Highlandlake church Receives Emergency Grant
Published June 2003)

As you may have read in recent newspaper accounts, Highlandlake church, located northwest of Mead on WCR 5 between WCR 34 3/4 and WCR 36, suffered severe damage in the March blizzard due to the weight of the wet snow on the roof. The Town and many other interested citizens and groups wrote letters of support to the State Historical Fund so that the congregation* could obtain an emergency grant to have the funds to stabilize the building. The grant was recently awarded. Congratulations to Pauli Smith for her hard work on this. The organization will still need to do a major fundraising drive to actually restore the building. for further information or to volunteer your help, call Pauli Smith at 970 535-4936.

The church has an interesting website that has [pictures of early Mead homes and settlers. The web address is: www.hollyhockfarms.com/historic_Highlandlake/hlkchurch/default

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* Editors note: The church building does NOT have a congregation in it. The building is owned by the Historic Highlandlake, Inc. a local historical, non-religious organization who also owns the Pioneer Highlandlake Cemetery on WCR 36.