youre preventing all that heat and smoke from entering your room, he said. Closing your door can buy time for help to arrive if you become trapped.

The best smoke alarms are interconnected, Parisi said, so that if one goes off, the rest will too. If a smoke alarm does go off, check the doorknob first, he advised. If its warm, dont open the door, he said, but if its cool, you can open the door and make your escape.

Parisi also encourages people to install residential sprinkler systems in their homes, especially in new construction. What that does is it suppresses the fire so it does not extend beyond the area of origin, he said.

These systems save lives, the fire marshal said. There has never been a multi-fatal fire in a residential sprinklered building in the United States, he said.

Sprinkler heads will only go off if the heat in the room reaches a certain temperature. Theyre not triggered by smoke, Parisi said. Consider it just like you consider putting a lawn sprinkler system in, he said. It could save your life and it could save your familys lives.

Colebrook Fire Chief Brooks has something else he wants people to remember. When in doubt, get out, he said. Everybody wants to save their house, but you can rebuild your house.

Its tough on firefighters to lose someone in a fire, Brooks said.

You feel bad for the family and you always wonder if there was more that you could do, he said. But sometimes just the circumstances the smoke, the fire, the heat you still do your best to knock it down so you can get in there, but time is always a factor.

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Almost three decades after the plans were first mooted, over nine years behind schedule and more than 4bn (3.6bn) over budget, Berlins new international airport is finally ready to open its doors.

But the already tortuous birth of Berlin-Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport (BER) expected to open on 31 October, and once hailed as a celebration of the ambitious German reunification project, has only been compounded by the decision to unveil it in the middle of a pandemic.

With the air industry plunged into the worst crisis of its 100-year history, most airplanes grounded and major airlines facing the prospect of bankruptcy, even the airports chief admitted the endeavour is at best courageous, at worst foolhardy.

During a recent guided tour ahead of the opening, Engelbert Ltke Daldrup, the chairman of Berlin-Brandenburg airport since 2017, said: Not only Berlin, but by extension the whole of Germany became a laughing stock over this. German engineers like me have felt embarrassed.

He admitted it may take years for the industry, and by extension his airport, to crawl back to anything like its former standing.

We are ready for take off, he said. But I expect it to take as long as maybe three or four years, for us to reach pre-coronavirus level of business ... the economic situation is dramatic.

His operating manager, Patrick Mller, goes so far as to say a recovery cannot be expected until there is a vaccine.

Daily passenger numbers at BER are down by 100,000 passengers compared to before the crisis. It is currently haemorrhaging 1m a day, on top of high losses due to being over budget and years behind schedule.

Four months ago Lufthansa, the national airline and the second largest passenger carrier in Europe, had already received a 9bn state bailout, in an already stark warning of the state the air industry was already in.

Even before it opens, the operators of BER, 11 miles south of the centre of the German capital, which replaces the East German era airport Schnefeld, have requested 300m in taxpayers money just to keep it afloat. Detractors have accused the operators of using the coronavirus as a cover-up for an already existing crisis.

In a further sign of how diminished the air industry is, hundreds of airport workers will be put on Kurzarbeit, the German government scheme where employees accept reduced working time and pay and the state compensates them.

Finally, BER is ready to start operating, but there is very little air traffic and that really is tragic, admitted Roland Bhm, head of testing.

Nevertheless, he is going through with meticulously planned dress rehearsals, with thousands of extras members of the public who have been drafted in as volunteers to test the workings of everything across the 300,000 sq metres space, from check-in procedures, to the comprehensibility of signs and symbols, right down to the toilets.

Currently there are 430 testers. Silvia Schulz, a gardener from Berlin, has brought her mother Elke for what she calls a historic day out to the airport.

I love flying, but obviously havent done so since before March, so it feels a bit nostalgic, she said, clad in a face covering and picking up a bag of freebie airport memorabilia, including a BER coffee cup, a keyring, and a drawstring bag. While she cant fly, she will have to make do with todays test destinations of Grenoble, and later Bournemouth, which will see Schulz and her mother driven down the runway in a bus half-full of masked, socially-distancing fellow travellers.

We will have to pretend we are really flying. Though if I had the choice, Id go to the Maldives, she said. She and her mother have followed the dramas of the airports failure to open over the years, which has led to a range of wry slogans on T-shirts and mugs such as: Lets just move the city of Berlin to a functioning airport.

Its turned the city into a bit of a joke and added to the distrust in politicians and to be quite honest, I will only believe it is to open next month when it really happens, she admitted.

Its shiny walnut panelling, and Jurassic-era beige floor, have prompted German design critics to say the airport is embarrassingly 1990s, the decade when it was first conceived in the euphoric post-unification era. The choice of the name, Willy Brandt after the former West German chancellor, whose strongest legacy is his attempt to achieve reconciliation between western and eastern Europe during the Cold War, is in a similar spirit.

