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Photo by Rachelle Klemme10.13.10 The Kraus-Anderson Construction Company kept the exterior building intact, only commencing demolition after interior items were removed.
06.17.10 The Wadena-Deer Creek High School was directly in the tornado’s path.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools10.16.10 Kraus-Anderson workers re-cover items from Wadena-Deer Creek High School on Wednesday, before demolition begins.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools11.13.10 Ceiling tiles, insulation, damaged school furniture, supplies and more are in piles from Rachel Contracting, removing debris from the tornado-damaged high school. Areas of the deteriorating building are being shored up so asbestos removal can continue. After asbestos and debris is cleared from the school, the walls will be demolished, most likely the middle of November.
Reprinted from the Oct. 16, 2010 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Over the next several weeks, the public will notice a flurry of activity at Wadena-Deer Creek High School, which was de-stroyed by the June 17 tornado.
Workers from Kraus-Ander-son Construction Company are scouring classrooms during the week of Oct. 11, 2011, in an effort to retrieve items before demolition begins. Workers are also removing fluorescent bulbs, PCB ballasts in light fixtures, thermostats, refrigerants from cooling systems and petroleum-based products in the boiler room. Many of these items will be reused or recycled.
Areas of asbestos have been located throughout the school, with the asbestos abatement to begin Oct. 18. Of the eight com-panies who bid on the demoli-tion project, Rachel Contract-ing of St. Michael, Minn., was awarded the general demolition contract. They are in the process of acquiring the necessary per-
mits and licenses required by the state.
Wadena-Deer Creek School District Business Manager Jerry Anderson said the public won’t see any visible demolition of the high school until early Novem-ber.
“From what Kraus-Anderson is telling us, there’s much to be done yet internally,” said An-derson, referring to the removal of items, asbestos and other hazardous materials. “It looks right now like the first week of November before the public will see the walls of the building start to come down.”
Security personnel are cur-rently on duty monitoring the site, which is potentially dan-gerous due to the instability of the structure. Anderson said the school continues to be mindful of the public’s safety.
Meanwhile, the high school’s architect, Perkins+Will, held a second meeting with WDC staff for additional input on the de-sign of the new high school.
Asbestos removal first, then demolition
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Photo by Brian Hansel11.15.10 A big Rachel Contractors Caterpillar crawls into the Wadena-Deer Creek gymnasium after tearing down the west wall. Only 15-20 percent of the contents of the school could be salvaged before demolition work began. Many portions of the building were not considered safe after the June 17 tornado. The school district received an insurance settlement of nearly $41 million in October.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools11.15.10 There were mixed emotions from different age groups as Rachel Contractors began taking down the Wadena-Deer Creek High School. A Rachel Contractors employee estimat-ed the demolition of the school will take 4-6 weeks, depending on the weather. The school was destroyed by a tornado that hit Wadena June 17. Work on a new school is scheduled to begin April 1, 2011. The new facility is expected to be ready for classes when the 2012-13 school year begins.
Reprinted from the Nov. 15, 2010 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Wadena-Deer Creek School members will remember Nov. 15 as a day of cheers and tears.
At 8:30 a.m. that Monday, students, staff and community members gathered at the north-west corner of the former high school site for an informal pro-gram to commemorate the start of the school’s demolition. The school was destroyed by a tor-nado that hit Wadena on June 17. Groundbreaking on a new school is scheduled to begin April 2011.
Superintendent Virginia Dahlstrom referred to the start of the demolition as a way to remember our past, but to now focus on the future of the school. School board member Peter Hayes echoed Dahl-strom’s remarks, saying the school board is looking for-ward to when the new school opens on the same site fall
2012.To WDC School District
bookkeeper Joyce (Roggen-kamp) Boyne, the school represented different phases throughout her lifetime. Boyne was a junior when the high school was built in 1965, grad-uating in 1967 with a class of 128 students.
“My junior and senior year, I had many good memories of this school,” Boyne said. She and her husband, Bruce, raised two children who also gradu-ated from Wadena. Another highlight for Boyne was after the November 2009 election, when the school referendum passed.
“I remember all of us in the District Office sharing a group hug,” Boyne said. “We were so pleased it passed so we could continue providing our students with a quality educa-tion.”
But perhaps the most pro-found memory for Boyne was on June 17, when she was in the school as the tornado hit.
Boyne and custodian Terry An-drie moved from the District Office to an inner classroom to take shelter from the storm.
“By the grace of God, we were OK,” Boyne said.
WDC High School social studies teacher Brian Maki said, watching the demolition of the high school gymnasium brought tears to his eyes.
