TDKA works on expanding light rail train maintenance facility to pave way for Central Corridor Line

TKDA is finishing work on the expansion of the Hiawatha Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in Minnesota's Twin Cities to serve the new Central Corridor line, expected to come online in July 2014. The $16 million expansion will make room to store and service additional trains and longer train configurations for both the Hiawatha and the Central Corridor.

With construction rapidly advancing on the Central Corridor and the arrival of the additional light rail vehicles needed to serve it, Metro Transit called for the expansion of the operations and maintenance facility in 2009. In addition, the Hiawatha Line will transition from two-car to three-car trains, and the original facility did not have the capacity to accommodate this switch. With these considerations in mind, TKDA completed design services for the expansion in December 2010, and construction commenced in June 2011.

Highlights of the expansion include a new 43,000-square-foot vehicle storage building, a 16,000-square-foot maintenance addition, a 1,200-square-foot addition to the rail control center, and the addition of a light rail vehicle lift, hoists, cranes, and a geothermal heating and cooling system. Modifications to the yard track, traction power, overhead centenary, and signal systems were also included in the project.

An area of particular interest in the age of going green is the new geothermal system. Metro Transit has embarked on an initiative to reduce its consumption of fossil fuels to reduce CO2 emissions and save on energy costs. TKDA designed a geothermal system that will both heat and cool the expanded area and portions of the existing facility. The system is expected to save Metro Transit $45,000 a year in energy costs and prevent 136 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere every year.

“The Central Corridor Line will become an integral part of the overall transit system in the Twin Cities,” says Bill Deitner, TKDA’s CEO. “We have been delighted to be a part of the team that has reintroduced rail transit to the metro area and are proud to team with Metro Transit to make the light rail system as efficient and environmentally clean as possible.”

TKDA has played a role on many of the projects involving the development of the light rail system in the Twin Cities. The company was part of the multi-firm team which designed and built the original Hiawatha Corridor Light Rail Transit Project in Minneapolis. TKDA also designed and provided construction oversight for the original light rail operations and maintenance facility and is on the team rehabilitating downtown Saint Paul’s Union Depot, the eastern terminus of the future Central Corridor Line.

With over 200 employees, TKDA is a nationwide employee-owned engineering, architecture, and planning firm headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. For more information, visit www.tkda.com.

Schnabel Engineering announces new offices, hirings, and promotions

Schnabel Engineering of Glen Allen, Virginia announces the opening of its Raleigh, North Carolina, office. The office will provide all of Schnabel’s services, with local personnel having extensive geotechnical and environmental engineering experience. Nigel Miller, PE, an associate with the firm, will manage the office. He has more than 15 years of experience in transportation, energy, and infrastructure projects, including work for North Carolina Department of Transportation, Progress Energy, and major universities in the area.

Miller has experience on highway bridges, roadway pavements, airport runways, retaining structures, highrise buildings, earth dams, energy transmission lines, and large-diameter pipelines. He has managed, reviewed, and performed design and construction phase engineering duties for projects with technical challenges such as soft soils, deep excavations, high seismic loads, landslides, dewatering, corrosion, and rock excavation.

Schnabel also announces the opening of its first New York State (NYS) office and the hiring of Dr. Gregory Daviero, PE as a principal engineer and Kevin Ruswick, CFM, PE as an associate engineer.

Schnabel’s NYS office is located in the Capital District region, approximately 20 miles north of Albany in Clifton Park, New York.  The office will provide dam engineering services, with local personnel having extensive NYS experience and specializing in dam and water resources engineering.  Schnabel’s geotechnical, geostructural, and tunnel engineering services will also be available to our NYS clients. 

The office will be managed by Dr. Gregory Daviero who for over 20 years has applied his expertise to a wide range of water resource engineering, hydraulic design, and hydraulic and hydrologic analyses for the benefit of state, federal, municipal, and industrial clients. A resident of Niskayuna, New York, Dr. Daviero has an A.S. in Mathematics and Science from Hudson Valley Community College, a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Hydraulics and Water Resources from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Daviero is joined by Ruswick who has 18 years of experience in water resources and dam engineering.  He provides a combination of education and experience in all phases of water resources related projects and proficiency in state-of-the-art hydrologic and hydraulic modeling.  A resident of Clifton Park, New York, Ruswick earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.S. in Water Resources Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.  

