Workers begin tearing off the roof of the former Fir Lawn Lutheran Church building on the corner of 1st Avenue and Holley Road (Hwy. 228) last week. Church member Tami Ainsworth said the church is selling the building to the American Legion for use as a Legion Hall. Ainsworth said that, as a condition of the sale, the church is putting a new roof on the building, as well as doing some electrical work. GBC Construction is doing the roof, which will be “more of a house roofline,” Ainsworth said. To rebuild the original steeply pitched roof would be much more costly and the Legion didn’t particularly want the original roof restored, she said. The Legion received a conditional use permit last October to use the former church as a community space that could be used for weddings, proms, community markets, as well as Legion activities and various veterans services. Post 133 Commander Kat Sanderson-Cox informed city Planning Commission members during that proceeding that the Legion does not intend to install a full-on bar in the building.
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