NEWMAN A $400,000 facelift for the L.J. Newman Memorial Building is well under way and on schedule for completion.

The project will provide a floor-to-ceiling renovation of the 1970s-era community center located on Orestimba Road at the northwest corner of the city.

Work on the renovation started several weeks ago and the contractor, Hilmar-based Harris Builders, is scheduled to be finished at the end of February, reported city staff members Stephanie Ocasio and Mike Maier, who spearheaded the project.

That will allow a month to take care of finishing touches and for the city to finish the aspects of the project that it is doing in-house, such as cleanup and landscape installation.

The renovation has shifted from demolition to reconstruction, Ocasio and Maier explained during a recent tour of the facility. Outside, the initial coat of stucco had been applied to the new facade with a color coat to follow.

Inside, tiles had been stripped from the floor to reveal the concrete beneath, restroom walls had been reconfigured, plumbing infrastructure is in place and the installation of new ceiling panels and lighting has started.

New windows have been installed around the upper reaches of the walls, and the vertical bricks which partially blocked the old windows were removed to provide more natural light inside. Broken window blocks have been replaced as well.

All the major demolition and infrastructure work is done, Ocasio and Maier stated.

The renovation will blend old and new, Ocasio explained.

The brick exterior, for example, will remain beneath the new stucco facade which replaces the wooden shingles that previously rimmed the building.

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A 40-foot tall reinforced, industrial-strength dome, new slab of concrete and extended tipping floor, are designed to accommodate commercial-grade dump trucks at San Juan Islands solid-waste facility.

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The transformation of the San Juan Island solid-waste facility reached a new plateau with the recent installation of an industrial-strength dome, a new slab of concrete below and a buttress of sizable concrete blocks, eight on each side of the 40-foot-wide tipping floor, which serve to anchor it all together.

While the height of the dome, roughly 40-feet from floor to ceiling, may be an eye-opener in itself, its just part of the plan.

And, the upgrade underway is actually ahead of schedule, according to Troy Lautenbach, co-owner of Lautenbach Enterprises, the Skagit County-based garbage, recycling and demolition company that assumed control of the Sutton Road site in early June.

We have 18 months to make the improvements required under our contract and agreement with the county, Lautenbach said, Weve accomplished what weve done so far in seven months. It all goes with turning whats been a drop-box facility back into a transfer station.

Which is what the town of Friday Harbor, as well as many other large-scale local haulers of trash and debris, has been waiting for.

The town, owner of the 26-acre former landfill on Sutton Road, opted a number of years ago to send its trash-haul trucks to the mainland, initially to avoid escalating prices at the solid-waste facility, run at that time by the county, a routine that persisted after the site was converted into a drop-box-only operation due, in part, to lingering problems of tainted stormwater run-off and the absence of a cover over the tipping floor.

Administrator Duncan Wilson foresees more efficient, cost-effective use of-town personnel and utility equipment once state and local health inspectors give a final okay on Lautenbachs improvements, operational plan and then issue the permit to operate the site as a transfer station.

If all goes according to plan, Troy Lautenbach said that final okay should soon be in place.

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In-soon Shin of Washington, D.C., makes use of eight wooden boxes and relief paper castings from ancient Korean tombs in her in work, Energy Force II. The piece is on exhibit at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown through Feb. 28.

The BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown is getting the jump on Lunar New Year celebrations this month by exhibiting the work of three regional artists beginning Thursday.

Called Transformations of Brush and Paper, the exhibit will run past the Lunar New Year on Feb. 19 to Feb. 28.

One of the exhibitors is Kit-Keung Kan. Born in Quangdong, China, he earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and now lives in Bethesda.

Also exhibiting works are Freda Lee-McCann of Columbia and In-soon Shin of Washington, D.C.

The three artists, who interweave traditional and modern ideas in their pieces, will give public demonstrations of how they go about their work followed by a reception on Saturday at BlackRock.

Kan will present three installations, including Ever Flowing, which was inspired by the ancient Chinese poems of Li Ba about the Yangtze Rivers three gorges.

