On the hottest day of the summer workmen were repairing loose bricks on a scaffold outside the middle school. The bricks were part of the original outside wall in the 1929 wing of the building. Water gets into the mortar during the Summer, then expands during the cold Winter months. Interim Business Administrator Gary Alger explained that the loose bricks were discovered during a recent "Buildings Condition Survey." Mandated by the State, the survey is conducted by a licensed architect to make sure that school buildings are in good shape. "I believe it's one of the best things the State has done," said Mr. Alger.

Workmen replace bricks on the Middle School on a record hot summer day.

In other Middle School news, all the bids are in for the new boiler. Both boilers failed last Spring, so an emergency project was initiated by the School Board to get heat into the building for the coming school year. Mr. Alger said, "The bids are coming in under budget. We're very happy." An engineer is checking the paper work and to make sure that the work can actually be done for the prices bid, and the School Board will accept a bid in Monday's (August 8) meeting.

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