Things definitely don’t look the same as they did in June at the Pine Street Campus of Silverton High School. Construction workers have been busy preparing the athletic fields to be planted this fall and the steel frames are in place for the new two-story classroom wing while work has begun on the new gym, 500-seat auditorium and library.
Silver Falls School District Superintendent Craig Roessler said construction is on target with completion set to be finished before September 2009, when all four grades at the high school will be under one roof. Currently, the freshmen are at the Pine Street campus and the sophomores, juniors and seniors are at the Schlador Street campus.
Voters in the Silver Falls School District approved a $47.5 million bond measure in November of 2006 to complete Phase II of the high school. The new construction adds about 150,000 square feet to the Pine Street Campus and a new agricultural sciences and industrial arts building. The capacity will increase from 500 students to about 1,400 students.
“We are very pleased with the work being done by LCG Pence Construction,” Roessler said. “We recently had the fire marshal and the city inspector onsite to meet with the contractor to make sure everything is in order and safe for students when school starts in September.”
For the 2008-09 school year, only the freshmen students will be attending classes at the Pine Street campus.
Roessler said many lockers are in temporary spots and the library’s size has been reduced because a wall in the library has been removed for the expansion. Construction will continue while school is in session, he said.
To watch the progress, visit LCG Pence’s web camera at http://lcgcam3.remotecam.com/
