SPIFFING THINGS UP QUARTZ HILL CAMPUS GETS A MAKEOVER.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer QUARTZ HILL - Sugar Santos Santos (sän`t  s), city (1996 pop. 412,288), São Paulo state, SE Brazil, on the island of São Vicente in the Atlantic just off the mainland. normally works campus security at Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). , but when students are out for summer break, she helps with the annual maintenance work on campus. On Monday, she was busy sanding old blue paint off an administration building door, uncovering other colors layered underneath from previous paint jobs at the 35-year-old campus. ``We're cleaning up and freshening up. We're getting everything prepared for the school for the kids,'' Santos said. ``A clean environment is more positive for the kids.'' The maintenance work includes projects big and small - from $251,478 to reroof one of the school's four quad buildings to changing light bulbs in classrooms. Other work includes laying new concrete pads for eating areas, moving equipment and furniture, painting trash cans In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. in the school colors of blue and gold, stripping and waxing floors, resealing the gym floor, installing a sink in an art room, and reseeding areas where students' feet have worn away the grass. Principal Barbara Willibrand estimates she has spent about $15,000 on various maintenance projects and said the work is akin to a ``woman going through the house and spring cleaning Spring cleaning is the period in spring time set aside for cleaning a house, normally applied in colder climates, where the house is difficult to clean during winter. .'' ``We take the money allocated for site improvement and try to make that go as far as it can go,'' Willibrand said. ``My philosophy is when kids come back, if it all looks groomed, clean and fresh, they get the idea that it needs to stay groomed, clean and fresh.'' The roofing project is deferred maintenance work, with the state and the district splitting the cost, said Jeff Foster Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16 1977, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. , assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of business services. Foster said roofing and asphalt asphalt (ăs`fôlt, –fălt), brownish-black substance used commonly in road making, roofing, and waterproofing. Chemically, it is a natural mixture of hydrocarbons. work are being done at all of the district's campuses. ``It allows school districts throughout the state to maintain facilities with help from the state,'' Foster said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Quartz Hill High security guards Sandy Pettway, left, and Hernando Ojeda move equipment to the agriculture shop Monday. (2 -- color) Sugar Santos, a security guard-turned-maintenance person for the summer, paints doorjams in the administration office. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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