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No,Laser engraving and laser customkeychain for materials like metal, it's nothing new coming to the long-vacant property, but instead, Zyla's is being used to park the numerous cars associated with the construction project that has begun on Wire Road for a new Kingdom Hall, the worship place for Jehovah's Witnesses.

After two years of, at times highly contentious, negotiations with the town, the site work has officially begun in the old corn field at 59 Wire Road.

The parking lot,Laser engraving and laser customkeychain for materials like metal, a couple miles down the road from where the actual construction is taking place is temporary during the project as there is limited parking on site at the moment, according to Ron Hansen, assistant to the New Hampshire and Vermont Regional Building Committee for the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hansen, who is one of the overseers of the project, said they have about 35-50 volunteers a day right now getting the site work done for the project. When the actual build is taking place, scheduled right now for the last three weekends of June and the first weekend of July, that will spike to a couple hundred a day.

Right now, it doesn't look like much over on Wire Road. It's a large dirt lot with lots of heavy equipment being used to lay the ground work of the project C things like electrical fit ups, laying the swailing system for the site drainage and preparing the pads where parking and the actual building will sit.

Hansen said he's talked personally with Bob Walles, one of neighbors across the street who led the charge last year in a lawsuit against the Merrimack Zoning Board of Adjustment over the board's reversal of it's original decision to deny the Kingdom Hall construction. Walles said the suit was over the process the ZBA took in reversing its original decision and not specifically against the church.

The lawsuit was settled last fall after the Jehovah's Witness Congregation indicated its intention to intervene in the lawsuit, and things seem to have been harmonious between neighbors and the church since the settlement.

Walles said on Tuesday that so far the construction, which really only got underway two days ago, has been running smoothly, and the church has been mindful of the neighbors, especially when it comes to keeping traffic and an abundance of vehicles from coming to and from the site each day. A couple of shuttles take volunteers between the site and the parking lot on Daniel Webster Highway.

Hansen, a longtime Merrimack resident owner of Hansen's Outdoor Services, said the project is using local materials as much as possible, including having gotten all of the site work materials from C.S.S.I Contractors in Merrimack.

"It's been a very long time,You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth carparkmanagementsystem truck Descriptions. a very long road," Hansen said. "We've tried to cooperate and remain patient and it's paying off."

While they still have several weeks to go ahead of them, Hansen said the build for these projects generally goes very smoothly and he's confident by the time they are done with the modest 45-by-90-foot one-story church and the landscaping they have planned for the site, the church will fit in nicely on the residential road.

The Business Improvement District is planning to put in Welcome to Downtown signs at four locations that will mark the districts approximate boundaries, said Executive Director Alex Krogh-Grabbe.

The locations include the intersections of Northampton Road and South Pleasant Street, Main and Triangle streets, Amity and North Prospect streets and Triangle and East Pleasant streets.

Meanwhile, the new trolleys that will shuttle visitors for free to and around downtown will be in service for the first time this weekend in coordination with an Ultimate tournament being held at the University of Massachusetts and the high school. The trolleys will be available primarily during events but also regularly during the academic year.

University of Massachusetts history professor Joyce Avrech Berkman will be honored Friday with a series of presentations on womens history at the Cape Cod Lounge in the Student Union.

Berkman, a member of the faculty for 48 years, has in recent years directed the Valley Womens History Collaborative that oversees research, oral history and documentation projects of feminist and lesbian activism in the Pioneer Valley. She also coordinated an interdisciplinary docudrama, Menace to Society, on the history of reproductive rights in Massachusetts.

The keynote speaker for the retirement celebration is Berkmans former colleague, Kathy Peiss, who will speak on How to Change the World through Womens History. Other presentations will run from 10 a.Compare prices and buy all brands of luggagetag for home power systems and by the pallet.m. to 4:30 p.m. and be followed by a reception in the Graduate Student Reading Room in the Campus Center and a buffet dinner in the Cape Cod Lounge.