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The group working to save and restore the long-deteriorating Forest Grove School in Bettendorf has received a boost withnotification that the building has been added tothe National Register of Historic Places.

The designation is important because it gives the structure "a whole new level of credibility" with funding sources, including the National Park Service, which maintains theregister, Sharon Andresen, an organizer of Forest Grove School Preservation, said Friday.

The grouphas two grant applications totaling about $35,000 that are pending with the Riverboat Development Authority and the Scott County Regional Authority.

The money would payfora newroof and gutters, eight replacement windows, a replacement for the front door and aheating-ventilation-and-air-conditioning system.

The big question everyone wants answered is when the roof will be replaced, Andresen said.

A tarp was placed over the roofin the fall of 2012, but there has been one delay after another since then as far as getting to the roof, she said.

One delay involves the preservation group's desire to build a replica bell tower, bringing the school back to how itlooked in 1949. A box for the tower needs to be built on the roof before the rest of it is replaced, she said.

"We would like to see construction of the bell tower on the ground this winter so that it can be lifted by crane in the spring, but we hate to commit to anything because it's all dependent on money," she added.

Another delay involving the roof is that the group first will have to build a chimney even though it will be non-functioning because that was a significant feature of the original school, Andresen said.

Still, much has been accomplished since she and others interested in saving the school including the children of its former owners announced their plans in February 2012.

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The Canada Science and Technology Museum has halted work on replacing its roof after asbestos was discovered in roofing materials in the nearly 50-year-old building.

The museum discovered earlier this month, on the first day of the renovation project, that cement in the roof had a one-per-cent concentration of asbestos, said Fernand Proulx, the interim president and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation.

As we started taking some of the membrane off, we notice some of the materials didnt look quite like concrete, Proulx said Friday.

When testing confirmed the presence of asbestos, the museum corporation halted work and brought in Stantec Consulting Ltd. to test air quality, beginning the evening of Oct. 16.

The tests did not detect the presence of asbestos fibre, and showed only minimal or non-existent particulate readings, well below required standards, the corporation said in a news release.

Proulx said the museum is now conducting air quality tests on a regular basis. Weve had zero traces at this point and were monitoring it, he said.

The museum plans to reseal the roof over the next two or three days and postpone the roof replacement for several months while it figures out how to proceed, Proulx said. Because of the asbestos, were going to have to have a different approach to take (the old roof) out.

While Proulx stressed there was no risk to museum visitors or staff, he said the problem will cause a little disturbance in the museum, with plastic protecting some of the artifacts. He doesnt expect the problem to interfere with the publics ability to visit the museum.

If through any kind of adjustments to the ceiling there was any kind of risk where the air quality was diminished, wed have to take other actions at that point, he said. But were pretty confident we can manage it.

The St. Laurent Boulevard museum is housed in a former bakery warehouse that is needs $3.4 million in major structural repairs, according to the museum corporations 2013-14 budget.

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