Shake, Rattle, and Roll --- Lights OUT!

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In an extremely unfortunate outcome of the April 4th earthquake, our football field lighting has been deemed unsafe and will have to be taken down as soon as possible. If you've driven down Eighth Street by Birger Field, you will notice that the city has erected no parking signs the entire length of the school grounds. This is to ensure the safety of those who may normally park there and to make sure the large cranes and other equipment needed to remove the decades old light standards have a place to park and set up.

We are already working with our architect and FEMA on determining an appropriate replacement system. It will be costly and may take time. We may have to either play day games or use another facility for football and soccer next school year.

As far as graduation goes, we should be okay. As long as the bleachers are determined to be okay, we will bring in portable lighting for graduation. We should know about the status of the bleachers after the lighting post directly behind the bleachers is removed. Currently, that light post is leaning on the bleachers/announcers booth so we won't know if there is any damage until it has been removed.

Since there's nothing we can do to stop the earthquakes, we just have to be diligent in responding to any damage that surfaces.

As always, I thank each of you in our community that has supported us throughout the process.


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