The Hometown Treasure August 2012 | Page 46

Replacing The Reflectors On US 20 Westview School Board by Luke Pamer The meeting started with talks of the ISTEP report that was almost finished. According to a board member, If you were driving on the students performed “very well” US 20 several weeks ago, you and there will be a much more extensive report at the August School Board may have noticed a slight dismeeting. ruption in traffic, a utility truck The preliminary budget for the in front followed a little ways back by 2012-2013 school year is going to be a bigger dump truck with seemingly around 28.3 million dollars. The spendnothing in between. Nothing, that is, ing has shown a three percent increase until you went to pass and saw two over last year. Westview has many little yellow vehicles sitting down very projects in the works that will improve close to the road. These dune buggies the school. were replacing the reflectors in the The school is going to replace the center line. The first worker would take auditorium lighting system this year. It a drill and cut out the existing reflecwill cost around $69,746.85. There are tor then zoom off to the next one. The also issues with the roof and Westview second worker would come along, clean has chosen Borntrager roofing to do out anything that was left, fill the hole the repairs. This will cost $134,190. with something, put in a new reflector In other repair news, the waste then take off after the first one. It was very quick work, each worker spending less than a minute at each stop. Hometown Treasure Photos pg 44 · The Hometown Treasure · August ‘12 treatment plant’s improvements are ahead of schedule and nearly finished, about a month before the students come back to school. Westview has been working very hard to catch up to other schools in the technology department. Westview is not always known for “being ahead of the curve” when it comes to technology. However, they are installing a wireless internet network for the 20122013 school year. The cost is going to be around $47,231 which is about $10,000 less than the other options. Ciber Incorporated of Mishawaka is going to be installing the network. Westview principal, Rich Cory, and the rest of his committee worked very hard on getting this done. The network should be installed by a late deadline of October 1st. Drawing Contest Winner Last month we asked for illustrations of our theme “Your Family.” The illustration below by 7 year old Lydia Leith was selected as our winner for the school-age division. Congratulations to her! The school-age division is open to any student from kindergartners to eighth grade. There were no entries for the Open Division this month. The theme for this month is “Weather” so start thinking the best way to depict the weather around you. All entries are to be two-dimensional and on 8½” x 11” paper. Mail your entry, or drop it off at our office, by Friday, July 20. The winning entries will be published in our next issue and will have bragging rights for the whole month!