Eagle Point

ince Liberty North High School opened in 2010, there have been numerous additions to the building over the years such as the fieldhouse, theatre, and the new wing. At the beginning of the 2018/19 school year, LNHS started the process of adding yet another addition; a completely new wing dedicated to English and Culinary Arts classes. This new wing has been dubbed the ‘new new wing’ by staff and students. “I’m pretty excited about moving to the new wing. The design of the building is beautiful and the instructional strategies that will be employed in that area will be innovative. Most of us haven’t seen it recently, so it will be an adventure on January 6th,” ELA teacher Jennifer Bilen said. Many teachers are excited about the change in scenery after almost a decade of the same classrooms year after year. One such teacher is history teacher Andrew Plaster, who has moved from class to class for a couple years. “I believe there has been some debate for the past year on the best way to utilize the new space, but teachers that will be moving into the new wing found out about 3 to 4 weeks ago. Hopefully, it will be done on schedule, but I do know that with construction there are always things that come up and change the schedule. We’ll make it work whenever it is ready!” Plaster said. The construction workers building the new wing are also hard at work, powering through the unpredictable weather of wind, rain, and snow that comes with working year-round to get the new section of the building up and running by the next semester. “This project started towards the beginning of the year, I’d say we officially broke ground around the end of January,” Construction Foreman Cory Brown said. The planning for the new wing started about two years ago, but actual construction didn’t begin until the beginning of the year during the second semester of the 2018-2019 school year. Though it has made good progress, it has suffered unfortunate setbacks over the course of the year. “Oh, we’re always facing challenges. We always have issues with manpower, obviously, it’s pretty busy this year, everybody’s doing work elsewhere. As far as getting materials on site, we got the owner changes, which slows down the process,” Brown said. Despite a few setbacks concerning the weather and keeping the construction workers in line, Brown is confident that the project will be done in time for the upcoming semester in January. “We’re going to go for our temp CO towards the middle of December, and we’ll let the staff start putting furniture in here. We hope to be done by the beginning of next year. We’ll probably be in here doing minor things, otherwise, it’ll be done,” Brown said. under Construstion The eagles are written by: Ian Toney S

concept art from LNHS Construction in the new wing began in 2018, the faculty believe that if everything stays on schedule, the wing will open in 2020. “The design of the building is beautiful,” ELA teacher Jennifer Bilen said. graphic by: Braden Clapper