NEW SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY EASTSIDE'S $15.3 MILLION CAMPUS TO SERVE 700 PUPILS.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER -- Eastside Union School District on Monday will open its newest elementary school elementary school: see school. , a $15.3 million campus that will serve about 700 youngsters in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through fifth grade. Columbia Elementary School, located at 27th Street East and Avenue J-4, is the district's first new school in more than four years and is named after the shuttle shuttle: see loom. shuttle In the weaving of cloth, a spindle-shaped device used to carry the crosswise threads (weft) through the lengthwise threads (warp). Not all modern looms use a shuttle; shuttleless looms draw the weft from a nonmoving supply. that was destroyed Feb. 1, 2003, over Texas. ``We are very excited about the new school,'' Principal Dorothea Thompson said. ``We've been moving in for about a month. We've been here and unpacking.'' The 12.5-acre campus is the new home of staffers and pupils from Tierra Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
The two schools had started out in 1991 as one, created to accommodate youngsters living in the housing tracts that sprang up in east Lancaster in the late 1980s. The school split in two to keep the size manageable. Tierra Bonita South will stay on the old campus. ``It's been a long time coming. Tierra Bonita North was supposed to be temporary, but that was 15 years ago,'' Thompson said. To help ease the transition, Wal-Mart on Thursday donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. 31 32-inch televisions and 31 DVD-VCR-combination players to Columbia, one for each classroom. Clarence Winn, co-manager of the west Lancaster Wal-Mart, said he received a letter from Eastside asking for assistance in purchasing televisions and DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. . ``They said funding was limited, and they were wondering if we could help. I took the letter to a meeting of store managers in the (10-store) district, and they all agreed to donate the whole thing and split it among all the stores,'' Winn said. ``All the time we see teachers in stores buying supplies for themselves and the kids. Schools are not as well-funded the way we like to think they are,'' Winn said. Columbia's construction was financed from a $15.5 million bond measure passed in 1997 by Eastside voters, along with state funds. The campus, which has a post-modern design, consists of a core building with three main wings that contain administration offices, a library and multimedia center, and a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room with a kitchen. karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Lancaster Wal-Mart employees on Thursday unload To remove a program from memory or take a tape or disk out of its drive. DVD-VCRs players donated by Wal-Mart to the new Columbia Elementary School. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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