VQLWME 73 NUMBER@ CAS CITY,MICHIGAN -THURSDAY, JUNE zi,lwg Fair still scheduled . -. L!, Arson suspected in ,- fairgrounds blaze i I I There will be a Tuscola 9 for an trour-and-a-half to antique tractor, leaf vacu- then we’re not sitting Gouty Fair this year. spray hot spots. um,sickle bar mower, tires, well.” Ironically, the grandstand lumber and some odds and Yet to be explored is There will also be a place whether the fair association . for sNctators to sit. was built in 1937 to replace ends -- all village owned -- one which had burned - also and a county4wned trailer- will have to bear all the cost Other than that, there about six weeks before the mounted generator. beyond what is recovered hadn’t been too much de- fair, according to fair Man- from insurance or whether ‘ cided by Tuesday in the The grandstand was in- the village will pay part. ager Walt Jackson. The fair sured for $4O,OOO, according aftermath of the apparently this year is July 29-Aug. 4. arsoncaused fire Monday to Caro Village Manager Normally, the association ’afternoon that destroyed the The grandstand had a Don Duggar, which is what is responsible for paying for grandstand, restroom build- seating capacity of 3,000. he felt it was worth. building improvements, ing and two food stands at Bleachers in front held an- He estimated value of the Duggar said, with the vil- 500. lage in charge doing i the county fairgrounds in other About two-thirds villageowned trucks, which of of the bleachers were alumi- routine maintenance. * 1Caro. were old. and other eauiu-*. num and were not damaged. ment at $1O,O00. : Caw Fire Chief Don Berry ALSO TO BE EXPLORED estimated the loss at about Strong winds helped He thought the total is whether bleachers or a RUBBLE and four burned out trucks were all that remained after the grand- $lOO,OOO. spread the flames from the $ioo,oooloss estimate byathe grandstand can be perma- stand h Car0 burned Monday. Aluminum bleachers, part of which can be seen grandstand to the cement fire chief might be a ‘lttle *entlYthe fair or whetherin timetempor- for is at I Arson is suspected, he block restroom right behind high. at lower right, were not damaged. The destroyed restroom building upper wid, as the woman who and also to two closeby food ary portable bleachers will left* ,feported the fire to the stands, one owned by .the REGARDLESS OF THE have to be rented or bor- sheriff’s department at 3 Fairgrove Methodist church accuracy of the estimate, rowed. p.m. said she had seen two and the other by 4-H. Paint the problem for the village youths running from the was blistered on the Lions and fair aSsOCiatiOn board Of Both Jackson and Duggar grandstand just before she Club food stand. directors k3 that insurance were making telephone calls noticed the fire. won’t Cover the replacement Tuesday to bleacher manu-. Bids under estimate, THE DAMAGE WASN’T cost of what was lost. facturers and suppliers. 1 ~ As of Tuesday afternoon, only to buildings. bvestigation by Caro police The fairgrounds and all A covered grandstand, They both indicated that gad the sheriff’s department structures except the food Duggar speculated, might the restroom building will was still underway. stands are owned by the cost $250,000 “but that’s also have to be replaced by The fire started, Berry village of Caro, which leases probably out of reach.” fair time. Replacement Of Jackson said b!eachers the two fmd stands will be vo-ed center underway said, under the seats at the it to the fair association. east end of the structure. might have to be 1nShlled UD to the organizations that ’ now, with a roof to be &ned themy By the time his depart- Lost was all the equipment possibly added later. Cost of the county voca- With the board approving $1,066 million) and the final Bids for the project were ment arrived at the scene, stored underneath the A meeting was tentatively tional education center will most bids at its special construction cost. opened in 39 separate cate- there was no hope of saving grandstand. That consisted Prior to the fire, he added, scheduled Wednesday night be slightly under the esti- session then, survey work by Since the Department of gories, of which only a few the structure. The cantilever of a dump truck, trencher the fair association had been of village council and fair mate, the Tuscola Intermed- the excavator, the first step Education committed its or- were not awarded. roof fell within 22 minutes. truck, truck used for trana- in good shape financially, board members to explore iate School District (ISD) in