Lachel & Associates, a subsidiary of Schnabel Engineering, welcomes Kumar Bhattarai, PE to the firm. Bhattarai brings 18 years of experience in design, risk assessment, project management, and procurement management for tunnel and large infrastructure projects in the United States, Canada, Russia, and the Far East.  His experience includes work on many phases of transportation, rail, and water/wastewater tunnel projects, including the Washington Dulles International Airport Automated People Mover System; the Canada Line Rapid Transit Public Private Partnership (P-3) project; railway and highway tunnel projects between Adler and Krasnaya (Sochi), Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics; and the Westside CSO tunnel project in Portland, Oregon.

Bhattarai has served as design engineer, design manager, resident engineer, and technical specialist for these complex projects. He has provided concept and feasibility studies, preliminary and final design, constructability reviews, cost estimates, design reports, qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, engineering support during construction, and construction inspection and management. Bhattarai received his Master's degree from the University of Hong Kong and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas, Washington, and British Columbia.  He is based in Lachel’s Dallas, Texas, office.

Schnabel's Rockville, Maryland office announces the promotion of Dr. Mohammed Nasim, P.E. to senior associate of the firm. Nasim is the Operations and Business Development Manager for Schnabel’s geostructural group in the Maryland office.

Nasim has field, project engineering, and management experience for a variety of projects in the United States, Far East, and Southeast Asia. He specializes in numerical modeling of soil behavior, slope stability, recycled materials, geosynthetic application, ground improvement, geostructural analyses and design, shallow and deep foundations, and groundwater management. He has performed site-specific seismic hazard assessments for variety of projects, including dams, waterfront structures, embankments and bridges, commercial buildings/stadiums, and U.S. government buildings abroad. Nasim has also worked on several research projects with concentration on soil behavior and soil-structure interactions under static and dynamic loading. 

An employee-owned company, Schnabel employs more than 300 in offices coast to coast. Schnabel specializes in geotechnical, geostructural, dam, and tunnel engineering as well as environmental, geophysical, geosciences, construction monitoring, and resident engineering services. For more information, visit schnabel-eng.com.

Colorado State University offers two new online Master's of Engineering degrees

Colorado State University OnlinePlus announces two new Master’s of Engineering degrees to meet the needs of today’s workplace. The Master’s of Engineering degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering Management have both been designed with industry input and are taught by faculty on the forefront of engineering research.

“Electrical and computer engineers are in demand across virtually every industry, allowing students to pair their passion with this advanced education,” says Dr. Tony Maciejewski, department head and ECE professor.

As one of the few online graduate degrees in this discipline, this program features areas of focus, including computer engineering, power and energy Engineering, and systems engineering.

The new online Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with an Engineering Management Specialization features a curriculum that blends engineering processes with business elements to give students the combination of management concepts and technical focus. The curriculum follows the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Knowledge Base standards and covers concepts in engineering project management and maintenance; business analysis, communication, finance, and marketing; and systems engineering foundations and architecture.

To learn more about these degree programs, visit www.online.colostate.edu/degrees/electrical-computer-engineering orwww.online.colostate.edu/degrees/engineering-management for faculty bios, course descriptions, registration dates, and more. Contact Michael Macklin at CSU OnlinePlus with specific questions, 970-491-7583.

Colorado State University OnlinePlus programs and educational opportunities, offered through the Division of Continuing Education, support the University's land-grant mission by providing graduate and undergraduate degrees, professional development training, certificate programs, online credit and noncredit courses, and industry-specific training online and at learning centers across the Front Range. For more information, visit www.online.colostate.edu or call 970-491-5288.

New profile posted: As a mechanical engineering professor, Shanon Reckinger researches ways to improve ocean modeling and crusades for women in engineering

Shanon Reckinger

STEMming the Tide

In a dual role, the mechanical engineering professor at Fairfield University aims to improve computational methods for modeling oceans and climate while she advocates for women in engineering.

