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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
Meredith is probably keeping up with Loudon. As Baer gave the Loudon an awesome ladder truck so he can protect his bleachers at the speedway  |
As I understand it, when Bob and Gary Bahre were trying to get approval to build NHIS, the Loudon Fire Chief wanted to restrict the height of the stands to something like 35 rows. That would not have been enough seats for the deal to work, plus the best seats are the rows at the top, the higher the better.
When asked why the 35 row limit, the Fire Chief said that his present ladder truck would only go that high and if for some reason they needed to access the top rows, he would not be able to do it. Bob asked if he had a ladder truck that would be able to reach 50 rows, would that resolve the problem.
When the Fire Chief said if he had a ladder that would go up high enough for 50 rows, he would have no problem with agreeing to 50 rows. Bob asked how much the truck would cost, and when hearing the answer of about $250,000 turned to his son Gary, saying write the man a check.
With the Fire Chief now on board, the permit to build what was NHIS was approved and issued. There is a plaque on the fire truck with the date the Bahre's donated the money to buy it, thhe same date the building permit was issued.
Hard to believe it, but the ground breaking was in August 1989, more than 20 years ago.
R2B