GARDENDALE — Gardendale High School is now official.
On Wednesday, Dr. Anna Vacca cut the ribbon on the new school during a ceremony attended by dozens of officials and community members.
Also present were students who make up the GHS Class of 2010. Vacca dedicated the ceremony to those students, saying they have endured almost three years of disrupted classes and construction as crews built the new state-of-the-art facility.
The school opened on Feb. 16.
While Wednesday’s event was an invitation-only affair, the public is invited to tour the school during an open house Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
“This is a new building but it’s a building that contains a lot of heritage,” said Vacca. In designing the school, representatives with Davis Architects held numerous meetings with the public in order to gather input about how the school should look.
GHS teachers and others also formed a group to work closely with the architects in order to ensure key elements of the school’s history were retained.
Read the full article in Saturday's edition of the North Jefferson News.
