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COURIER-POST, Monday, May 14,2001 5A TimberNew $41.2 million school should be ready by September FROM PAGE 1A, Continued from Page 1A Timber Creek High School 1 Cost: $41.2 million Colors: Silver and navy blue Nickname: Chargers Academic classrooms: 32 Laboratory classrooms: 12 Average classroom size: 750 square feet Auditorium seats: 1,033 Cafeteria seats: 450 Athletic fields: 9 Tennis courts: 8 Football stadium seats: 1,700 SOURCE: Black Horse Pike Regional School District 1 tin under the hardwood gym floors were stacked in neat piles. Workers Installed part of the blue roof above the canopy by the main entrance. The atrium at the front doors Includes a large skylight, as does the two-story, octagon-shaped library just down the main corridor. Faculty lounges overlook the library. Ross, who has been a vice principal at Highland for about 20 years, proudly showed oil' the space that will be his office.

It is strategically located In a front corner of the building where the parking lots and incoming visitors can be observed. Security cameras will be placed throughout the building. School officials also planned for possible expansion of Timber (-reek, said Superintendent Gerald Killeen. The cafeteria, gym and auditorium were designed to handle l.li(X) students, Ross said, 600 more than expected in the 2002-03 school year. There's enough land so classrooms can be added.

The latest Census figures show Gloucester Township grew from 53,797 people in 1990 to 64,350 in 2000. Runnemede's population fell from 9,042 to 8,533 while Bellmawr's dropped from 12,603 to 11.262 in the same period. Still, Black Horse Pike Regional grew from 2,823 students in October 1990 to 3.488 students 10 years later, Killeen said. "There's not going to be a lot of crowded hallways," said Cummings, referring to the new school's size. "It will be tough to find your classes at first." 15, who will ben junior, said she has only seen the outside of Timber ('reek.

"The school Just goes back so far and Is so big," said McClos-key, who is active In the band and school musicals. "It's just goiiiR to be great," Still, Hruwn, who is Involved in student council and freshman baseball, said leaving friends behind at Highland High School will be tough. Timber Creek will relieve overcrowding In Highland and Triton, the district's two other schools, and bring an end to staggered classes. Like any large construction project, there have been a few glitches, including wall tile that didn't match, said Barry Engel-bert, supervisor of buildings and grounds. Those problems have been fixed.

Finishing touches may take place during the early part of the school year, officials said. Some parents have been concerned recently that the school might not be ready by the first day of school. That's understandable if you look only at the outside of the building, officials said. Voters approved bonds for the facility in 1998. Ground for the school, situated on 68 acres along Jervis Road, was broken in December 1999 and construction started in February 201)0.

In the 2001-02 school year, 850 students will attend the new facility, with the number climbing to 1,200 in 2002-03, Ross said. As part of redistricting to AL SCHELLCourier-Post Foreman Frank Romeo (front) and worker Joe Marker prepare to put In a mosaic floor at the new Timber Creek High School. For decades, thousands of innocent consumers have suffered strokes, heart attacks or even died from taking popular over the counter or prescription cold, sinus, allergy, cough or diet medications, or energy boosters, that contained PPA (phenylpropanolamine) or Ephedra. Over 400 well-known products with PPA were recently withdrawn from sale. If you or a loved one suffered a stroke or heart attack anytime in the past, and you suspect that one of these medications had been taken within three days before the incident, please call us immediately so that we can consider your potential claim against the manufacturer.

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Mike Cummings, 16, who will be a junior at Timber Creek, is looking forward to playing basketball in the huge gym and baseball on the new diamonds, complete with dugouts. He hasn't yet seen the inside of the new school. Ind(xrs on a recent morning, masons were still laying brick in the school's auditorium and pouring some of the floors. Some classrooms were nearly finished. Plywood and padding that go fill the building, seniors will stay at their current schools for the next academic year.

Sixty-five teachers initially will work at the new school. The Timber Creek Chargers will have a full slate of Olympic Conference athletics, including football, basketball, field hockey and soccer. A class ring has been designed for the first seniors. The gymnasium is one of the largest in South Jersey, Engelbert said. The lighted football stadium seats 1,700 people.

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