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Show Alpine District School Board Sets Tuesday For Site Selection Of New Elementary School The school board of Alpine District will tour the area next Tuesday in search of sites on which to build elementary schools, especially in the Orem-Pleasant Grove sections. The school board, at its regular meeting Monday night in American Ameri-can Fork, discussed and outlined the needs for immediate expan- sion of elementary schools. Alpine's elementary schools, for the most part, are now bursting their walls despite the fact that these new plants reached completion comple-tion and occupancy! in the past year. The district owns four sites in the Orem area, and officials will search for sites in Pleasant Grove and American Fork. Superintendent Superinten-dent David Mitchell pointed out, ' however, that Lehi is taken care of for the time being, with the completion this year of its new elementary ele-mentary school. American Fork is in next best shape, but it is expected ex-pected that with its growth normal nor-mal and the influx of industrial families- it will be only a matter of a comparatively short period -before another plant will be required re-quired there. The new Westmore and Central schools are already too small for the number of students attending them, one year after completion of both. It is becoming apparent that two more plants will have to be built in the Orem area, and one in the Pleasant Grove area. They will be built as needed, Mr. Mitchell said. At the meeting the board discussed dis-cussed small elementary school plants, architecturally fesible to build upon when needed, but at the same time with the idea of "bringing the schools to the children, child-ren, instead of the children to the schools," Mr. Mitchell said in closing. |