COOPERATION PAYS SCHOOL-CITY SITE LOOKING GOOD.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer GLENDALE - Unprecedented cooperation between city and school officials is producing what they call the new crown jewel Crown jewel A particularly profitable or otherwise particularly valuable corporate unit or asset of a firm. Often used in risk arbitrage. The most desirable entities within a diversified corporation as measured by asset value, earning power, and business prospects; in takeover for South Glendale: a $46 million complex, complete with a school, a library and much more. On a 10-acre site at the corner of Pacific and Riverdale avenues, construction is nearly complete on a 37-classroom elementary school elementary school: see school. , a new library, a three-acre park, a baseball diamond, a community health clinic and a climate-controlled gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. . A dedication for the Edison-Pacific project will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the baseball field at Riverdale and Kelinworth avenues. City and school officials rave about the cooperative effort that has produced the Edison-Pacific project. ``This is the first time that the city and the school district have worked together - and hopefully not the last,'' said City Councilman Dave Weaver. ``These days, the economics don't allow us the luxury of doing it all ourselves. When you can pool your resources, you can do a whole lot more.'' About $7 million from the city treasury and $26 million from the school district are financing the project, along with a $13 million federal community-development grant. Programming at the facilities will be split between school and community use. The library will have a children's section open only to the elementary school students during school hours. Similarly the school yard will not be open only to the students during school hours. The rest of the library will be available to the community during regular business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a , as will the community center and health clinic. Linda Conover is the principal of Edison Elementary School Edison Elementary School is the name of many primary schools, with most of them named after Thomas Edison. They include:
adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from about the move from the 1951 school. ``It's going to enhance us in all ways. I can't even really imagine all of the opportunities, the doors that this will open for us and for the community,'' Conover said. Edison Elementary is a year-round school Year-Round School is the operation of educational institutions on a calendar-system that tracks students into class schedules throughout the entire calendar year. A primary motivation is that higher student throughput is accomplished via more effective scheduling of school , and Conover plans to begin the 2003-2004 school year in July at the new complex. ``Some teachers have already started packing their stuff,'' Conover said. Pat Shea, the Edison-Pacific project manager for city government, said the new complex has something for everyone, especially children. ``This will be quite a transition for the kids. It will be like moving into the Taj Mahal Taj Mahal (täzh məhäl`, täj məhŭl`), mausoleum, Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Yamuna River. It is considered one of the most beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian , or something,'' said Shea as he proudly showed off the clock tower at the state-of-the-art site. ``Edison-Pacific will inject a sense of pride into the community here. There will be something for everyone, not just for kids,'' Shea said. The colorful campus has an open design. Two curved and cubed two-story pastel pastel (păstĕl`), artists' medium of chalk and pigment, tempered with weak gum water and usually molded in the form of sticks; also a work done in this medium. Pastel was in use in Italy in the 15th cent. and is doubtless much older. school buildings are lined with outdoor walkways connecting all the classrooms. Each building has an elevator for handicapped accessibility. Just south of the school campus is a new library, anchored at one end with a metallic, space-shuttlelike structure: the reading room. And at the other end is a playground, where artificial palm tree fountains are being installed for kids to play under when the weather heats up. In the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of the new-age design stands a 100-year-old oak tree that grew on the original plot of city-owned land at the old Pacific Park. ``The focal point focal point n. See focus. of the project is that coastal oak. We've literally worked around it in order to keep a little bit of the old with this new project,'' Shea said. Shea himself is personally nostalgiac about the history of the site. The 32-year city employee hit his first Little League home run at Pacific Park in 1962. Officials say that Edison-Pacific cooperation could be the beginning of joint efforts on local projects. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) City project coordinator Pat Shea believes almost completed development of a school, a library, a park, a gym and a community clinic in Glendale is a shining example of what cooperation by public officials can achieve. Below, a century-old oak tree, preserved as the focal point, already shades the site. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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