By Tom Gibson

As a mechanical engineering student, Shanon Reckinger could’ve pursued a conventional career of designing cars, airplanes, or some other product in a manufacturing and industrial setting. Or she could’ve steered toward designing MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) and HVAC systems for buildings, like many consulting engineers do. “None of that interested me. I really liked working on projects that had more of a societal impact, and that was really natural with ocean modeling because most of the work is done to further understand the climate and climate change,” she relates.

A unique and noble career choice indeed, but the interesting part is that it may involve another factor besides helping society. “I think that’s really common for most women,” Reckinger says. She would know about this from her vantage point as the Clare Boothe Luce Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Fairfield University in Connecticut, a position that has her advocating for women in engineering.

Across the nation, growth in the number of women enrolling in engineering curriculums has stagnated and shown inconsistencies. For example, Fairfield’s Mechanical Engineering Department has 55 freshmen, and 8 are women. “That’s pretty low,” Reckinger says. “It’s very discipline specific. Some of the engineering disciplines like civil, biomedical, environmental, chemical are really popular with women. Lots of places you can find a fifty-fifty split, but for disciplines like mechanical engineering or electrical or computer/software engineering, the ratio is still really off.” Why? “There are still not many women in faculty positions in those disciplines. I think it’s hard for female students to connect, and sometimes they might feel like they’re not in the right place because they’re so different from everyone around them.”

But Reckinger doesn’t think we should focus just on increasing the percentage of women in engineering. She acknowledge that there may be times a woman is exposed to science and engineering and fully understands the possibilities but just doesn’t have an interest in it. “I don’t want women to be scared or uncomfortable or unwelcome. Or anyone, because there are many minority groups that are underrepresented in engineering,” as she puts it. “I really enjoy being a role model and just encouraging everyone to find their path in life.”

Reckinger, 28, grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and her father was a civil engineer.“I always liked math and physics in high school,” she recalls, and her guidance counselors helped her select a college that offered engineering. This led her to the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she tried engineering. “I really liked it.”

Then Reckinger further narrowed her career choice. “I really like the breadth of mechanical engineering, and it’s also the field that has fluids, which I really like because of its strong math and physics,” she explains. St. Thomas didn’t have any fluids courses when she went there, “but I had little peeks of it here and there, and then I took it my first year of graduate school. That’s when I really started to get into it.” She got her M.S. in mechanical engineering and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Her advisor in graduate school specialized in applying computational methods to fluids and showed her a project he was working on, Reckinger recalls. “When I saw it, it was by far the most interesting of the ones I had seen.”

This sampling of Reckinger’s ocean modeling work shows a simulation of the 2010 Chile Tsunami.

Ocean modeling requires a strong fluids background, and this in turn requires a strong math and physics background. “I was taking a ton of applied math courses. Then there’s a ton of programming,” Reckinger recalls. “I became familiar with large parallel machines and computing. I had to also get the general ocean knowledge versus general fluids – what’s different about the ocean; how do the equations change?”

Most of Reckinger’s research focuses on developing advanced numerical techniques to improve the accuracy and efficiency of ocean models. “You change these equations that are analytic in such a way that you can solve them on the computer. There are all these numerical methods that have to be formulated to do that,” she says. “I’m improving methods that can be used in some of these big ocean models used at the lab.”

Reckinger says she sees it as filling a need. “There’s a general mechanical engineering fluids CFD community, and then there’s this totally separate ocean community, and they don’t always share information. The general fluids area is much further advanced in their numerics than the ocean community. That was part of the motivation for the projects I worked on.” The gap is closing. “The ocean models used for the last 50 years are considering these new methods that have been used for quite awhile now in the other community.”

With her doctoral thesis entitled "Adaptive Wavelet-Based Ocean Circulation Modeling," Reckinger takes an integrated approach for modeling common ocean phenomena such as tsunamis, boundary currents, and sea ice. Her research has taken her to the Los Alamos National Research Lab in New Mexico and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. At Los Alamos, she worked with a researcher doing ocean modeling in an effort to simulate the entire global climate.

