New and Improved

A mid-winter disaster brings a summertime renewal at the Peggy Crosby Center.

Just like when life gives you lemons you make lemonade, when unprecedented cold temperatures cause a sprinkler pipe to burst, you remodel your space.

That’s exactly what the Center for Life Enrichment did with their offices and lecture hall in the Peggy Crosby Center. Over the winter, a pipe fitting broke on the upper floor, practically ruining the room that housed it.

Soon the walls of the Peggy Crosby Center became cascading waterfalls, and the deluge found its way through the ceiling tiles, into CLE’s lecture hall and offices, and onto the non-profit’s very expensive audio-visual equipment, chairs, floors, piano – the list goes on and on. When it became apparent that CLE’s insurance would replace the A/V equipment and chairs, and the Peggy Crosby Center could replace the carpet, half of the wall painting, and the window shades, it was clear that a complete interior makeover was the next move.

A silver lining in Peggy Crosby’s own Silver Run Falls, the Center for Life Enrichment’s new lecture hall is now operational and better than ever. Members now enjoy crystal-clear presentations from the organization’s new 85-inch TV screen (so clear in fact, that the blinds can now be left open during programs). Their new audio/visual system – compatible with both Mac and PC computers – allows participants the ability to see and hear speakers all the way from the comfortable new seating in back of the lecture hall.

“Although the water damage was a huge setback at the time, CLE has been so excited to welcome its members back to the new and improved lecture hall experience. It was time for a refresh, and the flood was just the catalyst we needed to bring CLE into modernity,” says CLE Executive Director Fallon Hovis.

by Robert E. Smith, PCC Board Chair