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Construction of Christ Chapel continues without complication By | Kaylee McGhee CIty News Editor Construction of Christ Chapel continues to progress smoothly, with the walls now going up. After four years of extensive planning and fundraising, Chief Administrative Officer Rich Péwé said the chapel is on schedule to be completed by commencement 2019. With a few exceptions, the project has advanced smoothly. “Of course there have been delays and setbacks, but adjustments are constantly being made by the team to overcome those problems and stay on schedule,” Péwé said in an email. “Sometimes that requires creativity and working out of sequence. But there has been nothing that is a major issue.” The construction team, led by Weigand Construction and Mark Schollenberger, who oversaw renovations to the Roche Sports Complex in 2014, has thought through every obstacle that might arise, Péwé told The Collegian in a past interview. The team is working to move quickly and
efficiently but in the safest way possible. Architect Duncan Stroik, the mind behind the blueprints, said it is thrilling to watch his blueprints come to life. Stroik said his team sought to capture the essence of Hillsdale College and its mission. “Every project of ours has unique requirements, and at Hillsdale, there is a great love of the Anglo-American architectural tradition as well as a love of your campus,” Stroik said in an email. “We have sought to bring those two things together in order to design a chapel that we hope will look like it has always been there while being strikingly innovative.” The construction team recently finished connecting the chapel to campus heating and air conditioning by creating a utility tunnel. Stroik said this took careful planning and ingenuity, since the tunnel was constructed while allowing water, sewer, and other existing lines to bypass each other. “Things were discovered about Grewcock during construction — as they always are,” Stroik said in an email.
“Solutions were developed to solve the issues. Very creative, very exciting, and eventually, very hidden.” Péwé said no significant changes to Stroik’s original plans have been made. Once completed, Christ Chapel will have room for up to 1,400 people, providing space for convocations; orchestral, choir, and other musical performances; major lectures; and commencement. Stroik said he is most looking forward to the chapel’s circular portico with a brick dome — one of the first of its kind in 50 years — and the nave with 25-foot Doric limestone columns, which will support the balconies and roof. “In their simplicity and ruggedness, they give a gravitas to the house of God,” Stroik said. Péwé praised Stroik and his architectural team, saying his eye for detail has aided the project. “Duncan Stroik and his team are talented architects,” Péwé said. “They consistently take great care to get the details just right. The quality and the detail of his drawings
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and those of his team are exemplary.” President Larry Arnn said anticipation continues to build as construction pro-
gresses. Coupled with renderings, the chapel is becoming impressive to visitors and friends of the college as it takes shape, he said.
“So far, the construction is ugly,” Arnn said in an email. “But the first hints of excitement emerge.”
Mayoral candidates pledge different paths to paved roads By | Katherine Scheu
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Associate Editor A drive down Hillsdale’s most crumbling roads may no longer feel like a sudden, unsolicited stint on an old, wooden rollercoaster. Mayoral candidates current Mayor Scott Sessions and City Councilman Adam Stockford have pledged to fix Hillsdale’s disintegrating roads, but their solutions take different paths to even asphalt and patched potholes. Sessions said he will continue to search out grants and use tax dollars to fix Hillsdale’s infrastructure crisis with immediacy, but Stockford said economic development, supplemented by grants, will beget city funding for the project that costs $1 million per mile. Four-time City Councilman Bruce Sharp said his years in office have taught him the severity of the road problem, which developed when the upkeep budget was cut about 20 years ago and street maintenance stopped, according to Sessions. “The roads are the No. 1 issue in this town,” Sharp said. “We’ve ignored the streets for many years, and it’s going to take time and money to fix them.” Sessions and Stockford agreed with Sharp’s analysis. Under the mayor’s direction, the city has put aside more than $900,000 intended for the roads, which will be spent in the next fiscal year. This money compris-
es $300,000 saved from the which is the erosion of our previous year, $300,000 from industrial base.” the three-millage property tax Stockford said he likes to passed in June, and $300,000 explain his approach to the from a pilot program in which infrastructure problem using the city receives money in lieu an analogy of household of taxes, Sessions said. finances. “Since I’ve been on council and mayor, we’ve done three streets, three projects,” Sessions said. “We have put money toward that. But this is sustainable funding for streets.” Sessions credits City Manager David Mackie for the work he has Vine Street is one road in the city that need done to secure repairs. Brendan Clarey | Collegian Hillsdale grant “If your driveway is in termoney from the state. In addirible shape and you’re worktion to the grants he obtained ing a minimum wage job, you for the Dawn Theater, Rough Draft, and Stock’s Mill, Mack- can borrow money to fix it, you can steal, you can beg for ie has submitted Hillsdale for money, but the only respona $1.8 million grant through sible way you’re going to get Infrastructure Capacity Enthat fixed is to build your skill hancement. set to make your earning poTying grants and taxes together is Sessions’ overall phi- tential higher,” Stockford said. “If you’re working for $20 an losophy about roads — they hour, that driveway isn’t an require immediate action. amount that’s unsurpassable.” “We can’t wait any longer,” Stockford said he sees he said. “We can’t wait. We economic opportunity in food have to do something.” processing such as ColdwaStockford, however, is a ter’s new processing plant, little more comfortable being Clemens Food Group, which patient. “For years I’ve been saying, provided the city 600 jobs. He suggested that Hillsdale and I believe this to be true, that the roads are a secondary should try to attract similar issue,” Stockford said. “They’re businesses to come to town. He amended that, right now, a symptom of a bigger probthe city’s economy does not lem: economic stagnation,
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appeal to such enterprises. “They went there, because they wanted to be in Michigan where all the hog farming is, and that’s right here in Hillsdale County,” Stockford said. “I’m not sure if we could have gotten them to come to Hillsdale. I’m not sure if that was a possibility or not.” Stockford’s goal to invigorate the economy did contribute to his vote against the three-millage income tax, but he said his main concern was that there was an option to put the increase on the ballot and let the public vote on it. The council, however, passed the measure unilaterally. “I do think that the current administration has been very focused on trying to do something about these streets,” he said. “They are thinking out of the box, they are. But I don’t think a unilateral tax increase on the majority of the residents was a smart way to build trust.” Grants, Stockford said, would still play a part in his move to fix and maintain Hillsdale streets. He, like Sessions, also congratulated City Manager Mackie in the work he has done to secure state money for Hillsdale. But that doesn’t change Stockford’s conviction: “The only responsible way to not only fix the streets but also, in the long run, to maintain them is through aggressive economic development. The rest will fall into place.” Look for The Hillsdale Collegian