“As the walls were coming down, I was thinking about all the good times I had in that school. I loved that school. It represented so much to me and to my colleagues and to our students,” said Maki, who is in his 18th year at WDC. “A lot of wonderful memories I won’t forget.”
As the demolition crane tore at the walls of the gymna-sium, students cheered at the incredible sight of the debris falling, resulting in a gaping hole and exposing the inside of the gymnasium that’s been vacant for nearly five months. As the hole became larger, the “Home of the WOLVERINES”
painted in bold blue and gold letters could be seen, perhaps a melancholy reminder that the gymnasium was once home to the school’s sporting and school events.
Bittersweet morning for those at Wadena-Deer Creek schools
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This monument was part of the original high school built in the early 1900s. It will be saved, and a new home will be found for this historic marker.
Give it up for the gold and blue!To say the least, this has
been a busy summer at WDC, and I am sure the frantic moves and shifting of school items will continue until all staff and students are settled into their new spaces in the next few months. Will the new high and middle school open on Sept. 4? Oh, yes. Will the new facility be complete? Not 100 percent. Is student enrollment up? Yes. Will WDC staff be ready to facilitate student learning? Ab-solutely.
The 2012-2013 academic school year fall workshop for WDC staff begins Aug. 27. We will be welcoming the follow-ing new colleagues:
Gena Sperling, grade fourDoug Haas, health, physi-
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kindergartenKatrina Wahlin, grade oneA big thank you to all of you
who volunteered extra time and energy during the past two
years. We are truly blessed to have had so many individuals step up to help with construc-tion planning, classroom relo-cations and moving countless containers of books and other items from one location to an-other. The WDC community teamwork is amazing!
The dedication date for the new school facility is Aug. 29, set to be followed by a short dedication program and tours of the school given by staff and students.
A flag raising cer-emony is also set for Sept. 4, the first day of school. A student ribbon cutting is to follow. As it should be, this is about our kids.
As with past practice, I have no doubt the Wolver-ine tenacity will continue to
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools01.11.11 Perkins+Will Architect Steve Miller, right, met with Wadena-Deer Creek High School teachers and staff at the Dis-trict Office to review the latest floor plans for the new school. Miller was joined by Perkins+Will interior designer Julie McLeod. Pictured from left, sitting: science teachers Kelly Shrode and Sheri Nyhus, and math teacher Rachel Bounds. Standing, from left: industrial arts teacher Richard Muckala and physical educa-tion teacher Terry Olson.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools02.19.11 Perkins+Will representatives shared the latest exterior designs of the new Wadena-Deer Creek School Feb. 8 and 9 with WDC staff, students and the school board. Architects also went over the latest version of the school’s floor plans.Perkins+Will architect James Howarth, standing, shows district office and WDC High School staff the new exterior designs on Feb. 9. Also pictured, Joyce Boyne, bookkeeper, left, and Donna Sartell, administrative assistant to high school principal.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools02.07.11 A mountain of crushed concrete continues to grow each week. When tempera-tures dip below zero, the hydraulics on crushing equipment do not work to capacity, so work stops. However, according to Kraus-Anderson Project Superintendent Eric Domino, the crush-ing crew was scheduled to be back Feb. 11 and work through the weekend.
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Photo by Brian Hansel02.22.11 Perkins+Will Architect Steven Miller shows interior and ex-terior designs of the new Wadena-Deer Creek High School-Middle School at a Tuesday night school board meeting. Miller is expecting concrete work on the building to begin around May 1.
Groundbreaking date set
Sketches provided by Perkins+Will architects04.02.11 A view of the main entrance of the new school for grades 5-12 to be built on the same site as the former high school.
Reprinted from the April 2, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
The first ceremonial shovel of dirt for the new Wadena-Deer Creek school building will be turned over on May 6 at 3 p.m.
The WDC school board plans to invite lo-cal and state government representatives to the ceremony, which will recognize the efforts of the community and school committees who helped make the project possible. The public is welcome to celebrate the kickoff of the new school facility for grades 5-12. Refreshments and a light meal will be served after the cer-emony on the building site grounds.
Construction on the new school is sched-
uled to begin in May, and the structure will be built on the same location of the former high school. The $38 million project is set to be completed by fall 2012.
The former high school, built in 1965, was severely damaged by the June 17, 2010 tor-nado that ripped through Wadena and the sur-rounding area. The cost of the building project is being funded by insurance.
The school is being considered a “high-performance school” by Perkins+Will, the school’s architect. High performance schools are specifically designed to create a healthy environment for learning and be environmen-tally friendly.
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Activity at high school siteReprinted from the April 12, 2011
Wadena Pioneer JournalOver the next two weeks, the
public will notice heavy equipment working once again at the site of the former Wadena-Deer Creek High School.
