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Update shows money left over for Phase II projects. By VIRGINIA RANSBOTTOM Tribune Staff Writer LAKEVILLE Jan.18 is the new completion date for the dust to settle at LaVille Junior-Senior High School after some delays put the renovation project behind schedule. The previous guideline for completion was the end of can expect to come back after winter break and continue to be rerouted through a bit of sawdust for a few weeks. But the $1.2 million Phase I project at the high school should be worth the disruption.And there will be $370,000 to $400,000 left for Phase will be re-evaluated to possibly include Agriculture room Superintendent Terry Barker during a construction update Thursday. Some of Phase I includes new la carte and bookstore remodeled front entrance and office gym adding a long distance learning room to the library complete with the latest technology in MacBooks and Promethean interactive whiteboards.

Board members approved a change order that will add $14,000 for a rooftop HVAC system on the new long distance learning room. The cost will be taken from $55,000 budgeted for allowances since there were very few contingencies. The elementary $2.2 million construction project is also a bit behind schedule with earthwork being completed for the new and parking improvements. New classroom occupancy is not expected until the end of April.The new driveway and parking upgrades are hoped to be done by July 1. After much discussion on aquifers and members approved proceeding to get pricing for a new water cooled air system for the elementary that would save energy and eliminate a cooling tower.

Barker said even if the cost maxed out (between $100,000 and $150,000) for the open loop air conditioning would still be $50,000 to $60,000 left in the bond that could be applied toward technology. The board also approved the purchase of Rosetta Stone software to enhance foreign language learning and replace textbooks. Forty-seven students are signed up for Spanish and German classes starting the first part of the second Principal Chuck Phillips hopes to add French and Chinese after the pilot class. Cost to students will be $16 for a headset compared with $75 to $100 for a textbook. With program will cost about $10,000 the first year and then drop to about $6,900 the next.

With a surplus in the capital projects fund that will not be was transferred to the rainy day fund. HAVENS, 574-235-6325, Briefs STAFF REPORTS www.southbendtribune.com/news Local BITUARIES B6 USINESS B10 SouthBendTribune CYANMAGENTAYELLOWBLACK EDITION 50R IN Saturday, December 11, 2010 B1 WORDS OF WISDOM What gives you hope this holiday season? the positive in the holiday and not the commercialism of the in the community and each Tim Gray, of South Bend Compiled by staff writer May Lee Johnson Gray WBND-TV banking on area PUBLIC SAFETY Probe continues in Jefferson shooting SOUTH BEND Police released no new information Friday into the shooting of a 46-year-old South Bend was injured when someone fired a gun into her workplace Wednesday night. Theresa worked at Specialized Staffing E.Jefferson,re- portedly remains in critical condition at a hospital with a single gunshot wound to her head. Police are continuing to investigate the no arrests have been made.Any- one with information about the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 574-288- STOP or the Metro Homicide Unit at 235-5009. ACCIDENT 1 critical after SUV-ATV crash ELKHART Two people were taken to hospitals after an accident Thursday night involving an ATV and a SUV, police said.

The accident happened at Sugar Maple Lane and Osolo Road at 6:48 p.m.,the dispatcher said. A believed to be driving the ATV. He was transported to Memorial Hospital in South Bend where he was in critical condition Friday.A was a passenger on the ATV was taken to Elkhart General hospital to be treated and released. Witnesses said the ATV was heading north on Osolo Road when it ran into an SUV that was turning onto Sugar Maple Lane. Truck takes dip in Lawrence Lake PLYMOUTH A vehicle ended up in Lawrence Lake after the driver parked on the Olive Trail access ramp at 8:30 a.m.Friday with plans to go fowl hunting.

According to a Marshall County Department South he know what gear his Dodge Durango was in when he tried to back the truck went forward and became submerged up to the windows. Markin escaped through the sunroof.After towing the vehicle from the truck was found to be in park and the keys were in a coat inside the vehicle. CHARITY Gold coin left in Christmas kettle LaPORTE A gold coin was dropped into a LaPorte Salvation Army kettle. Carol kettle drive the coin was discovered late Thursday when change from the kettle was being counted at Wells Fargo Bank.The Salvation Army was notified about the coin Friday. Leyva said the gold coin minted in South Africa was found in a kettle outside Kroger.

