Big Move almost complete

By Becky Brooks

Man­ag­ing Editor

news@gazettepublishingco.com

Hun­dreds of vol­un­teers turned out at schools through­out the Belle­vue City School Dis­trict early Fri­day morning.

For some school dis­trict mem­bers the “big move” from old to new build­ings began at 6 a.m. with clean­ing out Ellis School.

Super­in­ten­dent Kim Schu­bert was lug­ging boxes like every­one else dur­ing mov­ing day.

“It’s won­der­ful. We couldn’t have done this with­out all our vol­un­teers from the com­mu­nity,” she said late morn­ing stand­ing at the base of the sec­ond floor stair­way in the new ele­men­tary build­ing. A line of vol­un­teers stood on each step wait­ing to hand boxes from the first floor to the third floor in that building.

Schu­bert said she was with the small group that packed up Ellis boxes and then moved on to Ridge Elementary.

The major­ity of the over 200 vol­un­teers turned out between 8 and 9 a.m. and went to York, Ridge and the mid­dle school.

As mov­ing trucks were filled, the vol­un­teers fol­lowed them to the new build­ings on North­west and Ohio 269 to unload in mass and take boxes to the cor­rect floors and classrooms.

Vol­un­teers came from The Belle­vue Hos­pi­tal, Fish and Loaves, the Com­mit­tee to Grow Belle­vue and civic groups as well as the schools.

The work­ers had all the boxes and small equip­ment relo­cated by shortly after noon and were treated with a lunch at BAF by 12:30 p.m.

Belle­vue City Coun­cil­man Ron Smith was one of the work­ers. He was vol­un­teer­ing with Fish and Loaves. “We thought we would give back to them,” he said about the group from the food pantry. Smith, don­ning a Fish and Loaves shirt, said it was his first time in the new ele­men­tary build­ing. “This is some­thing else … beau­ti­ful facility.”

In the new mid­dle school, teacher Jen­nifer Baltzell was mov­ing boxes like the other vol­un­teers. “It is beau­ti­ful and its smells great,” she said about the new build­ing where she will have her sci­ence class.

A mom who vol­un­teered Fri­day morn­ing to move boxes into the new mid­dle school had a tag along.

Tamra Hay brought her daugh­ter, Gra­cie, who will be a sixth grader.

Hay said she wanted to help out.

“And it’s nice for the com­mu­nity,” she added.

Her daugh­ter, who had been a York School stu­dent, pointed out they vol­un­teered so she could see what her new school would look like.

“It’s beau­ti­ful,” both commented.

Gra­cie added, “The locker space is good too.”

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