Rachel Contracting will be re-moving the remaining concrete foundation and footings that were left due to environmental testing. The school recently received clear-ance to remove the footings after there was no threat of environmental concerns from the state.
A bulldozer and compactor will be using the majority of the crushed concrete and sand mixture to fill in the remaining hole from the boys’ and girls’ locker rooms. The remain-ing fill will be spread across the en-tire site to prepare the area for the new school.
Rachel Contracting will clean up any debris on the site as well. A groundbreaking ceremony is
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools04.12.11 A Rachel Contracting crew pushes and compacts crushed concrete and sand into the hole left by the original gym on Tuesday.
planned for 3 p.m. on May 6. Built in 1965, the Wade-
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was severely damaged by a EF4 tornado on June 17, 2010. Construction of a new
school for grades 5-12 will begin this spring.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools04.28.11 The first round of bid openings for the construc-tion of the new Wadena-Deer Creek School took place at WDC Elementary. At left, Kraus-Anderson Construction Senior Project Manager Chad Rettke announces each bid, as WDC Superinten-dent Virginia Dahlstrom and WDC Business Manager Jerry An-derson assist Rettke. More than 50 companies from Minnesota bid on concrete, structural steel, geothermal wells, site lighting, earthwork, asphalt paving, landscaping and utilities. Kraus-An-derson, the construction site manager, was to recommend the bids to the WDC School Board. The second round of bids for the remaining construction materials and labor were to take place in late June.
Reprinted from the May. 14, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Less than a year after an EF4 tornado destroyed Wade-na-Deer Creek High School, ground was broken May 9 to build a new school for grades 5-12. The school is set to open in September 2012.
All of the 172 chairs that were set up for spectators were full, and dozens more stood in front of the site along Min-nesota Highway 29, where the school will one day stand.
WDC School Board Chair-woman Ann Pate credited the “cooperation and collabora-tion” of the school community with making the new school possible.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar
said she was struck by the dev-astation she saw in the days after the tornado. She said the violent storm took the school building, many businesses and homes.
“But it didn’t take this area’s resilience,” Klobuchar said. “It didn’t take this city’s spirit.”
Congressman Chip Cravaack said the region’s response to the tornadoes showed character.
“You refused to let this wear you down,” he said. “This truly was your defining moment. You rose to the occasion.”
WDC High School Princi-pal Tyler Church pointed to the ground where the new school will stand and said, “When this building is constructed, it’s going to be something we’re incredibly proud of.”
Photo by Steve Schulz05.06.11 U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, Wadena Mayor Wayne Wolden, Congressman Chip Cravaack and School Board Chair-woman Ann Pate applaud during the groundbreaking ceremony May 6.
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Photo by Steve Schulz05.06.11 Wadena-Deer Creek Superintendent Virginia Dahl-strom stopped to smile while digging in the dirt, where the next WDC secondary school will soon stand. The groundbreaking cer-emony for the new school was held May 6.
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Reprinted from the July 23, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Construction on the new Wadena-Deer Creek School started May 9 and work is pro-ceeding on schedule, Kraus-Anderson Project Supervisor Bill Born said. By the end of this week, 85 percent of the footings was to be completed. Next week, the steel joists were to cut in preparation for the steel structure. Plans were to have the school completed by the first day of classes on Sept. 4, 2012. The WDC High School was severely damaged by an EF4 tornado June 17, 2010.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools
06.27.11 Kraus-An-derson Project Supervisor Bill Born, left, points out where the gymnasiums will be in the new school site to WDC School Board member Peter Hayes.
Photo by Dana Pavek, WDC Schools06.20.11 Standing where the new entrance to the Wadena-Deer Creek School will be on Monday were, from left: WDC School FEMA rep Bruce Boyne, WDC Superintendent Virginia Dahlstrom and Kraus-Anderson Project Supervisor Bill Born.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools06.20.11 Wadena-Deer Creek School Board members toured the construc-tion site on June 27 to see firsthand the progress being made on the new grades 5-12 school. WDC Activities Director Norm Gallant, Dan Toedter, Kraus-Anderson Project Supervisor Bill Born, Ann Pate and Peter Hayes discuss the building project.
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The Steffl Drilling & Pump crew began drilling wells Tuesday for the geothermal system that will heat and cool the new Wadena-Deer Creek School.
It will take the five-person crew about three months to drill the 200 wells needed to heat and cool the new school’s 174,500 square footage. The wells will be 306 feet deep, about 20 feet apart and located in the open area west of the school.
Steffl Drilling & Pump crew foreman John Dahl said they typically can drill three wells a day with two drilling trucks. But due to the amount of rock they are hitting, they look to finish two wells a day. Dahl said they are drilling through gravel and rock the first 120 to 140 feet, using several carbide bits with 2,000 pounds of pres-sure to cut through the rocky layers.
