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Saying Goodbye to Bertha WSDOT photo
Nueces Power Equipment Hosts Open House...8
In this June 2017 photo, disassembly is revealing the complex inner workings of the machine that completed a 9,270-ft. tunnel beneath Seattle this spring.
By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT LA Ci ty Council OKs $1.5B George Lucas Museum...17
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In this April 2017 photo, tunnel workers pose with the SR 99 tunneling machine after Bertha moved into the disassembly pit near Seattle Center.
Efforts in Seattle to dismantle the custom-made tunneling machine fondly dubbed โBerthaโ are proceeding as planned with completion on schedule for September. The tunneling machine was used to carve a 1.7-mi. tunnel beneath the city of Seattle, a task that was begun in see BERTHA page 65
Officials Break Ground on U.S. Olympic Museum Por t, City OKs $1B Resor t in Chula Vista...18
Table of Contents............ 4 California Section......17-23 Paving Section...........27-35 Business Calendar..........44 Wheel Loaders, Tool Carriers & Attachments Section.......................45-64 Auction Section.........70-75 Advertisers Index.......... 74
By Eddie Pells
they say, โLetโs spend an extra day to see the rock hall,โโ Celeste said. โThe interest in the Olympic movement is even stronger COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) in a sense. Itโs maybe the single most recA groundbreaking ceremony was held on ognized brand, globally.โ June 9 for an Olympic museum that will Itโs a project more than five years in the include a Hall of Fame and make mention making that has been hit with typical fundof every athlete who has competed for the A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 9 for an ing challenges. In the end, about $49 milOlympic museum that will include a Hall of Fame and lion of the cost is being covered through U.S. team. Attending the ceremony were make mention of every athlete who has competed for private fundraising, with the rest coming Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and the U.S. team. through public bonds sold to three local banks. the United States floundered over the decades. former Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste. The Olympic Training Center draws about โI was stunned there wasnโt a proper celebra- 130,000 visitors a year. Museum officials are The United States Olympic Museum will cost $75 million and is set to open in 2019, tion of the Olympic movement here,โ said expecting their 60,000-sq.-ft. showcase to evenblocks from the United States Olympic Celeste, the project chairman who previously tually draw up to 350,000 a year, with more than Committee headquarters and a short drive from served as president of Colorado College, about half the visitors coming from outside the state. a mile north of the museum site. the Olympic Training Center. โI think the synergy youโre going to see As governor of Ohio, Celeste was key in between the Olympic Training Center and the This will be the first full-fledged Olympic museum in the United States. Lake Placid has a helping Cleveland win the contest to become museum is going to be profound,โ small museum that commemorates the two home of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He sees Hickenlooper said. Winter Games held in New York. There are similarities between that museum and this one. (This story also can be found on โPeople come to Cleveland to see the Rock & Construction Equipment Guideโs website at more than 20 Olympic museums around the world, but previous attempts to establish one in Roll Hall of Fame, and if theyโre in Cleveland, www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) ASSOCIATED PRESS