It continues to be a sad sight when I pass the now very vacant, bare lot where my elementary school used to be.  A bit upsetting that there is now no remnant of the many years spent there.  I realize that a more modern, larger school was desired but still...

Dean

What? I was looking forward to going by the place to see it again. It is gone? I guess I better really hold on to the old year books for sure.

I agree totally! I hated to see it go. It has extra special memories for me because my daughter attended  there for 3 years as well. I can still remember taking her to her first day at kindergarten like it was yesterday.

Hi, Dean.  The building is gone but the memories live on, I used to live half a block from the school on Allen St., and that house too is gone.  But, I will never forget the time I spent there, I started in Ms. McCallum(sp) 4th grade class, then Ms. Erickson for 5th, and Mr. Prutsman(sp) in 6th.  I loved being in the Melodrama that he had us put on, and how can I forget the day our Principal Mr. Davis fired Mr. Prutsman in front of a stunned 6th grade class.  They both stormed out of the classroom, only to return laughing and explaining that it was an April Fool's joke.  I learned to speak english that first year in 4th grade, only to realize now that I still have a lot to learn.  The school is gone, but it lives on in us.