Kroc Center on Track, Despite Snow

Sat 27th Dec 2008 12:00 PM

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP)—A $65 million community center in
Coeur d’Alene that’s being funded largely with money from the
founders of McDonald’s fast-food restaurants is on track to open in
April.

Heavy snows haven’t upset the schedule of the Ray & Joan Kroc
Corps Community Center. Maj. John Chamness, Kroc Center executive director, says
"There’s no reason to change our schedule now."

Most of the project and its future operational costs are being
paid for from the $1.5 billion that Joan Kroc left to the Salvation
Army when she died in 2003.

Coeur d’Alene residents also contributed $6.7 million in private
donations last year for the center, what northern Idaho officials
say was the largest one-time capital campaign in the region.

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Kroc Center Hits Six Months 11/11/09
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Kroc Center Rolls Out Welcome Mat 05/07/09
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Weather Delays Kroc Center 01/19/09
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Right on Schedule 12/26/08
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