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Pioneer Grain's wooden elevator comes down after having
the front corners undermined by an excavating machine on Friday
morning, forever changing Weyburn's skyline. Pioneer completed
construction of its concrete terminal on Highway 39 last year,
and it has been up and running since late 2002; no buyers were
found for the structure built by Weyburn Flour Mills in 1959
at a cost of $50,000. The demolition crew had prepared all week
to bring down the elevator, and waited until the prevailing winds
were in the right direction to avoid covering the city in a cloud
of dust. The annex next to it was built in 1955 at a cost of
$10,000, and will come down this week in sections. |
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