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On Friday, March 22, Montgomery County hosted the official ground breaking ceremony for the new Montgomery County Animal Care and Control shelter and the North Clarksville-Montgomery County Library Branch.

Both facilities will share the property in North Clarksville on the corner of Jordan Road and Purple Heart Parkway.

Many local and state dignitaries attended the ceremony with speakers Montgomery County Mayor Wes Golden, County Commissioner Jeremiah Walker and Library Board Chair Dr. Quentin Hufmberd.

Remarks were made by Animal Care and Control Director Dave Kaske and Library director Christina Riedel.

Golden said the facilities will be a great addition to the countys inventory.

For the citizens who live on this side of our community, it is a blessing to have these resources, Golden said.

The new shelter will have larger kennels for the animals. It will grow from 7,000 square feet the shelter currently has to about 25,000 square feet.

Kaske spoke to Leadership Clarksville last week and gave a preview of the planned animal care and control shelter.

The current shelter has just 45 dog kennels and the new facility will have 100 full kennel runs, with indoor and outdoor access.

There will be specific stray adoption and puppy quarantine areas; a separate animal intake area with housing for ability to perform intake exams; separate entrances for adoptions and admissions; more than 95 cat kennels, with four outdoor/indoor catios, which are patios for cats. There will be four rooms that can house up to four cats with doors that allow the cats to go outdoors during daytime hours.

An animal clinic, with a surgery suite, will also be on the premises. It will have x-ray capabilities and full-service clinical exam areas. A full-time veterinarian and support staff will also be located at the shelter.

The new library branch will offer community space and be built next to the animal shelter, according to Riedel who spoke to her fellow 2024 Leadership Clarksville classmates last week.

The library will have outside space for kids to have messy, fun STEM-based programs; some reading collaborations with reading to dogs and story times; for the older children, the new library branch will have an outdoor area for book clubs and reading areas.

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Riedel said the new library will have services developed that are unique to the northern portion of the community.

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