Lake Central High construction speeds along

ST. JOHN |Construction of the new Lake Central High School is moving along briskly, as the project remains on schedule and the winter weather is having no significant affect.

Construction crews are nearing completion of the new fine arts center, as its just a matter now of dropping in ceiling tile and installing carpeting, according to Bill Ledyard, director of facilities. Flooring is down in the new media center and work on installing flooring in the administration center should be completed in about a week.

Ledyard said the heating and ventilation system in the spacious 4,000-seat gymnasium is about completed, and electrical work and the sprinkler system is nearing completion. Work is about to begin on paintingthe locker room and upper level auxiliary gymnasium.

It will be a bit longer to finish the 1,000-seat auditorium, but Ledyard is confident it will be ready sometime in November. As it stands, all the structural steel is in place, as well as the catwalks, concrete, masonry and column supports.

We will complete the media center, fine arts area and administrative center by the start of the school year in August, Ledyard said.

Already complete are the locker room and concession stand inside a two-story exterior building accompanying the new artificial turf football field, which will be ready for practice around the beginning of July.

The final piece of the construction project will be knocking down the existing school office area, which will be moved to a near area near the south end of the Freshman Center.

New baseball and softball fields, sporting artificial turf, are substantially complete and will be ready to play ball on this spring.

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Lake Central High construction speeds along