‘Doing-It’ Project Planned At Five Mile School

Thu., July 6, 2000

The Spokane Preservation Advocates are going to be working at Five Mile School on Saturday, and the public is invited to bring paint brushes and join them.

The group will scrape, sand and prime paint a wooden porch on the north side of the two-story brick school house that has been boarded up since 1969.

The preservation advocates host “Doing-It” projects to draw community support for hands-on preservation work throughout the city.

The Five Mile project begins Saturday at 9 a.m. until noon, at the building site at Five Mile and Strong roads. Refreshments will be provided.

The group fears the building is in danger of being torn down if plans aren’t made for its renovation and reuse.

Those feelings are cemented by the amount of development in the area, said Gary Lauerman, a member of Spokane Preservation Advocates.

“If the character of the neighborhood is to be preserved then this is an important part of that,” Lauerman said.

After Five Mile School was closed it was used as a community center for a short time and has since been a storage facility for the Mead School District.

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