She said a gold coin had not surfaced in a kettle in LaPorte in at least three years. Mishawaka Ave. bridge reopens State requests $1.8 million in Union-North budget cuts LaVille project within budget Busy bridge closed for more than a year. Tribune Staff Report MISHAWAKA Almost 13 months after it Mishawaka Avenue bridge reopened to traffic after 5 p.m.Friday. The in been going through a $5.4 million St.

Joseph County engineer Jessica Clark. Contractors with Walsh Construction Co. finished up striping and other details Friday to allow cars to pass.Motorists can expect some lane restrictions through the winter as improvements said. Clark said the south sidewalk of the bridge will remain closed through the spring because the barrier rail on that side has not been installed yet.Pedestrians should use the north sidewalk instead. The project included the construction of a tunnel at the bridge connecting Merrifield Park to Crawford Park as part of the riverwalk.

city will close Edgewater Drive to two-way traffic from Cedar Street to Mishawaka Avenue.Edgewater Drive will be only for southwest-bound to a press release.It’s part of the plan in 2011 to permanently make Edgewater a one-way street. Moving office to Generations OK. By ERIN BLASKO Tribune Staff Writer In an effort to compete in the local news market against the likes of and Broadcasting owns local ABC affiliate to invest more than $2 million in a state-of-the- art news facility near Indiana 23 and Douglas Road. Contingent upon permission from the Chicago-based media company, which also owns WCCW-TV (CW25) and WMYS-TV to move from an office suite at Edison Lakes in Mishawaka to a building at 53550 Generations Drive in Clay Township. In plans to hire an additional 30 to 35 and administrative staff the new facility and work alongside its sales currently numbers 17.

was a tough decision to make because it takes a lot of time and produce a newscast from WBND-TV general manager Jeff we assessed it and decided it was worth Though WBND has dabbled in local news for a number of years it currently produces an 11 p.m.newscast with assistance from its sister station in Milwaukee this represents its first real attempt at local news gathering since taking over as the local ABC affiliate in the mid-1990s. According to plan is to produce three daily newscasts one in the morning and two in the evening though that could change depending on a number of finances. the bare at least going to do an early evening and a late evening at least committed to Though entering a crowded market during a period of slow economic expressed confidence in the ability to compete against the big hitters in local news WSBT-TV (NBC) and WSJV-TV (FOX). think room for plaining the local television market which covers 10 counties in northern Indiana and southwest Michigan produces enough content to support a fourth news station. really think this is an opportunity to service the people of with news and weather no one else in the News Director Aaron served in the same position at television station WOAI in San Antonio, to joining WBND in November.

According to paperwork filed with the cost of the new broadcast facility is estimated at between $2.25 million and $2.75 upon whether the county grants Weigel an abatement on real and tangible personal video and broadcast equipment. The company cleared an initial hurdle in the abatement process the County Council voted unanimously to declare the property on Generations Drive an Economic Revitalization Area. In company has also filed a petition for special use to install a telecommunications tower on the is required in Tribune ALLISON Workers paint the center line on Mishawaka Avenue on Friday afternoon near the bridge over the St. Joseph River. The span reopened to traffic at 5 p.m.

Friday after nearly 13 months under construction. Superintendent says request is a Union-North schools Superintendent Terry Barker reported Thursday that the Department of Local Government Finance has requested that $1.8 million be cut from the school general fund. The $8 million requested for the general fund budget is $33,000 less than in 2010 and follows $1.4 million in cuts, which included 22 teachers and non-certified staff. Barker said he was confident it is a misunderstanding and the issue can be resolved. have class sizes of a said.

submitting a formal appeal for reconsideration and I think after sending them some more better understand what it is been doing See.