Out with the old, in with the new
BY CINDY CHAN
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Photos courtesy of Plaid Interactive Wye Elementary School was
approved and funded by the
previously located just east of
Government of Alberta, is
Sherwood Park, a bedroom
replacing it. But it is now located in
community east of Edmonton,
the Heritage Hills neighbourhood
Alberta. Heritage Hills Elementary
of Sherwood Park. Construction
which has been around for 60
School, a brand new K-6 school
began in November 2018 and was
years.
with a capacity for 650 students
eritage Hills Elementary School has replaced the pre-existing Wye Elementary School,
completed in May 2020. According to Robert Derech, assistant director of projects and planning for Elk Island Public Schools, the school was occupied in September 2020. Aaron Corser, project executive for Clark Builders, who was the general contractor on the project, says the demolition of the old Wye Elementary School was managed by Elk Island Public Schools because it had been located on a different site. Clark Builders’ scope of work included a greenfield site for which
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