CETC to be closed for winter

To avoid having the roof fall in on occupants, the county-owned Community Education and Training Center will be shut down for the winter.

Repairs to the foundation of the CETC building may also be too costly for the county to keep the building standing.

A survey of the foundation of the former Elks Lodge found the back section, roughly ten feet of the building near the South Palouse River channel, was built on river silt that allows the building to continually settle. The survey is about two-thirds complete.

The CETC sustained significant damage to its roof from last winter’s heavy snow load....