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Cesar Chavez Middle School students run relays on their new track Tuesday. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)

WATSONVILLE -- For the first time since Cesar Chavez Middle School opened seven years ago, students are running laps on a track.

The new course is one of several school bond projects completed by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District during the winter break. Voters approved the $150 million bond measure in November 2012.

Students gave the $100,000 track -- $80,000 of which was covered by bond and $20,000 from funds donated from proceeds of the annual Wharf to Wharf race -- a thumbs up.

"It helps you go faster," said Dafny Lopez, a 12-year-old seventh-grader, after racing on the track for the first time during gym class Tuesday.

Coach Kathy Church has been pushing for a school track for several years. Running isn't only popular with gym classes but also with the dozens of students who participate in cross country and track, she said. The two sports provide a place where everyone is welcome and able to improve performance regardless of athletic ability.

Though the track is a bit shorter than the regulation 400 meters due to space constraints, it's an improvement, Church said. Students previously ran on a grassy athletic field pocked with gopher holes. In the mornings, when dew sat on the ground, the field was slippery. At best, students would finish the workout with sopping socks. At worst, conditions posed a safety risk.

"It's been a long wait, but finally it's done," Church said.

The district also completed other pressing projects, including:

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THE United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) will conduct its annual conference to be participated by 250 to 300 architects from the entire Visayas Region. The theme of the colloquium is Hugyaw Visayas. It will be hosted by UAP-Bacolod, UAP-Negrense, and UAP-Mt. Kanlaon. The forum will be held on January 30 to February 1 at Natures Village Resort in Talisay.

The three-day activity includes seminar-workshop, sports activities and cultural tour. One big event is the architectural tourism, Panglugayawon sa Silay (A Journey in Silay), a walking tour that features the heritage houses of Silay that have been identified as architectural landmarks by the National Historical Commission. This will be on February 1 and the guided tour will be facilitated by Architect Julieta Gaston-Patosa; Raymund Bayot, curator ofDizon Museum; and yours truly.

Participants will assemble at Casa Grande (ancestral house of Gen. Aniceto Lacson) for Pamahaw sa Hacienda (Breakfast in the Hacienda). I will brief them on the nature of the tour that will feature Silay, the Silaynons, and their houses made by sugar. Each house has a story to tell love lost, love found, gambling decadence, sweet life, rise to power, sugar politics, and hometown delicacies.

In the past, Silay was Paris of Negros. Its culture has been honed by sugar and its future is determined by the people moving the sugar industry. The architects will be greeted first by San Diego Pro-Cathedral that is arguably the most audacious expression of Silays faith and religiosity, with Councilor Solo Locsin. The silver-colored Byzantium dome was inspired by St. Peters Basilica in Rome. Lucio Bernasconi, an Italian architect, was commissioned by Don Jose Pepe Ledesma who financed 80 percent of the construction cost.

Our Gone with the Wind mansion is the Adelina Ledesma Ancestral House. This American tsalet has a drastically lower ground floor with neo- classic columns, and railings. It tells of a love story beyond romantic proportions. The Digna Locsin Consing Heritage House displays American period horizontal clapboard sidings with Art Deco grillwork and decorative brackets. French-style windows with glass panes complete the look. It is a living witness to the illusion of reality that is sugar.

The German Locsin Unson Heritage House reminds me of a diplomatic hacendado, Nonoy German and his demure wife, Inday Fe. It is an outstanding example of the neo-Spanish style that became so popular after World War II. The Federico Lacson Locsin House shows strong proto-Modernist lines and a play of roof levels of the 1930s, and the absence of ventanillas. It stands firm as a solid emblem of politics and public service.

This heritage house still follows the classic Visayan bahay na bato proportions with a double media-agua roof, and the floors (first and second) have grills and a discreet main door. This is the Delfin Ledesma Heritage House. Another house along Calle 5 de Noviembere is the Carlos Javelosa Jalandoni Ancestral House which is an example of the American period adaptation to the classic Bahay na Bato that evolved with influences from American 19th century saltshaker houses with wooden horizontal clapboard facades.

A neo-Spanish Mission style that was popular during the American Period is the Dr. Jose Corteza Locsin Heritage House. American concrete was utilized as the preferred material, with a Misador or watchtower in the rear. Dr. Locsin became a senator of the Republic of the Philippines later. This Silay house welcomed special guest and dignitaries.

Along Rizal Street is the Antonio Novella Sian Heritage house. This is an example of a streetwise townhouse, with an interesting chamfered corner treatment, glass paned windows, media agua double roofing and missing ventanillas, typical of the Visayas. El Ideal Bakery, a landmark as far as hometown delicacies are concerned, is the Cesar Lacson Locsin Heritage House. This heritage house still follows the classic bahay na bato proportions, but with glass panes and iron grilled ventanillas.

I would like to acknowledge the help of the Camera Club of Negros and the Heritage Conservation Society for providing us the necessary materials that the Silay City Tourism Office is using to prepare the Archi Tourism Info Sheets for the visiting architects. Thank you also to Lyn Gamboa of Negros Cultural Foundation for the coordination. (To be continued)

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Salford town hall worked with architects body Riba to carry out the search for the best design for a new pedestrian bridge across the River Irwell.

This is what a major new footbridge in Salford will look like after a nationwide contest involving top architects.

Salford town hall worked with architects body Riba to carry out the search for the best design for a new pedestrian bridge across the River Irwell.

The new bridge will cross a new site, which will be known as The Meadows, being built as part of the Irwell River Park project.

It is part of a 650m redevelopment of Salford Central, Chapel Street, Salford University, and Peel Park.

The elegant, curved bridge was created by Tonkin Liu and Arup. But prestigious firms from Paris, London, Stockport, and Altnricham were also in the running.

Irwell footbridge plans

Salford council launched the competition with the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) last year.

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City Hall concept design with 'swoosh'

Members of committee tasked with picking a design for the new Fargo City Hall appeared to favor a design element in one of the options presented Wednesday that would include a concave semi-circle mirroring the convex circular edge of the adjacent Civic Center. Committee members dubbed this design the "swoosh."

One of the options for a new Fargo City Hall has a two-story commission chamber as a separate building to the east of the Civic Center. Adjacent to the east of the chambers would be a three-story office space that would run along the edge of Second Street.

One of the Fargo City Hall options had two towers - a four-story office space on the western edge and a two-story office space on the eastern edge along Second street, with a wishbone-shaped atrium sandwiched in between.

FARGO Swoosh, there it is.

Architects presented three City Hall concepts to the committee tasked with picking a design for the new government building on Wednesday morning. All of the drawings had a skyway connection to the Fargo Civic Center and large, glass atrium spaces for the public.

But what the committee seemed to like most was a design element from the third option a concave semi-circle that would mirror the convex circular edge of the Civic. The committee dubbed this design the swoosh, and itll likely appear in more conceptual drawings as the committee hones in on a final design, architect Terry Stroh said.

The committee made up largely of city staff and two residents did not pick a final design Wednesday. It only looked at three concepts and listed pros and cons of each.

All three designs have the roughly 75,000-square-foot building sitting in the northern half of the Civic Center parking lot, a decision the committee made earlier this month.

The group will meet again in two weeks, when the architects will present more options using feedback from Wednesday.

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