Alaska News

Tanana River Bridge project to provide free firewood to Fairbanksans

According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the managers of the Tanana River bridge project will be giving a gift to the residents of Fairbanks as a premature apology for the inconveniences of construction: 300 cords of free firewood.

The bridge project will give away the wood that resulted from clearing the construction site this past fall. The News-Miner reports that project director Mark Peterburs said the wood will be a way for the project to generate some good will before construction begins in earnest in 2012.

The wood was originally going to be held in a lot where people could come and take it themselves, but after concerns about liability, the decision was made to dole it out in the spring of 2012, giving the wood time to dry. Peterburs wasn't sure yet how the wood would be distributed.

Read more, at the News-Miner.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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