The well functions as a center of gravity, focusing attention on the paper's nerve center.
The Eagles Mere Athletic Association runs a summer program of sports and activities for children, and there are musical performances, mostly classical and jazz, in the David A. Dewire Center, a community meeting place that also functions as a center for teenagers.
Barlow Respiratory Hospital (BRH) functions as a center for weaning patientsfrom prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) in the post-ICU setting ofa long-term acute-care (LTAC) facility.
"The goal is for the Parrish to really function as a center for cultural engagement for the whole East End," Terrie Sultan, the museum's director, said as she toured the building with a visitor a few days before its opening on Nov. 10.
After the Soviet war in Afghanistan ended in 1989, the mosque continued to function as a center for radical Islamic learning and housed several thousand male and female students in adjacent seminaries.
In those cases, the store functions as a distribution center.
The lab functions as a conservation center and a research institute.
But whether or not these items were well prepared, they offered strong echoes of home, because they were served within a temple that functions as a community center.
Harborfields Library, housed in a former elementary school, also functions as a community center, with an art gallery, a concert series, tax counseling, and classes in cooking, knitting, yoga and driving.
There are no guided tours, but visitors can buy a slim book, "Harvey Fite's Opus 40," and watch a seven-minute video at a former truck garage that functions as a visitor center and a gallery of Fite's figurative works.
The youngest, Brittany Bryant, 25, graduated from pharmacy school in May, and is studying the business side of Barney's, an independent drugstore that also functions as a community center.
