The city of Quinhagak is moving two buildings across town and wants families to keep an eye on their small children who are playing in the streets.
The structures are sitting at the city playground and will be relocated near the clinic and washateria buildings.
“They’re going to be moved from the school all through the main road, down another main road, so they’ll be right in the middle of town where the move is taking place,” said Michelle Matthew, Quinhagak City Administrator.
Matthew says the Lower Kuskokwim School District donated two small buildings to the city. Each is about 25 feet by 25 feet. One building will be used as a new post office, the other for storage.
Matthew says the city might be moving three other buildings as well. The other buildings are part of the National Guard armory and would be used to create a new daycare center and teen center.
“That’s one of the ways we’re trying to combat having nothing to do in the village," Matthew said, "just making that building available. So there’ll be games, maybe music and dancing for youth."
Matthew says Quinhagak has not had a teen center for eight years, ever since the old Head Start building burned down and the preschool program took over the former youth building.
She says that right now the city is negotiating the armory’s lease with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The city has not set a date for moving any of the buildings.
