CEREMONY WILL TOUT PLANNED HOME FOR VETS; WORK WON'T START UNTIL 2000.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
Construction won't begin until 2000 at the earliest, but supporters of a veterans home in Lancaster plan to hold a dedication ceremony Monday to keep the project fresh in the public's mind. Saying that 2000 is ``just around the next corner,'' city officials and members of the Lancaster Veterans Home Citizens Committee are inviting the public to drop by the site at Avenue I and 30th Street West for the 4 p.m. ceremony. The city is offering 22 acres on the northwest corner of the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. for the project. ``It's basically a dedication ceremony,'' said Mike Adams Mike Adams may refer to:
The proposed Lancaster facility would house about 400 veterans and employ 230 people. It would offer three levels of care, ranging from apartments - for veterans able to live independently - to a convalescent con·va·les·cent adj. Relating to convalescence. n. A person who is recovering from an illness, an injury, or a surgical operation. convalescent 1. pertaining to or characterized by convalescence. 2. hospital. State legislation signed into law last year puts Lancaster next in line for a veterans home. By law, the Lancaster home cannot be built until a veterans home in Chula Vista Chula Vista (ch  `lə), city (1990 pop. 135,163), San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1911. is completed.
The Chula Vista home is projected to be completed in February 2000. Construction of the Lancaster home could begin in late 2000, Adams said. The state also has allocated $12 million for the Lancaster site. Construction of the home is contingent upon Adj. 1. contingent upon - determined by conditions or circumstances that follow; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" contingent on, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on, contingent the federal government providing 65 percent of the project's funding, approximately $24 million. An application for the federal funding will probably be made sometime next year, Adams said. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , the citizen committee is raising money to provide amenities that state and federal funding will not cover. The idea is to provide items such as TV sets that would make the facility feel like a true home. The state has two veterans homes operating now - one in Yountville in Napa County that houses 1,125 veterans and another in Barstow. The Barstow home, which opened last year, has 247 occupants but room for 400. |
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