Once the wells are complet-ed this fall, the school grounds will be used again for phy-ed classes and other school-relat-ed activities. There will be no visible signs of the wells above ground. A mechanical vault six feet underground will house the mechanical equipment for the well system. Inside the school, another set of com-puter-operated controls will be housed for the temperature control system.
How a geothermal system works
Dahl said just a few feet un-derground, the earth remains at a nearly constant temperature of 50 to 70 degrees. Working with an underground earth-loop system, a geothermal
heating and cooling system utilizes this nearly constant temperature to exchange en-ergy between the school and the earth as needed for heating, cooling and hot water heating.
In winter, fluid circulating inside the underground earth-loop system absorbs heat from the earth and carries it to the school, where it is compressed to a higher temperature and used to heat classrooms, of-fices, as well as make hot water for kitchens and show-ers. In the summer, the sys-tem reverses and expels heat from the building to the cooler earth, thanks again to the loop system. The system is efficient in that it can be configured to provide hot water at nearly no additional operating cost.
While the geothermal sys-tem is expensive to install, WDC Schools will get a fast return and significant savings from the efficiency the heating and cooling system provides. Furthermore, there is less maintenance involved, and the system allows the school to free up space for classrooms. The life expectancy of a geo-thermal system is about 50 years.
Construction site work continues
Kraus-Anderson Project Supervisor Bill Born said ma-sonry crews will be back this week to do some additional concrete work. He said they are still on schedule for the steel erection to start the first
week of August.“Despite the state shut-
down, we are still on track with our construction sched-ule,” Born said.
He also asked that the pub-lic stay away from the con-struction site on the weekends and evenings, for safety rea-sons. During the week days, individuals are to report to the Kraus-Anderson trailer, locat-ed on the northeast corner of the construction site. Anyone who goes on the work site is required to wear a hard hat and safety vest, as well as proper clothing and footwear.
“Our main concern is mak-ing sure everyone is safe on the site,” Born said.
Drilling of geothermal wells at school construction site
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools07.19.11 Steffl Drilling & Pump is drilling 200 wells for the school’s geothermal heating and cooling system. It will take them about three months to complete the project. The company is from Willmar, Minn.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools07.25.11 Masonry workers poured cement July 25 for a retaining/seat wall along the northwest corner of the new Wadena-Deer Creek School gymnasium. Also this week, Community Center Drive, which runs between the former Leaf River Ag facility and the school construction site, will be torn up to start dewatering the area to lower the water table. This will allow workers to install new sanitary sewer lines next week, said Bill Born, project supervisor for Kraus-Anderson Construction Company.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools08.03.11 A masonry crew lays block for the elevator shaft on Wednesday for Wadena-Deer Creek’s new school. The shaft will be 43 feet high and will take about a week to complete. The eleva-tor will be located in the middle of the school and serve the two-story academic wing. Work continues on drilling of the 200 wells needed for the geother-mal heating and cooling system west of the con-struction site. The public will also notice a backhoe excavating this week on Community Center Drive, where the installation of the school’s sanitary sys-tem has started. Later this week, steel will arrive to the site. Workers will be embedding this pre-cut steel into the masonry. In approximately two to three weeks, the structural steel will begin to be erected, with visible signs of the school’s walls starting to take shape. The school district did re-ceive the above-ground building permit from the state, but the school is still waiting on a permit for the plumbing.
Reprinted from the Aug. 20, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
When the new Wadena-Deer Creek School is finished in fall 2012, students will be looking forward to rainy days to see how their “rain gardens” enrich the environment.
WDC School is build-ing 10 rain gardens of vari-ous sizes around the WDC campus grounds. Bill Born, project supervisor, Kraus-Anderson Construction, said a rain garden is a depression in the ground that’s designed to catch rain water and slow down and improve the qual-ity of the storm water runoff. The rain gardens also provide a natural habitat for birds and butterflies.
Most importantly, WDC decided to build the rain gar-dens as a way to make the school more environmentally friendly for students and the community.
“Creating these rain gar-dens will help build environ-mental stewardship in our students,” said Kelly Shrode, WDC science teacher. The rain gardens will be incorporated
into the school’s curriculum as an “outdoor classroom,” Shrode added.
Landscaping of native plants, perennials, trees and shrubs will surround the edges of the rain gardens. The bottom 3 feet of the rain garden will be filled with washed rock, and
the next 30 inches will be a layer of washed sand and or-ganic leaf compost. After a sig-nificant rainfall, the rain gar-dens will quickly soak up the moisture. If a large amount of rain does occur, the storm pipe system that’s being installed and connected to the rain gar-
dens will drain the excess to the pond on the northwest cor-ner of the WDC campus.