After getting her doctoral degree, Reckinger conducted a full national search to find a faculty position. She sought a teaching school but also wanted to do research, and “I’ve always wanted to live on the east coast,” she adds. Having landed at Fairfield, she’s excited about the Clare Booth Luce program and the funding and opportunities it presents. She teaches fluid dynamics and numerical methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including courses in numerical methods, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, and gas dynamics.

The Henry Luce Foundation's Clare Boothe Luce Program awarded Fairfield a $404,439 grant to create the professorship Reckinger holds. It was earmarked for mechanical engineering and covers three years of salary, three years of benefits, and five years of support for a career development fund.

Reckinger (second from left) is mentoring mechanical engineering students on a project to collect rainwater from a campus building roof for watering lawns and shrubs on campus as part of a senior design course taught by Shahrokh Etemad (left).

In Clare Boothe Luce's bequest establishing this program, she sought "to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach" in science, mathematics, and engineering. The 21-year-old program has become the single most significant source of private support for women in those fields. Clare Boothe Luce was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut as well as the widow of Henry R. Luce, the magazine publisher who created icons such as Time, Fortune, Life, and Sports Illustrated.

Reckinger works in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines with engineering faculty and colleagues in the College of Arts & Sciences. She works closely with female students in the School of Engineering and elsewhere at Fairfield. “I just try to connect with them personally and have them be comfortable around me. Since we have such a small school and small population of women, I’m doing it more on a personal level,” she says.

As Reckinger puts it, “I’m trying to give them some perspective and broaden their view of these fields and have them not think of mechanical engineers as one particular type of person in one particular field. It’s so broad. It’s just about making people feel comfortable and making them understand that a variety of personalities and experience levels and perspectives are welcome in the field.”

Her advocating work has Reckinger getting involved with a WISTEM (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program, and she wants to start a Society for Women in Engineering chapter at Fairfield. She interacts with high schoolers that come to Fairfield and carries out community events like the Discovery Museum and an event for Women’s History Month at nearby Bridgeport. A camp on Fairfield’s campus for high school women has them learn about science and engineering, and Reckinger has a group of five or so from Bridgeport do a research project with her for two weeks.

In the final analysis, Reckinger says, “I really just want people to do whatever they like. I don’t like them to be scared away for the wrong reasons. Maybe you just don’t know exactly what interests you and how to apply it. I feel like that’s part of the faculty’s job to explore that with the students and let them think about it.”

North Carolina State Zia Lecture on Panama Canal expansion draws a record 800 attendees

Three leaders behind the remarkable Panama Canal expansion project discussed their roles in one of the 21st century's most challenging engineering ventures before hundreds of engineers at a North Carolina State University lecture event on Sept. 24.

The presentations by Alberto Alemán Zubieta, former CEO of the Panama Canal Authority; Michael Newbery, locks design manager with MWH Global; and Joseph Cazares, deputy program manager and locks construction manager with CH2M Hill, offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the $5.25 billion Panama Canal expansion project.

The expansion adds a new set of locks at the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that will double the canal's capacity, allowing more and larger ships to use the 100-year-old waterway. Construction is expected to finish in 2015.

The event, held at the Raleigh Marriott City Center in downtown Raleigh, NC, was part of the Paul Zia Distinguished Lecture Series in Civil Engineering and Construction, an annual NC State event featuring prominent engineers in the field. The lecture series is presented by the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, the Constructed Facilities Laboratory, and the NC State Engineering Foundation.

Many of those who packed the venue — the 800 people who attended were a record for the event — were NC State engineering alumni.

Alemán was the longtime administrator of the Panama Canal Authority, the autonomous agency that manages the Panama Canal and the expansion project. His 16 years of canal leadership included overseeing the 1999 transfer of control of the canal from the United States to the Panamanian government. He stepped down in early September to return to private practice in project management.

