Video – Vida Community Center Time Capsule Recovered

As the remaining Community Center building was being demolished last Friday, Debris Management Task Force crews helped to uncover a time capsule from 1949, something long rumored to be under the building’s cornerstone.

Vida McKenzie Community Center Board President Walter Wilson reached out to Kevin Finch, the ODOT On-Scene Incident Commander for the Holiday Farm Fire area, to let him know that there may be a time capsule in the building’s structure and to see if it could be safely retrieved.

Finch and crews from AshBritt and K&E Constructors were more than willing to help in the hunt for this piece of history! Using a small excavator brought in specifically for the targeted digging, crews first began searching in the ground under the foundation, where the time capsule was rumored to be buried.

After finding nothing in the ground, Finch and team assessed the building’s walls and – after extending the perimeter viewing area for the media and community members who were anxiously anticipating the time capsule discovery – began knocking down the wall to get access to the cornerstone.

Inside the cornerstone was a glass bottle containing several historic documents relating to the center including a short history of the establishment and lists of the people who set it up and the original members of the McKenzie River Active Club.

Read more about the time capsule at www.debriscleanupnews.com/post/debris-cleanup-crews-help-unearth-time-capsule or watch the video above.