Throughout the airport preparations are being made for the opening day. Plastic is being taken off monitors, advertising billboarding is being installed, and equipment is being moved from Tegel airport in the west, due to close in November. Everything appears to be a reminder of how life used to be.

Daldrup now insists the airport, once considered too small to cope with the growth in air travel, will now be really useful as long as people physically distance.

But even before the pandemic the project was beset with challenges. Its construction was beset by rows, often played out very publicly, over trivial matters like the type of rawl plugs used and more seriously the sprinkler system, the cabling and fire doors. Almost all Berliners remember how, in the winter of 2013, no one knew how to turn the terminal lights off, so they were left to burn day and night for weeks on end.

Daldrup blames European over-regulation for many of the complications. But he said the result of repeated returns to the drawing board is the safest airport in the world.

The opening ceremony, once expected to be a big party which would attract hundreds of local and international celebrities, he said, will now be low-key.

Some commentators have said one of the more recent fall-outs over noise reduction specifications campaigned for by local residents is a fitting denouement to what has been a humiliating drama.

The southerly runway was redesigned in an effort to reduce noise. But the aviation trade union Cockpit argued it would force pilots to make a complex 145-degree turn on takeoff, referred to as a Hoffmanns curve. The national association of air traffic control has referred to the turn as challenging, while pilots wary of its potential to unnerve passengers have already nicknamed it the puke curve.

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City Manager Darin Atteberry has signed a declaration and order for mandatory action level IV water restrictions for lawn watering and other outdoor water uses going in effect Thursday, October 1 to avoid water shortage due to ongoing drought conditions, Cameron Peak fire and infrastructure repairs related to the Horsetooth Outlet Project.

The water restrictions are pursuant to Fort Collins City Code Section 26-167 (a) and the Water Shortage Action Plan (WSAP). Additionally, action level IV alternative water restrictions are reserved for unique water shortages that are not addressed by other action levels within the WSAP.

The city manager will proclaim the end of the water shortage, lifting restrictions when they are no longer required which is expected to be Monday, November 30. The mandatory water restrictions will be for all Fort Collins Utilities water customers.

Lawn watering is not allowed and sprinkler test times must run minimally to maintain a sprinkler system, but sprinkler blowouts are allowed. Trees can be watered by hand, drip system of deep root fork or needle only at any time.

Non-Landscape Water Use are as follow:

EXCEPTIONS BY PERMIT

Exceptions will be made for athletic/active fields for health and safety purposes and new lawn installations. Enforcements for not abiding by the new water restrictions include $50 to $1,000 for residential fines per violation and $250 to $1,000 for business fines per violation.

For information regarding water quality and the Cameron Peak Fire, visit:fcgov.com/utilities/2020-wildfires

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See whats on the market in the GTA with a selection of virtual Open Houses.

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Hocus Pocus is centered on witch sisters Winifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson. Fans of the beloved hit may have overlooked these plot holes about them.

In the decades since its release in July of 1993, when the summer sun made autumnal frigidity seem a distant memory,Hocus Pocushas become an October institution. Fans singing "I Put A Spell On You" into their hairbrushes, throwing elaborate viewing parties under the glow of orange twinkle lights, and working tirelessly to recreate the screen accurate costumes of the iconic Sanderson Sisters have become assynonymous withHalloween ascandy corn.

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After so many repeat viewings, fans might find some inconsistencies surrounding the trio of Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson. Some of the details of their use of magic, their motivation for destroying the children of Salem, and even some pieces of their eyebrow-raising dialogue are tempting to deconstruct given the umpteenth watch party.

The film opens in Salem, Massachusetts in 1693 on Halloween night. The Salem Witch Trials were over by September of 1692 when then-Governor William Phips (whose wife stood accused of witchcraft) dissolved the trials and made spectral evidence unusable.

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How then were the Sanderson sisters still getting persecuted? Wouldn't they have been ignored? How did they manage to escape the Salem witch trials to begin with - by holding up in their ramshackle house until villagers found them illegally?

The Sandersons curse Thackery Binx to assume the form of a black cat for all eternity after he interferes with their ritual early on in the film. At their hanging, this proves to be a particularly useful curse on their part because he can't get the attention of his parents, save for a few meows. No one in the town ever finds out what happened to Thackery, and he remains trapped in his feline form.

By the time he encounters Max and Dani some several hundred years later, he hasthe unexplained and sudden ability to speak English to the extent that he can be understood. What are the particulars of their curse then,to allow him to speak only when it's a convenient plot device?