Newbery has worked on the Panama Canal expansion program for 13 years. Since 2009, he has been the design manager for the MWH Global-led design joint venture on the third set of locks project. He has more than 30 years of engineering and design experience, including more than 25 years with MWH Global. His work has included designing, managing and being the principal in charge for major lock and dam projects on four continents.

Cazares is deputy program manager for the Panama Canal expansion program and construction manager for the new locks portion of the contract. He is a licensed engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the design and construction of billion-dollar public facility and infrastructure programs. His experience has included transportation, water-wastewater, and energy projects for both public and private organizations, and he specializes in large-scale program management assignments involving complex schedule, contractual, funding, and project phasing elements.

The Zia Distinguished Lecture Series was established in 2002 to honor the accomplishments of Dr. Paul Zia, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at NC State. Zia is a leading figure in the fields of concrete and structural engineering and served as head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at NC State for nine years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Previous Zia Lectures have featured Leslie Robertson, who led the structural design of the former World Trade Center; David Goodyear, the chief engineer behind the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge; and Bart Riberich and Lee Slade, who helped develop the technology behind some of North America’s most advanced retractable-roof sports stadiums.

Road warriors: NJIT students probe transportation issues

One of the most productive research areas at NJIT is transportation, drawing expertise from such diverse areas as architecture, civil engineering, management, and electrical engineering. A major component of the university’s outreach programs addressing questions of economic development, quality of life, and productivity in the region, transportation research was a major theme at the recent Dana Knox Student Research Showcase. Student researchers included:

Eugene Maina, doctoral student in transportation engineering, investigated the relationship between capacity and safety on freeways in New Jersey. He found that the number of crashes increased with the road capacity, while lower-capacity roads had a lower crash rate indicating that congestion may result in reduced speeds and a lower number of accidents. Associate Professor Janice Daniel is his advisor.

Civil Engineering’s Bridge Scour Team – Joshua Tooker, master’s student, seniors Shu Yi Tham, Melissa Salsano, and Piotr Wiszowaty led by Professor John Schuring – presented two projects dealing with the erosion around bridges that can cause damage and even failure. Tham presented the team’s survey of scour design and evaluation methods currently used by transportation agencies. Tooker presented findings that current methods tend to overestimate scour which leads to excessively conservative design. The team’s recommendations include new procedures for scour evaluation and a Decision Matrix Model to allow NJDOT to prioritize existing bridges for remediation and better predict scour for new bridges.

Zhaodong Huang, PhD student in transportation engineering advised by Associate Professor Rongfang Liu, developed a new method for measuring the performance of Automated People Movers (APMs) in airports. He proposes a composite index that incorporates system availability, system safety, customer satisfaction and utilization rate to be used to measure the engineering efficiency  of APM systems in airports.

Sim Liu, doctoral student in transportation engineering, developed a Drainage Information, Analysis and Mapping (DIAM) system to evaluate New Jersey’s aging stormwater drainage infrastructure. Professor Jay Meegoda is his advisor.

Manvi Saran, master’s student in environmental engineer advised by Professor Taha Marhaba, studied ways in which NJDOT could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their highway maintenance and construction projects.

Hifeng Yu, doctoral student in transportation, developed a maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) to deal with winter weather events in New Jersey. His advisor is Professor I. J. Chien.

Entech Engineering donates services to solar thermal project at Reading, PA homeless shelter

Solar Opportunity on the Horizon

By Courtney H. Diener-Stokes

Reading Eagle correspondent

Reading Eagle: Tyler Sizemore

Above, from left, Modesto Fiume, president of Opportunity House; Bob Elwell, HVAC manager for Energy Systems Installation; and Tom Green, lead project engineer, on the roof of Opportunity House, 420 N. Second St. where solar collector panels hopefully will be installed. Elwell and Green are both members of Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association, which has started a campaign to raise money to fund a solar hot water heating system at Opportunity House. Right, a diagram explaining how the proposed solar system would work.

Since its inception in 2005, the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association has sponsored community service projects centered on providing renewable energy solutions to non-profit organizations. This year Opportunity House, 430 N. Second St., was determined to be the ideal recipient.

