Everson-Nooksack News
Lynden Tribune | Wednesday, July 5, 2017
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It’s a push to the finish for new NV Middle School
A crane helps a Dawson Construction Co. Crew work on completing the new Nooksack Valley Middle School this summer. (Courtesyaerial photo/Bill Peters)
Classrooms will be ready for opening day of new year Aug. 30 By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com
EVERSON — Snug to the building that has educated Nooksack Valley students since 1946, a new school is taking
shape. For the past year, there has been a delicate balancing act of getting the new school built while carrying on in the old one as normally and as fully as possible. The building effort is now coming to a climax over the summer, with close to 75 Dawson Construction Co. workers on the campus each day to push this big Nooksack Valley Middle School project through to completion. When Aug. 30 rings in another school
year, students will not be entering an entirely finished structure — most notably because the front entrance is one of the last things to be done — but they will truly have a spacious, two-story new school that can begin to serve the community for many years into the future, Dawson project superintendent Corey Presler is sure. Classrooms will be ready, Presler said. The entrance, rebuilt gym and most landscaping work will continue while
students are in session in the fall. Meanwhile, in late July expect to see demolition of the 71-year-old familiar school building, and removal of two trees at the front — most of the row of oaks will be kept — to open up a proper view of the new school from Columbia Street. A phased project It has definitely been a project of successive phases. See NVMS on C6