In addition to the rain gar-dens, plans are to include more “green” projects at WDC’s new school, such as a high-tunnel greenhouse and com-munity garden.
School to feature ‘rain gardens’Dana Pavek
WDC Schools
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools08.10.11 Workers install the storm drainage pipes for the rain gardens this week at the WDC School construction site. The storm lines run about 6 to 10 feet below grade and will connect the 10 rain gardens located around the WDC campus.
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Photos by Rachelle Klemme09.7.11 As the skeleton of the new Wadena-Deer Creek High School takes shape, a crane lifts a red beam under a clear sky Sept. 7.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools09.21.11 The block walls are going up on the east side of the locker rooms this week at the Wadena-Deer Creek School construction site. The steel is being installed around and above the administrative office area, the building storm and sanitary underground is being installed at both the gym-nasium and kitchen area, the underground electrical system has started at the main electrical room, and 188 of the 200 geothermal wells have been drilled.
Photo by Brian Hansel09.12.11 Block walls and steel beams at the WDC secondary school job site give silent confirmation that work on the $38 million structure is proceeding at a good pace.
Photo by Brian Hansel
09.12.11 Eric Brichacek, Dustin Hanninen and Justin Sweet of Johnson-Nelson Masonry work on top of a reinforced scaffolding Monday afternoon at the new Wadena-Deer Creek secondary school.
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Reprinted from the Oct. 10, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Every day, progress is made in building Wadena-Deer Creek’s high-perfor-mance school. Thanks to beautiful weather and long days, the construction com-panies are moving ahead and on schedule. The goal is to have the school completely enclosed by winter, said Bill Born, project site manager for Kraus-Anderson Construc-tion. So far, all is going well, he said.
Here’s a rundown of what’s going on Oct. 4:
• Community Center Drive and 5th Street road preparation is under way.
• Forty percent of the con-crete on the second floor aca-demic wing is poured.
• The west gymnasium wall is nearly completed up to joist bearing.
• Music area roof steel is being installed.
• Kitchen and academic area plumbing installation is under way, as well as the main electrical room.
• The exterior geothermal system is complete. Drilling of wells is finished on the west side of the school.
The concrete is being poured this week for the second floor academic wing.
Construction continues
Photos by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools10.08.11 Laying foundation block for the commons wall.
10.04.11 View of the academic wing.
10.08.11 The concrete that’s ground level at the bottom of this photo will support the walls of the gymnasium. To the right, will be the locker rooms and in the background are the academic wing (at left), the main entrance (middle) and the commons wall (at right).
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Reprinted from the Nov. 12, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Wadena-Deer Creek Public School learned this week they were successful in securing a grant from the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency (FEMA) to help fund a storm shelter/safe room gym-nasium.
WDC will receive $950,000 in FEMA funding for the safe room construction. The safe room will be 6,500 square feet and will be attached to the north side of the gymnasium at the new middle/high school.
The facility will be constructed accord-ing to FEMA guidelines, which require the safe room to be designed to withstand winds up to 275 miles per hour. The facil-ity will be a multi-use building, serving as an additional gymnasium at the new school, which will be used by the students and community for physical education, athletic events and community events.
FEMA is assisting WDC in its recov-ery from the June 17, 2010 tornado. Bruce Boyne is the school’s FEMA representa-tive. He has helped WDC secure FEMA funds for the new middle/high school and now the safe room. Boyne explained it was William Hirte, FEMA Public Assis-tance Officer, who suggested WDC apply for a federal grant to provide a safe room for students and staff at the new middle/high school. WDC Superintendent Vir-ginia Dahlstrom contacted James Russell,
state hazard mitigation officer, for assis-tance for a grant.
The application process started with FEMA in January 2011. Boyne said the hazard mitigation safe room application process is very thorough. He spent hours researching and compiling data. He said FEMA reviews information on cost of the safe room, populations to be served by the proposed safe room, a complete study of the safe room location, and then uses the data Boyne provided to determine if the Safe Room project is feasible and cost-effective.
“James Russell guided us through the entire application process over the last 10 months, and his assistance was invalu-
able to the Wadena-Deer Creek Public School’s success in obtaining the FEMA grant,” Boyne said.
If a weather-related event occurs and the Wadena County Dispatcher’s Office sounds the warning sirens, dispatchers will be able to unlock and turn on the safe room interior and exterior lighting elec-tronically from the dispatcher’s office.
“This will enable the safe room to be a safe room not only for students and staff present at the school but also make it a community safe room available should a severe weather event occur day or night, year-round,” Boyne said.