Words from the poems are inscribed on long roles of paper hanging for the ceiling.

[Chinese calligraphy] can be analogized to dance, where the hand doing the calligraphy dances and the calligraphy records parts of the movement on paper, said Kan said in an email.

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When Australian artist Jonathan Zawada was putting the finishing touches this month on a 36-foot-by-12-foot acrylic painting that blends the natural landscape of mountains with the pixelated virtual reality of the video game world, it was not at his Los Angeles studio. And the work will not be featured in an art gallery.

Zawada was painting a wall inside the downtown Washington offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, the global law firm that commissioned his work for the firms new office. The yet-to-be-named artwork, which is made entirely of brightly colored triangles, takes up a wall of Pillsburys first-floor conference center and can be seen from the street through the buildings floor-to-ceiling glass windows. It is the first time that Zawada, whose artwork is typically in private collections, has created a piece for a private company.

Corporate law firms, which for many evoke images of stuffy oil paintings and oriental rugs, are increasingly home to never-before-seen works by artists who trade in light installations, lithographs and metal sculptures.

The trend is a stark contrast from a generation ago, when law partners were known to amass expensive art collections. Of course, many law firms still maintain expansive, curated collections. But increasingly, law firms are commissioning artists to create tailor-made pieces that fit the more modern architecture and aesthetics of the firms. The phenomenon is playing out at law firms across the city.

The main lobby of Covington & Burling, the Districts largest law firm and anchor tenant at CityCenter DC, will soon be home to Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diezs first major installation in the Northeast, which will incorporate natural light coming through the buildings glass walls.

McDermott Will & Emery, which in 2013 relocated its Washington office to a newly designed building on Capitol Hill, commissioned two pieces a series of 17 lithographs by New York City-based artist Peter Coffin and a 20-foot LED lightbox by Spencer Finch, the Brooklyn-based artist who was later selected to offer the only artwork commissioned for the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The lightbox Finch created for McDermott, Summer Afternoon, 1863, Washington, D.C., re-creates the afternoon sunlight at the street corner in Washington where Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln passed each other regularly during the summer of 1863.

Law firms went from, Okay, we have to have some things on the wall, to, We should have some nice paintings, to now, which is, Im interested in art and I want to have something that can reflect the firms vision and how we see ourselves through works of art, said Jean Efron, an art consultant who worked with McDermott and has consulted for more than 100 law firms in a 36-year career.

As that transition took place, traditional standbys such as hunting prints, botanicals and maps fell out of favor.

The shift in how law firms approach art reflects a change in how firms think about the design of their workspace and the impression they want to leave with clients and the public.

The change reflects the times, Efron said. I see firms being more interested in what younger partners would like. Theyre looking to future leadership. Years ago, one might say the senior partners might have been buying for themselves.

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Sea Gull Lighting Recalls Chandeliers Due to Injury Hazard

WASHINGTON - Sea Gull Lighting is recalling 34 versions of its chandeliers because they have been falling from the ceiling.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the chandelier's screw collar that holds it to the ceiling mount can break. That can cause the chandelier to fall and injure bystanders.

Sea Gull Lighting has received four reports of its chandeliers falling from the ceiling. Approximately $1,600 in property damage has been reported. No injuries have been reported.

This recall involves seven collections of Sea Gull Lighting chandeliers including: Brandywine, Laurel Leaf, New Verona, Newport, Parkview, Roslyn and Somerton.

The recalled chandeliers were sold at Lowe's, HomeDepot.com, Amazon.com and other retailers nationwide from November 2006 through August 2013. The chandeliers cost between $250 and $750.

The CPSC says people should not go into the immediate area under the chandeliers. Contact Sea Gull Lighting immediately to receive a free replacement for chandeliers that have fallen, including shipping, or for free replacement hardware to repair the chandelier and instructions on being reimbursed for the full cost of the installation.

Contact Sea Gull Lighting toll-free at (888) 475-1136 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at http://www.seagulllighting.com and click on Safety Recall for more information. Consumers can also email the firm at seagullproducts@seagulllighting.com.

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