Graham Crisis Center receiving upgrades to parking lot

The Graham Crisis Center is receiving donations of labor and establishing funding for the repair of the parking lot at the Food Pantry and Nifty Thrifty location on Indiana St. The project will start in July and last a week for the repair process.

Zack Burkett Co. and WWW Civil Contracting studied the lot with local engineers and offered their services for the project to reconstruct the parking lot. The city of Graham, Young County and local businesses such as Rick’s Muffler Shop and Mike’s Westside Rental have also volunteered supplies and services for the project.

“They are volunteering some equipment and manpower on that,” Graham Crisis Center Executive Director Cathy Partridge said. “Zack Burkett, they deeply, deeply reduced the price of the coding that we needed so honestly the first bid that we got just having to pay for everything to give us a good place to start would be $56,000. (...) He got busy and we got that down to $16,258.”

Partridge said the project will begin Monday, July 12, and will be finished on Sunday, July 18. The resurfacing project will spread around to the donation doors at the side of the building which she said is a necessary renovation for the parking lot.

For the rest of the story, see the June 16 edition of The Graham Leader.