Plans are to have law enforcement and school staff report to the safe room when it is opened electronically, to assure prop-er procedures are followed. Once the safe room is completed and operational, the community will be provided additional information on procedures.
“Should the safe room ever be needed to provide shelter to students, staff and community members, the value will im-mediately become apparent,” Boyne said. “The advantage of a multi-purpose struc-ture really makes the safe room a valuable addition to the entire community, even though it may never be used to save lives. There is also comfort knowing it is there.”
Plans are to begin construction early in the spring of 2012, with a completion date of August 2012.
Visit WDC’s school website at www.wdc2155.k12.mn.us to view the safe room floor plans.
WDC School awarded FEMA funds for storm shelter gym
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools11.10.11 FEMA representative for WDC Schools Bruce Boyne, left, and WDC Superintendent Dahlstrom worked with FEMA on securing the federal grant need-ed to help fund the Storm Shelter.
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11.30.11 With decent weather at the end of Novem-ber, construction crews were able to keep working on the new Wadena-Deer Creek high school building.
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Reprinted from the Dec.10, 2011 Wadena Pioneer Journal
Here’s an update on the construction at Wadena-Deer Creek secondary school:
• We are pouring cement for locker room floors this week, as well as pouring the academic wing the week of Dec. 12.
• Exterior brick has started on the north end of the aca-demic wing.
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• Steel-stud framing has started on the second-floor classrooms.
• All underground plumb-ing is completed.
• Both underground and overhead electrical conduit are being installed.
• The building will be tem-porary enclosed this week. About 33 percent of the build-ing is now being heated to 50 degrees.
• Special inspections are ongoing. WDC has passed all inspections so far.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools12.02.11 The entrance to the commons on the west side is buttoned up for the winter months.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools12.02.11 Workers are busy enclosing the school temporary for the winter. This is a view of the north side of the academic wing.
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Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools05.26.12 Workers from Athletic Performance Solutions of Oak Park Heights, Minn., install the sub-flooring for the gym floor this week. The tongue-and-groove maple will be installed later this week. The finish and stripping will continue in June, fol-lowed by the installation of bleachers that will seat 1,284. The new gymnasium can be partitioned into three courts, separated by curtains. A total of 20 basketball hoops hang from the ceiling.
Photo by Dana Pavek/WDC Schools05.26.12 Sidewalks are poured along the east side of the WDC campus. The sidewalks provide walking paths next to the future greenhouse, rain gardens and parking lots. The construc-tion is on schedule, with plans to hold a dedication ceremony for the new grades 5-12 school. The ceremony is set to take place 5:30 p.m. Aug. 29 at the new campus.
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Photo by Dana Pavek, WDC Schools08.15.12 Roger Holmes, site fore-man for Midwest Specialty Mainte-nance, cleans a stainless steel serving line until it shines Wednesday in the new kitchen at Wadena-Deer Creek Middle-High School. Holmes and his crew are in charge of cleaning the school as areas are finished.
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Bob Tubandt reminisces
Bob Tubandt is a 1961 graduate of Wadena-Deer Creek High School, and is the current owner of Lyle’s Shoes. Tubandt started as a part-time trainee at Lyle’s a year before graduating and is now in his 52nd year at the store.
“You can see in one of my senior pictures that I’m sewing shoes at the store,” Tubandt said.
He fondly remembers his time at WDC, and he got along well with classmates. Tubandt added that there were many good teachers, as well as a good wrestling program. He was involved in wrestling when the program started in 1959 and wrestled in the lower
weight classes throughout high school.
Tubandt also boxed in the community while attending high school.
“I joined boxing in ‘59 as well,” Tubandt said. “I boxed for eight years and then be-came a coach.”
When he thinks of attend-
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Luella Sweere remembers
Luella Sweere is a long-time resident of Wadena, and a graduate of the Class of 1954. She was Luella Foltz then, but in 1956 became Mrs. Larry Sweere.
Luella met her husband during her time at WDC high school. Larry had worked for some time at the old Merick-el’s Furniture store in Wadena.
A favorite subject of Sweere’s while attending WDC School was home eco-nomics, taught then by Miss Ballard.
“I always liked my social studies teacher Mr. Mead,” Sweere said. “He was a very nice person.”
She also recalls the Wadena sports team logo as the Indians.
Larry and Luella went on to have five children, all of who attended and graduated from WDC.
Luella is very optimistic about the new school building.
“It’s very good for the town,” she said. “It’s nice for the kids.”
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Dave Quincer reflects
Dave Quincer is a 1983 WDC graduate and a lifelong resident of Wadena. He cur-rently manages the Cozy The-ater, and has done so since 1992.
