This month's lesson: resourcefulness; Ada-Borup students head back to school in borrowed spaces.(NEWS)
Posted: Aug 31, 2008 10:50:21
Students in Ada were learning about ingenuity Monday when they returned to school for the first time in a month.
The Ada-Borup High School, formerly attended by about 300 seventh- through 12th-graders, was destroyed by a blizzard and a flood.
So students are now attending classes at a barn, two churches and an elementary school.
They have 10-minute intervals between classes to go two blocks from the Norman County 4-H Building to Faith United Church, or four blocks to Zion Lutheran Church, or across the road to the Ada-Borup Elementary School.
Ada-Borup High School Principal Jim Christianson said the contaminated high school will be demolished.The new school ...