When Max and Danicrash the Halloween party at Allison's parents' house, they realize that not only does she come from an affluent family, they're also more than likely descendants of the puritanical witch-hunting party responsible for killing the Sanderson sisters.

If that's the case, given all the more credence by the party's 17th-century dress code, then why don't the Sanderson sisters simply hold them accountable for their murder? Instead of razing the colonial mansion to the ground with every resplendent attendee still inside, they go to the much more plebeian party at the town hall where Max and Dani's parents are dresses like Dracula and Madonna.

William Butcherson and Winifred Sanderson are mentioned by Thackery Binxto have been romantically involved until Billy cheated on her with her sister Sarah. Winnie killed him, cursed him, and buried him until his resurrection in the 20th century as an instrument of her wickedness.

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The reason for his untimely demise notwithstanding, what exactly about Winnie drew Billy to her in the first place? Was she ever pleasant to be around? Sarah Sanderson is shown to be kinder -if a little dim-witted-whereas Winnie is clearly a bully. And how did Thackery come to know about Billy in the first place?

Despite the fact that the Sanderson sisters have been dead for hundreds of years, when they're resurrected they seem to know a thing or two about the ways of the modern world. For one thing, Winnie knows something about driver's permits.

How is this possible when she doesn't even know what a city bus is? Or a paved road? A driver's permit should be the last thing about the concept of automobiles that she's aware of, yet she asks Max for his.

In an attempt to distract them while running through the Sanderson Sisters' Museum, Max sets off the sprinklers onto the Sandersons. He refers to it as a "burning rain of death," which they take to mean H2O will kill them.

Despite Max shouting this, he's drenched by the water himself, and in their frenzied flight away from it, they don't seem to notice that he isn't succumbing to it. Is it really the spray of water out of something as novel as a sprinkler system that scared them, or did they actually think they wouldmelt like the Wicked Witch of the West?

On their quest to track down Max and Dani, the Sanderson sisters make a little house call to who they perceive to be their "Master;" a man dressed as Satan. At one point, Winifred is even told to "go to Hell" and she responds, "Oh, I've been there, thank you. I found it quite lovely."

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If they have no fear of the Afterlife or being sent somewhere to suffer for eternity, why are they so driven to become immortal and regain their beauty? Why even fear death? Why be concerned that Dani and Max could use their spellbook against them?

After the Sandersons crash the party that Max and Dani's parents are at, Winnie takes to the stage and commands the room by singing, "I Put A Spell On You," a popular song from the '50s that she would never have heard given her death in 1693.

How is she able to call upon the lyrics? Did she somehow scan the minds of the performers and gain their knowledge? Is she tapping into the collective consciousness of the crowd?Since it's one of the most popular scenes in the film, fans probably never thought to question it too closely.

In a ghoulish climax, Sarah Sanderson summons all of Salem's children to the sisters' house to give them some of the potion intended to suck their lives from them. All the sisters have ever wanted is to use the children's life force to restore their youth and beauty, but Winifred makes a strange choice at this point.

Instead of everlasting life, she chooses vengeance against Dani with what remains of the potion. Surely getting revenge against one bratty child shouldn't usurp their only chance at succeeding in matters of immortality?

The Sanderson sisters are required to "wake" the spellbook up, but when Max and Dani defeat them at the end of the film, the end of their magic should have caused the book to be dormant once again. After they disappear, the eye on the cover pops open, implying they could return.

Regardless of the fact that a sequel to the popular film is in development, at the time no one knew the future of the franchise. How was the spellbook still "alive?" Does it have anything to do with Allison possibly being a witch as well?

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GALESBURG This year the TKE (Tau Kappa Epsilon) organization celebrates 100 years at 160. W. South St. in Galesburg. This makes the present TKE House at Knox College the oldest TKE house in the world. A commemoration rock and plaque in the front of the house note this historic element of Knox TKE history.

The TKE House was built in 1906 for Knox College Professor William F. Bentley, professor of music and director of the Knox Conservatory of Music. The Tudor design six-gable house was built for the Bentley family as well as a place for Knox music students practices.

The first floor was the parlor with fireplace, library, dining hall and kitchen.

The second floor had a master suite with an attached study room with a fireplace as well as an infant changing room and a nursery.

The third floor featured three music practice rooms and a storage area.

The house originally had an octopus coal heating system that was replaced with natural gas and subsequently with radiator stream heat. The steam heat was replaced with a gas-powered boiler.

The attic storage area became known by the members as the rack. In the rack were bunk beds to accommodate the members who lived in the house. When the requirement for all members to sleep in the rack was lifted, members slept in their individual study room and the rack was repurposed.

The first floor kitchen was moved to the basement. The kitchen was renovated into an apartment for the housemother when the college determined in 1955 that each fraternity must have a resident housemother. The first housemother in 1955 was Pearl Maxey, whose son was a Knox student. When the last housemother retired in the 1970s, the housemothers room was renovated into a social room. Today, that room is an individual room for a member.

