Groundbreaking

We are getting a new school!  Last fall, the Provo School District and School Board were hoping to pass a bond to rebuild five schools.  I was asked to be part of a citizens committee to help promote the bond and work to get it passed.  I was willing to help because our very own Rock Canyon was one of the schools that would be rebuilt if the bond passed.  I'm happy to report that it did pass, and today they had a groundbreaking ceremony to officially start construction.  We all went (even Kent for a bit) and were happy to participate.  The school will take about 18 months to build, which means that it will be finished in time for the 2016-17 school year, Brandt's fifth and Blythe's third grade years.  The plans look great and it will be fun to watch it being constructed.  As part of the ceremony, children in attendance were able to release 53 balloons to represent the 53 years Rock Canyon will have been a school by the time the new one is finished.  Principal Nielson said that 30,000 students had passed through the school since it first opened, which is an awful lot of students.  And now, in my head, I will sing the short refrain of the Rock Canyon song I know.  "Rock Canyon! Rock Canyon! To you we will be true!"

Rock Canyon students extraordinaire, with big equipment in the background.

Mr. Nielson, Principal

 

 

 

The mayor, John Curtis, and Dean Nielson, trying to work the mini excavators.

Doing a little groundbreaking of our own.