construction, was to Start iginal share, a federal judge Among major bids Firemen were there until porting work crews, truck- but, “When you’re talking various options and decide Board of Education learned Wednesday. ordered $5 million in addi- awarded were excavation 6:30p.m., then came back at mounted air compressor, about building a grandstand, what to do. Tuesday evening. The bids approved, plus tional federal vocational ed- and grading, Owens & Stro- low bids on a few categories tiratinn funds -- nrieinallv man Excavating. Imlav I J Including engineering fees it now appears the building ner’s ’ Products and Sales, and rrliscellaneous expenses program there won’t be far Tawas City, $158,538; roof- It was on June 21, 1876 that The first church, a 30-by- following year. glass winbows. ceived the title of vicar the total will be close to $2.8 enough along by the end of ing, Kawkawlin Roofing, Bishop Caspar H. Borgess 50 wood structure with seat- In 1897, he oversaw con- During the tenure of Fath- forane or dean of the Thumb million. the federal and state fiscal Kawkawlin, $137,960; appointed Father Clement ing for 300 persons, was struction of St. Columbkille er William T. Hennigan, and in 1945, was invested Federal funds admini- year, Sept. 30, for the $10 plumbing, heating and air T.B. Krebs as resident priest dedicated Oct. 9, 1881 in church at Sheridan Corners. excavation of the church with the robes and title of stered by the state Depart- million total to be spent. conditioning, Davanay in charge of “the mission of honor of St. Agatha by Father Krebs left Gage- basement was completed, right reverend monsignor. ment of Education will pay That would free some of Plumbing and Heating, Gagetown. I embracing the Bishop Borgess. The church town in 1900, 21 years after aided by a special cart to Strongly interested in the part of that cost and it the federal money to be Flint, $478,000, and elec- hwnships of Sebewaing, was on approximately the he had arrived. He died in remove dirt, which the school, the priest managed appears more likely the spent elsewhere, and with trical, K & H Electric, Free- Brookfield, Grant and Sher- same site as the present 1927 in Detroit but is buried priest had devised. to get state aid for it from state will contribute more Tuscola second on the prior- rand, $326,471. idan in Huron county and all structure. in the St. Agatha cemetery. Availability of the church than its original intended 1942-47 and in 1945 began to ity list behind the Motor The only category in the Catholics of hscola A parsonage was built at Father Michael J. Crow- basement proved beneficial. raise funds to build a new share, ISD Supt. Bruce Dunn City, Dunn said, “every day county.” about the same time to the at A massive fire in 1925 told the board. which only one bid was ley was priest St. Agatha school. it looks more encouraging” receiveding, but seekingwas for newexcavat- bids, That day marked the be- east and was used until 1971. from 1900-1904, during which destroyed 30 buildings in Built at a cost of almost At the time county voters that the ISD will get some of ginning of St. Agatha Par- AN AMBITION OF FATH- time St. Pancratius church Gagetown; including the or- loo,^, it opened for approved a 1.75 mill levy for the federal money. %h. er Krebs(carne true in 1886 construction and operation Stowe of the construction in Cass City, a mission of iginal church, which was classes in March, 1950. The If none of that revenue is management firm ex-’ Parishioners of the church when a brick three-story Cagetown, was begun. being used as the parish third floor of the old school of the vocational center, in received, the ISD will have in Gagetown will be cele- school was built. In August April, 1978, the state was plained, would have delayed FATHER PATRICK J. hall. had been the convent, SO a to pay the approximately the project and there was a brating its 100th anniver- of the following year, four Dwan arrived in Gagetown , JOHN G. guaranteeing it would con- FATHER MC- house was moved onto the $7oo,ooo extra out of the good chance no additiona! : sary Sunday with a rededi- nuns from the Order of St. in lW, The parish was Cullough arrived July 11, church property for the nuns tribute $1.066 million in fed- county millage, which would cation of the church. Bishop Dominic arrived to take bids would have been rev: growing rapidly and he was 1929. He was to remain more, to live in and the old school eral funds for construction. mean less money from that Y Francis F. Reh will be cele- charge.