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OGDEN — With bedrock music arrant out of a truck, volunteers upgraded the American Legion Baker-Merrill Column No. 9 architecture on Veterans Day.
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The architecture at 845 W. 24th Street in Ogden accustomed a beginning exoteric covering of gray-blue paint, a new coat floor, new autogenous paint, new walls, a wheelchair access and a accurate patio. It additionally is accepting a new roof.
Bob Yeaman of Syracuse, the column adjutant, served in the Navy for 23 years. Column No. 9 has about 530 associates of veterans from all armed forces.
He, forth with added column associates and veterans from added American Legion chapters, were abutting by Home Depot Advice Team from the Wall Avenue store. The activity began Monday, Nov. 7, and column associates achievement to accept it completed Thursday, Nov. 17, Yeaman said.
“There was a assemblage of of veterans on the roof disturbing up the shingles,” he said Friday.
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Before noon, some larboard to appear ceremonies at bounded cemeteries and alternate after to advice American Legion Riders Lowell Haskin and his wife, Jackie Haskin, of Layton. The two tore into the layers of shingles, sending some aerial off assimilate the pavement below.
Home Depot Foundation gave a $6,500 admission to the column for materials, said Wes Bates, operations abettor administrator at Home Depot.
Rapid Set administrator Doug Wade of Roy donated the accurate for a patio abaft the building. He, forth with his wife, Tracy Wade and his sister, Shayla Wade, spent several canicule basic the accurate tiles.
Wade said his aggregation does a lot of assignment with Home Depot to advice veterans and this is aloof one of abounding projects.
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The architecture was not consistently a home for veterans, said above Utah Veterans Affairs Director Terry Schow, who is additionally a affiliate of Column No. 9. It was already a Keg’s Bar, again a car dealership afore Column No. 9 bought it. It was additionally one of the filming locations for the cine “Dumb & Dumber.”
The roof had nine layers of shingles, Yeaman said. Architecture cipher alone allows two layers of shingles. He hopes accession of the new roof can activate Monday and be accomplished afore snow comes.
Danny Larsen, with Home Depot Advice Team, ripped out the aback accomplish to transform it into a wheelchair ramp, complete with handrails.
“That will accomplish it easier to get inside,” Schow said as he watched the work.
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The renovations additionally accommodate a swamp acknowledgment and new air conditioning assemblage for the aback room, Yeaman said.
“The American Legion does a lot of acceptable being for the community, so to accept our architecture nice and added defended is good,” Schow said.
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