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December 26, 2012
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A public tour ushers in new beginning for Marysville School, a historic building reconstructed after a devastating fire. Workers salvaged most of the original door and
framing to retain the southeast Portland school’s vintage look and rebuild the east wing and gym.
c o n t i n u e d f r o m fron t
Construction on the burned down
school began in June. Workers sal
vaged most of the original door and
framing to retain the school’s vin
tage look and rebuild the east wing,
gym and upgrade fire safety in a
sustainable way.
struction projects.
School board members had hoped
After re-construction was com
to com pletely reco n stru ct the plete on a scaled-back plan, stu
Marysville building into a $22 mil dents got a sneak peak of their new,
lion state-of-the-art facility. But old school, which maintained the
voters rejected a $548 million bond same structure, but donned a facelift
issue in May 2011 that would have on the inside.
funded it and other school con
New changes include a full sprin
kler and smoke detector system, an working hard and staff kept teach
expanded library and technology ing, she said.
lab, and sinks added to most class
The real story, she said, is one of
rooms.
resiliency from the community,
Despite all of the challenges, said “Three years later, and we are com
Penley, the Marysville community ing full circle back to the neighbor
managed to push through together. hood. I am proud of our staff and
Kids kept coming to school and proud of the community.”
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