CHATTER: NEW LOOK FOR KENNEDY ATHLETICS.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer Former Kennedy High students are in for quite a surprise when they visit the Granada Granada, city, Nicaragua Granada (gränä`thä), city (1995 pop. 74,396), W Nicaragua, on Lake Nicaragua. It is Nicaragua's third largest city and the center of commerce on Lake Nicaragua. Hills campus these days. ``Actually they'd they'd 1. Contraction of they had. 2. Contraction of they would. they'd have ~would be shocked,'' Kennedy boys' basketball coach Kevin Kanemura said. That's because Kennedy's athletic facilities are quite a bit different now that construction is completed on an ambitious project to repair damages caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake The Northridge earthquake occurred on January 17, 1994 at 4:31 AM Pacific Standard Time in the city of Los Angeles, California. The earthquake had a "strong" moment magnitude of 6. . The main gym is new - it's actually two gyms - as are the tennis courts and softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' facility. The gym has been in use for a little more than a year, but Kennedy decided it was time to invite alumni to check things out Tuesday night during a function honoring this year's basketball team. The school hopes the alumni event opens a yearlong year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or welcome door for former students to visit. ``The kids have a lot of pride in the new facilities, they feel great about it,'' Kanemura said. |
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