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Page 8 The INDEPENDENT, August 21,1996 Flood damage at Vernonia schools not completely repaired yet Vernonia students attend ing Washington Grade School will find that all facilities dam aged by the February flood have been put back in shape. Work has been completed in all areas of the basement, in cluding the cafeteria, which will be open as usual for breakfast and lunch. It is also possible that a temporary classroom will be placed in the basement to relieve over crowding. Vernonia High School stu dents won’t be quite so lucky, though some areas will be ready when classes resume. The new floor in the gym nasium has been laid and the striping has been done, but it won’t be quite ready when school starts Sept. 3 because the paint used for the striping will need several more days of curing time. The gym will be ready for use on Monday, Sept. 9. The boys' and girls’ locker rooms, and the blea chers are ready for use. The Band room, Home Economics room and Room 10 will be nearly ready, with new paint and flooring, but the cabinets won”t be in stalled. The company that was awarded the first contract for the cabinets in those rooms, declared bankruptcy, so a new contract had to be negotiated, delaying comple tion until Sept. 16. There, will also be new appliances in the Home Ec rooms. Carpet will be installed in the Band Room and Room 10; vinyl tile will be laid in the Home Ec room. Outside of the main build ing, the commons room will be used for satellite and com puter instruction classes when school opens. Those classes will be moved to the main building when more classrooms are ready. The commons will also be carpet ed. replace the rotting pole cur The shop will be usable as rently in use, plus new under a classroom when school ground cable and a different, opens, also, though students safer, location for the trans will not be able to use power former, which is presently tools for about a month. placed inside the building. Dark blue carpeting is planned for throughout the Another problem awating school, including the hall determination by FEMA is re ways, with the exception of placement or repair of the the Home Ec and Science school’s three-room modular rooms. Three colors of vinyl tile - dark blue, off white and a light brown similar to the ex Vernonia High School stu isting paneling - will complete dents will find a different pro those two rooms. cedure for scheduling classes Exposed areas of the cabi when they return Sept. 3 for nets - doors, fronts, etc. - will the 1996 fall semester. Stu be honey maple laminate, dents will handle their own with off-white counter tops. scheduling, by working with To complete the blue, off- the teachers offering the white and light brown color classes, instead of having it scheme, a dark blue paint will done by computer. be used on the lower walls, Called “arena scheduling’’, with off-white above. the system has each teacher Outside the school, the seated at a table with a list of grandstand has been re paired and the field lights are working. The greatest problem fac ing completion of flood re pairs is the school electrical system, which has deteriorat There will be some new ed far beyond expectations, faces at Vernonia schools for according to project manager the 1996-97 year and some Dave McKay. familiar faces will be gone. “We must rewire the whole Two teachers, Ron Rem building,” McKay explained, sen and Sharon Williams, “and, though we have verbal have retired. Others who will agreement from FEMA, we not return are Gene Spencer, can’t move forward until we Greg Buchan, Randy Dalzell, receive a letter of determina Jason Nice, Bryan Orton and tion." Dan Foss. Rewiring will have to in New teachers at Vernonia clude new electrical distribu High School will include Sheri tion panels because there are Antley in Advanced Math, Jill no longer replacement parts Griffin, Career Ed, and Kristi available for the existing 45- Hickox, Alternative Ed. year-old panels. Breaker pan Washington Grade School els throughout the school will add Joan Jones for must also be replaced be grades 5/6 and Kathy Kuskie, cause of corrosion due to the 7-8 science. high humidity created by Splitting time between flood-soaked walls and other VHS and WGS will be Span materials. ish teacher Robert Bruce. Electrical repairs will also have to include a new pole to VAN DYKE APPLIANCES building. 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