By Chris Frost
Eagle Times News Editor
CLAREMONT, NH — The Historic District Commission approved a 10-foot by 16-foot outdoor freezer at the Claremont Soup Kitchen during its Thursday, Sept. 28, meeting.
The commission approved the freezer and continued the action until Thursday, Oct. 26, when the facility can present plans to install a fence.
The freezer will alleviate a shortage of space over Thanksgiving.
Claremont Soup Kitchen Executive Director Cindy Stevens said the freezer will be located in the back left corner of the property.
Chair David Messier said photos show a shed currently sitting in the location, and the freezer will be “somewhat visible” from the street but further back.
“It’s a free-standing Bally Outdoor Freezer and will look almost like a walk-in freezer,” Stevens said. “The outside will essentially look like the inside because it’s the same material.”
Messier asked Stevens if she’d prefer to continue the application until December when the soup kitchen installs the fence, which would save the location money.
“We have 300 turkeys coming in November that always causes a huge problem because we just have our one freezer,” Stevens said. “This is the big reason we are getting this because we have to have people come and get them the day we get them. We have no place to put them.”
Messier confirmed the plan is to pour a concrete pad, place the freezer on top and come back with a proposal to cover it.
He noted that no abutters were opposing the project.
Claremont Soup Kitchen is located at 51 Central Street.
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