"We felt that if you look at Reading, it's the poorest city in America," said Bill Hennessy, vice president of MAREA and owner of Berks Solar. "Opportunity House takes care of the poorest of the poor and we thought, 'what can we do to help them out?'"

Opportunity House is a multi-service organization that focuses on improving the lives of children, adults and families with the aim to help them become self-sufficient. Services include emergency shelter, supportive housing, meals, 24-hour-a-day childcare and advocacy for victims of child abuse.

MAREA is a non-profit organization dedicated to informing and educating the public about renewable energy production, energy efficiency and sustainable living.

When MAREA took into consideration the energy demands on Opportunity House to function on a daily basis as well as factoring in the cost involved in various renewable energy solutions, it determined the organization could best benefit from a solar hot water (solar thermal) system.

"What makes solar hot water great for Opportunity House is they have a huge demand for hot water for the shelter, day care" and daily operations, Hennessy said. "The more hot water you use, the more solar will benefit you."

He estimates Opportunity House will save approximately $4,000 annually with the solar thermal system.

"About $6,000 is what their gas bill is right now," he said. "Every dollar they don't spend on heating water they can spend on services for the poor and homeless."

Determining that Opportunity House had solid roof space in addition to ample solar access were more reasons MAREA felt it was the ideal candidate for a solar hot water system.

Modesto Fiume, president of Opportunity House, sees the project as a great opportunity to partner on a shared vision.

"It ties in with our focus as an organization about being sustainable," Fiume said. "It will also help us save some operating costs each month."

He also added it will complete a goal he has been working towards for approximately six years. Since that time Opportunity House has successfully accomplished building a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified technology center for children ages 4 to 13.

Hennessy said the solar thermal system would consist of 18 roof-mounted solar collectors, each 4 feet by 10 feet.

He explained that a pump circulates a propylene glycol and water mixture to the rooftop to the collectors where the sun will heat it and then it returns to a heat exchanger and heats the water in the storage tank. The heat from the that water tank is then transferred to a second heat exchanger and warms the incoming cold water when needed. The tanks will hold at least 2,500 gallons of water.

A backup water tank provides hot water on cloudy days or during the winter months.

"The natural gas backup is making up the difference if water isn't hot enough," Hennessy said.

After considering various hot water systems for the project, it was determined a pressurized glycol system would be most suitable.

MAREA anticipates installation of the system, which is scheduled to happen in the fall, will take two weeks.

The cost of the solar thermal project is estimated to be $110,0000, but thanks to the help of donations in labor and materials the cost currently stands at approximately $50,000.

"We go out in the public to raise funds," said Hennessy, who added no government funding will be used for the project.

MAREA launched their fund drive in May. Fundraising is being coordinated by Pier Ignozzi-Shaffer of Reading.

In addition to their fundraising efforts, MAREA has been successful in securing the donation of services and materials necessary to aid in completion of the project.

Individuals in the renewable energy field have been eager to get on board to offer their skills and resources to design, manage and successfully complete the project, which has led to a solid lineup of local leaders in the field coming on board.

MAREA board member, Tom Green, a professional engineer and certified energy manager, will be lead engineer on the project. Green is also the director of campus energy services at Kutztown University.

Bob Elwell, heating, ventilation and air conditioning manager of Energy Systems & Installation, in Jonestown, Lebanon County, is on board as well.

"The company will be donating its services as contractor for the installation," Hennessy said.

"It's a great project," Elwell said at a recent monthly MAREA meeting. "We want to do our part."

Elwell's son, Bryan, is manager of Hickory Ridge Solar, District Township, which joins the project as a supplier. It distributes UMA Solar products.

"The company will provide the solar collectors and other materials for the project at cost or at a greatly reduced rate," Hennessy said.

In addition, Entech Engineering, 4 S. Fourth St., is donating engineering and drawing services for the permit application.

"These companies are sharing their resources with the community," Hennessy said. "We hope this generosity is contagious and we are looking forward to the contributions necessary to complete the installation."

Contact Courtney Diener-Stokes: realestate@readingeagle.com.

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