R-5 construction ahead of schedule

Friday, August 16, 2013

By Ralph Pokorny

Nevada R-5 Superintendent Dr. David Stephens showing board member Joy Hawks color swatches for the curtains in the new auditorium. Photo by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

Nevada Daily Mail

The construction projects at the Nevada High School are on track and ahead of schedule in spite of the rain, Aaron Height, construction manager for Crossland Construction, told the Nevada R-5 Board of Education during its regular monthly meeting Wednesday night.

The performing arts center is tentatively scheduled to be completed on Sept. 13, with the multi-purpose building being finished on Sept. 10.

R-5 School Board members Steve Cubbage and Joy Hawks, look at the stage and auditorium in the new performing arts center. The boxes on the stage are the seats to be installed in the auditorium. Photo by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

However, in the case of the performing arts center, completed does not mean ready to use. The curtains will not be finished at that time.

Height told the board that the colors for the curtains were chosen Wednesday. In fact, Nevada R-5 Superintendent Dr. David Stephens was soliciting opinions from R-5 board members on the color for the curtains during a tour of the performing arts building and the multi-purpose buildings be-fore Wednesday's meeting.

"They may be finished by Nov. 1 -- it could be sooner -- instead of Christmas," Height told the board.

Next week he said asphalt will be laid on the circle drive and the seating will be installed.

The multi-purpose building is essentially completed, except waiting for the cement floor to dry enough to lay the synthetic flooring, and installing a batting cage on the north end of the building. The batting cage will lower from the ceiling when in use.

He told the board that based on the paid invoices the building was about 75 percent complete Wednesday.

"The buildings will be essentially completed this month," Height said.

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Does anyone know if they plan on leaving the outside of the building yellow? And if yes, why?

-- Posted by ccmom on Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 9:59 AM
We thought the same thing. Hope not, it looks unfinished and unattractive.

-- Posted by mizzou82 on Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 11:02 AM
Didn't Dr. Stephens say this would all be completed by the first day of school? Here's an interesting fact the person who made the loan for all these new buildings is a personal friend of our Dr. Stephens.

-- Posted by proudtiger on Sun, Aug 18, 2013, at 5:35 PM
I think you all should be really proud of the upward and progressive movement of Nevada High School. As a former resident of Nevada, (I still work in the community,) a graduate of the high school, and a parent of two daughters who graduated from NHS, I have watched the high school grow and grow. It says a lot about this community and the importanct of the kids here, not to mention the commerce a good school system adds to the community. As for performing arts versus vocational technical needs, I expect there's room enough for both. The last I knew, there weren't a lot of kids who had dreams of being a CNA right out of high school....

-- Posted by santwe on Mon, Aug 19, 2013, at 8:41 AM

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