With the iconic creamery building just a bed of rumble now, it's legacy will still live on.

Beams from the building have been recovered and aren't damaged or contaminated by the asbestos that was in the building.

Facilities Manager for the Town of Okotoks, Brian Couronne says these aren't your average beams.

"We were able to salvage about 18 beams and they're fairly large beams and the beams themselves are fairly old, if you think of the building being about 100 years old and the beams are another 75 years on top of that or more," he says.

Couronne says the town already has a plan in place for some of the beams.

"We're going to put some of them in the old saw display we have behind the library and the rest we'll just put into storage for future use for potentially whatever may be built down the road for the historic point of view."

When trying to salvage other pieces of the building Couronne says the only items that could have future use to the Town is the beams.

"We were trying to salvage some of the brick but there was really no historic value on the brick that was in the front of the building," he says. "One of the interesting things we did find when we were tearing the building down which we didn't know, there was a 'dumb waiter' in there for moving their food up to the second level of the barn portion when it was the creamery."

The building had to be torn down after a fire to the building back in the spring.

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