Firm to start cleaning Boca anthrax site

[DoYouEverWonder]

Thursday, June 24, 2004

BOCA RATON -- The building where photo editor Bob Stevens contracted the anthrax that killed him is set to be made safe again.

By the end of the year the former AMI offices will house workers again, representatives of BioONE, the company that plans to both clean and occupy the building, said Wednesday.

Decontamination of the former AMI building, scheduled to begin July 11, will come two years, nine months and six days after doors last closed behind employees of the Weekly World News, The National Enquirer, the Sun and other supermarket tabloids, on the day that Stevens died.

The papers, files, photos and mementos that they left behind that day already have been removed from the building and will be destroyed, BioONE Chief Operating Officer Karen Cavanagh said.

Preserving all of the building's contents, which included more than 5 million photos -- Elvis in his coffin among them -- and 600,000 pages of bound periodicals, would have made the cost of the project "astronomical," Cavanagh said, because the materials would all have had to be tested post-fumigation.


http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/auto/epaper/editions/thursday/south_county_04ad357732d7414000f4.html


What a great excuse to get rid of 5 million photos. I'm sure some of Bob Stevens best work is among them. Gee what a lucky break for Bu$h. If anyone hasn't noticed the National Enquirer which prided itself on investigating anything Clinton, doesn't touch the Bu$h family with a 10 foot poll anymore.