2 - Morrisville and Preston Progress, Thursday, March 27,1997
New center takes members’ Rep. Mosley fUes bill fot library funding
health, fitness to heart
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set up individual exercise routines
for members. The mens and ladies
locker rooms will feature steam
rooms.
"Everything is going to be top of
the line,” Stewart said, as he con
ducted a tour of the new facility.
"We have the right equipment, and
the right people to do the job."
The new flmess center overlooks
three pools which are still under
construction. On the left side of the
building, a Mediterranean-style
restaurant features an open kitchen
so that members can watch their
food being prepared; a screened-in
porch and patio with 48 seats over
looks the driving range,
A snack bar window opens out to
the pool area. Instead of 200 seats
at the old pool, there will be 700
when the new complex opens in
May. It will feature a recreational
pool with a large water slide, a tot
play area with jets, bubblers and
water sprayers, and an eight-lane
competition pool where lessons,
swim team practices and water
aerobics classes will be held. When
no programs are held there, use will
be limited to adults.
Stewart got involved with the fit
ness and aquatics programs after
serving as food services manager
for Preston wood for six years. Last
year he served as acting aquatics
director and acting athletic director,
and held the informal title of con
struction supervisor.
Stewart and his wife decided to
leave their faster paced life in
Washington, D.C. and come to
North Carolina, partly to be nearer
his wife’s family in South Carolina.
Stewart attended college at Wil
liam and Mary in Virginia and
worked in taverns in Colonial Wil
liamsburg during those days. Arriv-
Tending peach
orchid hard work
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stings, spider bites and .snakes
hanging out of the trees!" he added.
Nature isn’t necessarily the or
chard’s worst enemy. "Sometimes
strangers will just walk into the or
chard and help themselves! To
them, I say, ‘Either put them down,
or pay five dollars a piece for
them!’ I wouldn’t mind giving a
couple of peaches to a person if
they asked, but just helping them
selves isn’t the way to get anything
from me!"
ing in the Raleigh area with no job
prospects, Stewart answered an ad
for the job in the Prestonwood
kitchen to get him started while he
thought about what he wanted to
do.
He had been a Systems Analyst
with ATP Corp. in D.C. for two
years where he designed and tested
software for the airline industry. He
soon j-ealized, "I’m more of a
people person than a machine per
son. I knew everybody in every
cubicle there."
Working for Prestonwood,
"there’s a gratification you get from
pleasing people...if they had a nice
dinner or enjoyed their day at the
pool," Stewart said.
His degree was in international
relations, a fitting subject for the
son of a U.S. Foreign Services dip
lomat. Stewart grew up in Central
and South America, attended high
school in Copenhagen and visited
Australia often during his college
years.
Besides balancing long hours at
the country club with home life -
wife, Julie, and son, Alec, 16
months - he is working on his club
manager certification. He studies
areas such as turf maintenance,
aquatics, government regulations,
including OSHA standards, and
food and beverage regulations.
"You have to keep up with the
changes," he said. He also en
courages his employees, from the
fimess director to the aquatics
directcff to the chef, to join their
trade organizations.
He will oversee a staff of 35, and
is still looking to hire a few more
wait staff, cooks and aquatics pro
gram staff. "We offer great bene
fits," he said, including free meals,
and golf on Mondays.
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thousand dollars won’t build one
and run one. We need to have mere
to work with than a $25,000 ap
propriation. That won’t get you
much. We’ve got to have some
commitments from some other
areas," referring to Wake County
Library System participation.
The chamber had requested the
"bookmobile” mobile library from
the county library system about two
years ago.
"We asked if it would stop a few
limes a week, either at the Morris
ville Elementary School or the
town hall, so that people wouldn’t
have to drive so far to a library,"
Lech said. At the time, there was
no money in the county coffers to
do that, and the bookmobiles were
needed in the inner city.
"We didn’t get very far, other
than that they said when monies
were available, they would
reconsider," Lech said.
"I absolutely support the idea of a
local library," said Commissioner
Mark Silver-Smith. "We need it so
the older folks in the community
would be able to walk to it. We
have an older community that can
not get in a car and drive to Apex."
Mayor Margaret Broadwell sug
gested that the library could either
be housed in the existing police sta
tion building, after the new build
ing near town hall is completed
around August, or in the former
town hall building if the chamber
moved to another building.
The chamber of commerce is
using half of the building, which
originally housed the Morrisville
Christian Church. The other half of
the building has been condemned.
Commissioners disagree on
whether to renovate the budding
for its' historical value or knock it
down and build something else on
the site.
Town Manager David Hodgkins
said he has checked with in
spectors. "A total rebuild of the for
mer town hall would be an
astronomical amount of money," he
said, although the historical value
of the building is significant.
Commissioner Leavy Barbee
said, "We need to keep a few older
places here to represent Morris
ville." He referred to the "nostal
gia" of the building. Commissioner
Phyllis Newnam said it would be
better to destroy the building and
build a new building on the site.
Lech said the building is a
wooden building and might not
provide fire protection for library
books as well as the cinder-block
police station building. "We could
use the police station building
temporarily," Lech said, "until
monies would be available to build
either a new facility or space to be
found in some other building.
"I don’t know what we would use
the $25,000 for, if it would be used
for a part-time librarian or for book
acquisition," Lech added.
Mayor Broadwell said that al
though the space in the police sta
tion building is small, the library
could hook up with the county li
brary system through computers,
and people could reserve books and
do research with computers.
"That would be a more usable
way for the space. But all of this is
just dreaming at this point," she
said.
She suggested having newspapers
and magazines and basic research
books in the facility, and the ability
to reserve books and pick them up
a day or two later ^'ter couriers
bring them from other facilities.
Sauls disagrees with the idea. "I
really see having to use that build
ing at least for a while for staff, un
til we can build an annex to the
town hall. We have an engineer
now that’s crammed in a closet. We
don’t have any room down there
for the professional people they
need."
He added, "There’s virtually no
parking there. At such time as we
are able to do it, it will need to be a
nice facility. And we are going to
have to have county participation."
Moore of the library system said,
"We have plans eventually for a li
brary in Morrisville in our long-
range capital improvement plan.
We have not set a date on that. It
could be a long way down the road.
I don’t know how this would help
or hinder that."
The bill, House Bill 383, has been
referred to the Appropriations
Committee. The money, if ap
proved, would be awarded July 1.
"I’ll just push it all I can, because
it’s an educational need," Ms.
Mosely said. "It’s something the
entire town and area of Morrisville
can use, to enhance education, to
have somewhere to go."
Ms. Mosely acknowledged that
the seed money would not produce
a library. "But maybe the town
could get more money from library
board. This is at least a beginning,"
she said.
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