Quincer began working at the theater while he was still in high school, helping with the drive-thru theater when it was in operation as well. While at WDC, Quincer was involved in basketball, wrestling, golf, drama, band and choir.
“The day of the tornado, I was out at the golf course,” Quincer said. “It was very emotional.”
Additionally, Quincer said his uncle, Phil, was actually in the school building itself for an all-school reunion when the tornado struck.
“They told everyone that was there to go into the old locker rooms in the basement for shelter,” Quincer said. “The red convertible that was totaled in front of the school afterwards was a car he drove here for the June Jubilee.”
Quincer remembers varsity games and wrestling matches at the elementary school gym, plays in Memorial Auditorium
and performing in half-time shows for sporting events.
“I remember riding my bike to driver’s training when I was 16,” Quincer said with a smile.
He added that he met his wife at WDC High School.
“It wasn’t so much the building itself that held a lot of worth, but it was the people, my classmates and the memo-ries made there,” Quincer said.
Quincer has seen the in-side of the new building, as he helped unload boxes there for the upcoming school year.
“It’s a very nice facility,” he said. “I’m very excited; it’s got a lot of improvements, com-pared to the prior building.”
Quincer has two sons who will be attending the new school, and his wife will be teaching fifth grade elementary classes.
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ing school at WDC, Tubandt recalls a particular friend. “Johnny Sundby was a good buddy of mine in school,”
Tubandt said. “He’s the owner of J&B Western Store in Pillager now.”
Additionally, Tubandt gives much credit to Superintendent Virginia Dahlstrom for all of her hard work in preparation for the new WDC building.
“It looks like a very nice school,” he said. “I hope it builds enrollment back up to where it should be.”
TUBANDT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 26
Nikki Dykhoff
Nikki Dykhoff thinks back
Nikki (Kneisl) Dykhoff is a 2006 WDC High School graduate. She attended college in Fergus Falls for two years and returned to Wadena’s Min-nesota State Community and Technical College for a degree in massage therapy. Dykhoff now works full time as a mas-sage therapist at Glamour Full Service Salon.
Dykhoff said she enjoyed the cooking and physical edu-cation classes WDC offered. She also remembers certain interesting aspects of life at the old WDC building.
“The lunches were actually pretty good,” Dykhoff said. “There was always a huge va-riety.”
Spirit Days, which was when Dykhoff and her sister wore suits made of duct tape, were another fond memory at the high school.
Dykhoff said she also liked many of the teachers, adding that they all had some kind of influence on her. Sports were also a positive part of her life.
“I was in a few different sports, like volleyball, bas-ketball and softball,” Dykhoff said.
One specific memory re-
garding the old school building also came to Dykhoff’s mind.
“The old locker rooms al-ways creeped the other girls and I out throughout high school,” Dykhoff laughed. “They were always very dark and seemed to smell funny….”
Dykhoff is very excited to see the new building, and will be attending the upcoming opening ceremony Aug. 29.
“I hope it brings in more students and families with chil-dren,” Dykhoff said. “A rise in enrollment would be great. It would be nice for businesses and owners, like myself, as well.”
Dykhoff is also excited to see the building’s new gym-nasium, considering she will be spending a considerable amount of time there as this upcoming school year’s assis-tant volleyball coach.
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Jordan Irish takes a look into her past at WDC
Jordan Irish graduated from WDC High School in 2008. She then attended Minnesota State Community and Tech-nical College, first for early childhood and development, then graduated with a degree in cosmetology.
Irish started work at Orton BP her junior year and contin-ued there until acquiring her current position as assistant manager at Family Dollar. In high school, she was involved in choir, volleyball and drama.
“I wasn’t the best at speech-es, so Mr. Patterson suggested
I join the fall play. He always made learning fun,” Irish laughed. “For some reason, I was always cast as the flirta-tious character….”
Irish recalls the sun roof and breakfast in the commons area of the old school, where she spent a lot of time.
“I often went early to school to see teachers and classmates before school started,” Irish said.
She also remembers get-ting chased down the halls by classmates, playing hacky sack with friends, getting kicked out of English class for various reasons and conducting pranks throughout high school.
“Mr. Klawitter hated the color pink, so I wore it every day for a week,” Irish said.
She was also a spokesper-son at the PEP rally for the Special Olympics at WDC her senior year.
“We got to get the kids pumped while wearing old cheerleaders’ sweaters from years ago,” she said.
In her sophomore year, Irish met Gov. Pawlenty’s as-sistant, who had grown up in Wadena, and learned the Bill of Rights from Mr. Grendahl in a government history class.
“I’m very excited about the new school, and even a little jealous,” Irish said with
a smile. “It will be nice for the school to have new books and equipment. Although, I’m disappointed there isn’t a pool, since I heard talk about that.”
