'Lame duck' C-K council OK's $476K design contract for new fire station

Chatham-Kent council has approved a nearly $476,000 contract to design a new fire station on a former Chatham elementary school property.Architecttura Inc. will design a one-storey, four-bay fire station No. 1, which a municipal staff report says will be built on roughly 0.4-hectares (one acre) of the former St. Ursula Catholic school property at 426 Lacroix St..The existing school building, closed after Chatham’s Catholic elementary schools were consolidated, is being demolished under a