Students at Ceredo and Kenova
elementary schools continue to celebrate a major victory. They’re getting a new
combined school thanks to voters who approved an $18 million bond last Tuesday.
Students from both schools lined up
in Ceredo and paraded about a mile down the road to Kenova last Friday.
“The students made thank-you signs.
We want to thank everyone who voted ‘yes’ for getting us a new school,” said
Deidre Farley, the principal at Kenova.
The parade was the students’ idea
according to Farley. She said they understand how desparately they need a new
school and now they’re getting one.
“It’s going to be a new, 21st
Century facility for our students. It’s going to be a school in our community,”
Farley said. “We were at the threat of losing our school completely.”
The bond, the third attempt to pass one, had strong support from
the community this time around. Eighteen-million dollars from the state School
Building Authority and another $6 million from the county will be added to the
bond to pay for construction of the new Ceredo-Kenova
Elementary School , a new Crum
Elementary and new classrooms and a secure entry at Wayne High School