Irish also hopes the new facility will bring in more students.
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WDC activities
Lisa Weniger
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Nancy Peterson
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Doug Haas (not pictured)
Terry Tumberg(not pictured)
Wendy Gravelle(not pictured)
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Keith FerrisBeth Motschenbacher
Jay Patterson
Kyle Dykhoff
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Carol Tornquist
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FOR is Friends of Rachel. Rachel’s Challenge is a program to help prevent bullying and create a culture of kindness. The program’s ideals were based on the writ-ings and life of 17 year-old Rachel Scott who was the first student killed at Columbine High School in 1999.KNOWLEDGE BOWL
Students in Knowledge Bowl are broken into teams and compete against other schools, just like athletic pro-grams. The different is these students answer questions. Questions range from grammar to pop culture to world history. LEOS
Leos are little Lions. The objective of the Leo Club program is to “provide the youth of the world with an opportunity for development and contribution, both indi-vidually and collectively, as responsible members of the local, national and international community.”NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
Student interested in being in National Honor Society must have a GPA of 3.5 or higher, have community ser-vice hours dating back to 9th grade and get recommenda-tions teachers. STUDENT COUNCIL
Student Council’s main goal is to create school spirit. Popular student council events are Homecoming Week, Snow Week, Crush sales and Christmas at the Cozy. SPECIAL OLYMPICS
The WDC Special Olympians compete in basketball. ROBOTICS
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Workers proud to be part of school’s construction
As construction for the Wadena-Deer Creek School comes to a close, it’s easy to tell many students, staff mem-bers and community patrons are grateful for the opportunity to start fresh.
A tornado may have de-stroyed the old school when it ripped through Wadena in June 2010, but the new facility has given many people hope for a promising future in education for the community.
But folks from around the area aren’t the only ones who see the new building as a blessing. Some who have spent time putting up the school are moved by the growth and posi-tivity it represents.
“Working with all those people was very refreshing, to see their positive attitude and to see how quickly this city has been rebuilt,” said James Howarth, one of the six main architects who helped design the new school.
Howarth strolled around outside the school Aug. 16, an Android tablet planted firmly in is hands. He was using the device to perform inspections on the property and send specs back to the Perkins+Will archi-tecture office in Minneapolis.
Sporting jeans and a Uni-versity of Minnesota cardigan, Howarth perhaps didn’t look the part of one of the top minds behind the WDC School. But his modest composure didn’t hide the reality that he and his team have brought consider-able healing to Wadena and surrounding communities.
“I think everything that is finished is looking real good,” he said as he stood outside the school’s front entrance, a smile on his face.
Howarth’s team, which he
said is made up of 20-30 de-signing professionals, special-izes in building schools like the one in Wadena. And while the Wadena project may be old-hat for this professional, it’s meant wonders for those who stand to benefit from it.
All in all, Howarth said he has enjoyed working on the school, adding that the facility couldn’t have been possible without the workers on site day in and day out.
Just a few yards away from where Howarth was working, Bill Goetze moved about the school’s parking lot, painting handicap spaces. Goetze con-tracts with Tri-City Paving out of Little Falls.
Along with his fellow workers, Goetze said he spent 15 hours painting parking lines and other outdoor sections Aug. 13. Also, he has some-times had to work in the dark to make project deadlines. But all the hard work is worth it to him.
“Kids are the most impor-tant thing, as far as our future,” Goetze said.
Goetze also said he was deeply saddened to hear of the destruction caused by the 2010 tornado. But he is thankful disaster has led to a stronger sense of camaraderie in the area.
“The biggest positive I can say is that it builds a commu-nity together,” he said.
In a different part of the parking lot, away from Goetze, fellow worker C.J. Welliver measured out a drop-off lane outside the school. She too has been inspired by positivity that has surrounded the new school, and she is excited about the progress that has been made.
“When I saw the rubble from the school, it freaked me out because that could have been my kid’s school,” she
said. Welliver, who also works
with Tri-City Paving, added that the new school is “gor-geous,” and although parts of the building might not be com-pleted by the Aug. 29 opening ceremony, people will be able to enjoy features of a safe, state-of-the-art facility.
Bill Born, project super-intendent for the school’s construction, summed up the feelings of many of the con-tractors and other site workers who have poured so much care into the new school when he walked through the building’s nearly completed entrance Aug. 13.
“The district really put to-gether a great team to build the project,” he said. “The project
went well from the foundation all the way up to the roof.”
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James Howarth, one of the main architects behind the construction of the Wadena-Deer Creek School, uses an Android tablet to inspect parts of the facility Aug. 16.
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