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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
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JCPH will soon provide more COVID-19 vaccines
A school building is born
Process is challenging; Over 21,000 Jeffco residents have received one dose BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Marshdale Elementary School will be rebuilt beginning this summer on land just south of the current building. This is a view of what SCREENSHOT the new entrance on the northeast end of the building will look like.
New Marshdale Elementary expected to be ready for the 2022-23 school year BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Marshdale Elementary School is getting a makeover of great proportions. Thanks to a bond approved by voters in 2018, Jeffco Public Schools is spending $21 million to build a 50,000-square-foot school building south of the current school on North Turkey Creek Road, then demolish the 40-year-old building to make way for a new playground. On Jan. 20, the school’s PTA hosted a virtual meeting with the architects to unveil plans for the school. Construction will begin in
CHECK IT OUT Take a virtual tour of the new Marshdale Elementary School plan by visiting marshdale.jeffcopublicschools.org. June, and the school is expected to open in August 2022. The new school will hold about 400 students, and it will include two wings, one for preschool through second graders and the other for third through fifth graders with an outdoor courtyard in between. A preschool will be a new program for the school. Principal Zak Martin said he was pleased that the architectural firm, Hord Coplan Macht, listened to school representatives’ vision for the new building. “We wanted to make sure the new building had outdoor space to take advantage of the area we are in,”
This is the floorplan for the school that was unveiled to Marshdale parents and SCREENSHOT the community last week.
Martin said. “We didn’t want to close kids off from the wonderful scenery, the mountains and different areas that we have around the school.” School officials, teachers and
A Jefferson County Public Health official said the county’s COVID-19 vaccine providers will soon be able to give residents their first vaccine dose at a faster rate than they have so far. That change is a result of new direction from the state to begin giving doses that were previously being saved for second doses as first doses. “What we are intending with that is to really make sure that we can get to some of the most vulnerable, particularly the 70-plus population, with at least one dose without having some vaccine sitting in the refrigerator waiting for someone to come in for a second dose,” said JCPH Community Health Services Director Margaret Huffman. According to Huffman, about 21,000 Jefferson County residents had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Jan. 20. About 6,000 of those people have received two doses.
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