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Community center offers
residents a meeting place
By LINDA SANTINOCETO
Reporter
Need a place with an attractive
setting and accessible parking to
hold a meeting, seminar or banquet?
Want to serve alcoholic beverages?
“No problem,” says Peggy Calli-
ham, director of the College Station
Community Center.
Since the center’s opening in June
1982, usage has increased steadily,
mainly during the school year and at
night, Calliham says.
“We’ve had the ladies garden club
to the gay rights movement here,”
she says. “Any group is welcome but
we expect them to be adults and we
will not do business with groups that
have given us trouble in the past.”
Two years ago College Station
traded land near the high school for
the center’s site, so the city could
build a place for the arts and other
groups who could not meet on the
Texas A&M campus.
Calliham says two advantages of
the center are good parking and
permission to serve alcohol.
“Several Texas A&M groups use
the center because they want to serve
alcohol at their functions and cannot
on campus,” she says.
A minimum surcharge of $35 is
required if alcohol is served. In addi-
2tion, if more than 100 attend, two
peace officers are required.
The center’s seven rooms, with ca
pacities from 30 to 200 people, are
equipped with tables and chairs. The
largest room, the auditorium, seats
180 for a banquet and features a par
quet floor for dancing, a small stage
and a public address system. A deck
for keg parties will be built soon.
In addition, the city is renovating
the building behind the center for
use as a teen center. A council of
teens will determine rules and fees.
Also the teens will have access to the
party deck.
“The center does not pay for it
self,” Calliham says. “The usage
charges cover only 30 percent of the
costs. The rest is funded by the city
hotel-motel tax which was started in
1973 to promote the area ds a viable
tourist center.”
Room fees are assessed according
to group size and classification. For
example, the minimum for a non
commercial group (education, civic
or social) is $5. A political group is
$15 and a commercial group (restau
rant, business) is $30.
“The reason for this is because we
do not want groups making a profit
at the expense of the city,” Calliham
says.
The fees for social events range
from $20 to $378 depending on
group size and classification.
The center has a kitchen equipped
with two refrigerators, a microwave
oven and an ice machine is available
for a minimum of $5. Also available
are a piano, movie screen and po
dium.
A security deposit, from $25 to
$500, is required again depending
on room size and facilities rented.
“Several functions can be held at
once in the community center,” Cal
liham says. “The rooms are well in
sulated and spaced far apart.”
Center offers area residents
more than a meeting place
By J.C. BECKER
Reporter
The Brazos Center is best known
as a meeting hall, but it’s also a place
to visit a museum, see an art exnibit,
walk along a nature trail or have a
picnic.
Phyllis Dozier, director of the Bra
zos Center, says many people, espe
cially Texas A&M students, are un
aware of everything the facility has
to offer.
One of these of ferings is the Bra
zos Valley Museum, which occupies
about three rooms of the center and
contains natural science exhibits
dealing mainly with the Brazos Val
ley area.
“Contrary to the ‘don’t touch, just
look’ atmosphere of many museums,
this museum has a special room that
sets it apart, the Discovery Room,”
museum director Valeen Sylvy says.
“This room encourages the visitor to
both touch and look closely at the
many curious exhibits.”
Sylvy says the museum, which is
open Monday through Saturday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., has something
of interest for every visitor.
Visitors to the museum will pass
an art exhibit in a main hall display
case sponsored by the Brazos Valley
Art League.
“The League sponsors an exhibit
each month featuring local artists
from the various art mediums,” for
mer league president Helen Morgan
says.
Besides housing the museum and
art exhibits, the center also main
tains two sheltered picnic areas with
barbecue grills and restrooms. Lo
cated on the east side of the parking
lot, the picnic areas are popular be
cause they are easily accessible yet
still quiet and secluded, Dozier says.
The picnic areas cost nothing to
use, but the center requires a reser
vation and a refundable cleaning de
posit.
Adjacent to the picnic areas is a
nature trail that the center maintains
on a portion of its 50-acre tract.
Although the nature trail, the mu
seum, the art exhibits and the picnic
areas, are not well-known at Texas
A&M, Dozier says the meeting room
facilities of the center are.
“Many student organizations have
used the Brazos Center for d variety
of reasons,” Dozier says.
The large number of student or
ganizations at Texas A&M creates a
scarcity of meeting space on campus
and the center offers an inexpensive
answer to this problem. The center
has eight small to medium size
rooms and two large assembly rooms
available, ranging in price from $5
to $350 per night depending on
what size room is needed.
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