Renovated Community Activity
Center reopens at Bamberg
By Rick Emert, Bamberg
bureau
Rick Emert / Stars and
Stripes
Cast members from the Stable Theatre production of “Oliver” perform at the
reopening ceremony of the Community Activity Center in Bamberg, Germany. |
BAMBERG, Germany — After $60,000 of renovations, Warner Barracks’ former
recreation center reopened Friday as the Community Activity Center.
The center is designed as a one-stop entertainment and leisure facility with more
appealing decor than the old recreation center, according to Brad Cline, the center’s
director.
"The recreation center was a homely, poorly taken care of place," Cline said
during Friday’s reopening ceremony. The remodeled facility consolidates the
recreation center, outdoor recreation, arts and crafts and the tax relief office all into
one location. It also has a new coffee shop,
"We wanted to make it better for our customers and more cosmetically
pleasant," Cline said. "Now people won’t have to worry about going to
different locations for arts and crafts or to book a tour. It’s all here, and
we’ve extended the hours."
The extended hours were the result of feedback from a customer survey last year, he
said.
And those opening hours might get even longer, according to Lt. Col. Timothy Hill,
279th Base Support Battalion commander.
"If this really takes off, if the [services] continue to do well and there’s
a need for it, the hours will be extended again," Hill said. "Right now, I think
these hours are what we need."
Customers who had seen the recreation center before the renovations were impressed with
the changes.
"It’s a 180-degree turnaround from the way it looked before," Sgt. 1st
Class Carter Criger, who works for the 279th BSB. "Appearance is everything, and I
think the way it looks now will really bring the single soldiers in."
Bamberg residents can expect to see more changes at the center in the future, Hill
said.
"What we’ve done here is made a very comfortable atmosphere where we hope
people will want to come just to relax," Hill said. "But we’ll continue to
improve [the center]."
The new operating hours for the center are as follows:
- Recreation center and outdoor recreation, noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday;
- Crafts store, noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday;
- Tax Relief Office, noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
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