“Name that Year” is designed to put your knowledge of Tracy and its newsmakers of the past to the test. Each week, we will publish a news item that ran in a past edition — maybe it was a major event, or a story about a Tracy resident — it’s up to you to determine in what year that particular news item hit the pages of the paper:
• A TRACY WELLNESS CENTER IS NO LONGER A MERE POSSIBILITY. IT’S A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT and a groundbreaking ceremony for the 7,200 square-foot facility was observed in this year.
“This is a great day,” said Claire Hannasch, chairman of the Sioux Valley Tracy Medical Center Board. “A lot of time and effort has gone into this.”
RWS Joint Ventures of Sanborn is the project developer and will own the building. SVTMC will move its therapy center to the new building and lease space from RWS. The two parties will operate a community wellness center at the site.
The wellness center will be built southeast of the Tracy hospital, facing Fifth Street East. The site is directly south of the Prairie View Healthcare Center.
Hannasch complimented Ron and Warren Gramstad, partners in RWS; and Rick Nordahl, SVTMC chief executive officer; for their perseverance in working out the wellness center agreement. The new center, he said, will be good for both the community and the hospital.
“There are a lot of people who have been supporting this and who are looking forward to it,” Hannasch said.
• Last week’s answer: Tracy voters overwhelmingly supported a $1.5 million swimming pool bond referendum in 2001.
