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<br />Newspaper Clippings <br />New Jamestown bridge ready <br /> <br /> <br />By PAT HYiJE <br />For the Camera <br />JAMESTOWN James- <br />towners can now feel confident <br />when the two vans that carry <br />about half of Jamestown Ele- <br />mentary School's students roll <br />across the 35-loot bridge that <br />spans South James Creek. <br />They probably weren't so con. <br />fident a couple of years ago. The <br />old wooden bridge rated 15 out <br />of a possible 100 on a Colorado <br />Highway safety test. <br />"The Highway Department <br />eventually condemned the <br />bridge," said Jamestown site <br />engineer Frank Burch. It was <br />either reinforce the old bridge <br />with steel or replace it, he said. <br />"That old bridge had definitely <br />seen better days." <br />In the wooden bridge's place. <br />there now stands a 44-foot.wide. <br />two.lane, precast-concrete <br />bridge. <br />The bri.tige forks to the left of <br />Main Street. . about a half.mile <br />east of the "Mere" - or town <br />mercantile store. It was built <br />over the past two years with <br />state grants. <br />James.town Mayor Colleen <br />Williams said one factor that <br />helped the town land the grants <br />was that the state knew that the <br />school children - from kinder. <br />gartners through sixth. graders <br />- were crossing the bridge dai. <br />ly. <br />The grants were' worth <br />$135,000, but Jamestown used <br />only about $92,000 to plan and <br />construct the bridge. <br />"We were very conservative <br />in building it," Williams said. <br />"We didn't want to spend tax- <br />payers money if we didn't have <br />to." <br /> <br />A commission composed of. <br />Fire Chief Tim O'Dair, Town <br />Trustee Allan Mueller. and <br />Burch worked with the RBD En. <br />gineering Consultants of Fort. <br />Collins on the bridge planning. <br />"It was nice that we didn't <br />have to hire outside help for a <br />lot of the planning and grant. <br />writing," Williams said. "We <br />just put our minds to it and <br />made it happen." . <br /> <br /> <br />Camera stall phOIO bV Charles Wendt <br /> <br />THIS IS TERRIBLE. <br /> <br />Jl.MIIH.,1 ....r....IIr.IIJ "'Ipil"d 11ft' Ih.. ...co. <br />ur th_ I!.arth <br />Me! \\'anen ....lked down from Jim. <br />lown todilY, craning by way or the Gray <br />Eal:le mill. He: sa)" Jimlown i. ruined. <br />l\'uy hou,e on the north l'lide 01 the <br />strttt has gone do..n the s(rean: or been <br />ruined. The .tte,lm look the cenlt;:' of <br />the IUeet and all houte. mUll 1(0., Grif <br />Evan.' tJotell' In the center of an l....nd <br />rumed. Loyd & (0, and Fainr'l Itor" <br />arc ruilled, lhouKh Ih~ir Ilockt _crt <br />laved, Amon~ lhole 'Who IOlt hou.i. <br />"ie Pilul (ielJb.ut1, WBhanl Urown, \\'alt <br />Hrr;u:h, Mr. Albtulon,.MfI. Hemp.tead. <br />G. T. Ho~o. td.lJuholl. Jack \'",Ion. W. <br />W Eltlmf'lt. S;&ru I.l\l"d~.. Thf Golden- <br />'\~t' rlll:l W.l' tll'ltru)t'd, "kldr:Ul.hon'. <br />bl.lckunllh shop 'oI.Cllt do""n tlte Jtream <br />and every out hlJUIC and Il~blc In town, <br />\'ull""O ilnd the onl)' church in the pla.ce <br />have been dutroyed by the flood. Mr. <br />Warren could not COUle by way of Spnnj{- <br />dalr, owing 10 the wash 0ut; but says it <br />I::; ,('ported .1t JillllO""n lh.:1t Sprincdale <br />has ,KOlle. <br /> <br />25 <br />