All of the second floor rooms were used for members.

One room was eliminated in 1990 when the house was renovated. That room was turned in to a large restroom.

In a house that had as many as 28 residents and countless guests, there were minimal restroom and bath facilities. Today there are four restrooms and bathrooms with numerous showers, including handicap-accessible facilities.

The ramp and deck that surrounds the outside of the house was added in 2002. The addition of the deck and ramp made the TKE House the first handicap-accessible fraternity house on the Knox campus.

The basement, once a storage area and then a dining hall and kitchen, is now a social area with a complete modern kitchen and a large restroom as well as an energy-efficient laundry and mechanical room. The house employed full-time cooks for the members to take meals in the house until in the early 70s, when the college required all to board with the college. At one time there were nearly 100 members making the cooks job a real challenge.

During renovations, the house was outfitted with a fire system, an overhead sprinkler system and a fire escape.

A number of the house repairs and renovations occurred in the 1990s after the college wrote the TKE alumni that the house needed immediate attention. Over $300,000 was raised from TKE actives, alumni and friends. Renovations included all new windows, door frames and doors; new plumbing and electrical; new roof and exterior painting; new heating system, insulation, painting and lighting; hardwood floors on all three levels refinished; woodwork stripped and refinished; restrooms added; basement drains added; paint stripping from stonework on the first floor stone facade; and more.

The later rack renovation featured new heating and an AC system as well as lighting and floor refinishing.

During renovations, the gable interior area and attic were explored and finds included vintage cans, documents and sports programs. A dumbwaiter was found buried in a wall. Pocket doors on the first floor were found. The first and second floor hardwood floors were found to have been shimmed to be level with vintage baseball card and local newspapers from the 1906 time frame. There were various woods used in different rooms, including oak, maple, walnut and cherry.

Over the years the house has been landscaped; the exterior redone and painted; and new gutters, roof and fire escape. The original roof was slate.

The repairs and renovations have been done with a focus on maintaining the original characteristics and architectural features of the house. The front door is original, as are the hardwood floors. The window oak woodwork is original. The two fireplaces and the mantles that heated the house are original. The pocket doors and dumbwaiter remain, as do the overhead wooden beams in the original library. The exterior paint colors are the same or very similar to the original 1907 colors.

All items found in the house, or that were required to be removed, were donated to the Knox Archives.

A capital improvement fund is in place to address the next projects, which will include an updated laundry room, a time capsule to commemorate 100 years at 160, exterior repairs and more.

The house has served as much more than living quarters. Long a social center on the Knox campus, the TKE House has hosted formals, dances, dinners, Mothers Weekends, frat parties, concerts, speakers and more.

For decades, annually the members moved out of the house for a weekend and their mothers moved in for a weekend. The mothers club helped raise funds and raise "awareness" for cleaning and organization. When the members returned to the house on Sunday, it was spic and span clean.

Numerous historic events have occurred in and around the house. The Tri-Delt sorority original installation event was held and hosted in the TKE House.

The house has served and survived 100 year as a college fraternity. The house has had fires, floods, broken pipes and other challenges, but it still proudly stands for the diverse brotherhood of TKE.

Over 1,200 Knox TKE students have called the TKE House home. Countless students, friends and family have visited the house and have many memories.

TKE alumni have excelled in their fields and careers. TKE alumni include an NFL referee, business leaders, military leaders, professors, labor, union and environmental activists, politicians, authors, teachers and countless charity volunteers. Some of the funds raised by TKE are earmarked for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. Nearly the entire chapter served in World War II, and many served in other wars, including Vietnam. A number of TKE alumni made the ultimate sacrifice for the United States.

TKE looks forward to the next 100 years at 160 W. South St. on the Knox College campus.

John Gorski is chairman and president of the Knox College TKE Board of Advisors.

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PORTLAND, Maine The Portland Fire Department responded to a small fire inside of the Proper Cup Coffee House on Forest Avenue Thursday Morning.

Portland Fire Deputy Chief Jon Hendricks says crews responded reports of smoke coming from the wall shortly after 8:00 A.M.

Hendricks adds he believes an electrical outlet started the fire that spread to a wall in the rear of the building.

"Crews made entry into the building fairly quickly with no issues, and located the fire and extinguished it fairly quickly," said Hendricks.

Hendricks adds the building does have a sprinkler system, but it was not active. The building did sustain minor damage and Hendricks says the Proper Cup Coffee House may need to close for a short time. The rest of the building at 500 Forest Ave can remain open.

Part of Forest Ave was closed for roughly one hour while crews responded but has since reopened.

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