When you consume as much news as I do (I watch enough to have developed a romantic complex for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow… believe me, I know), it can be hard to separate the nourishing wheat from the inane chaff. Not to wax poetic or anything, but if one possesses a certain disenchanted or cynical eye, then the $5.3 million renovation of Cane Run Public Elementary (located in the Camp Taylor neighborhood in southwest Louisville) might go unnoticed, which would be a shame because, golly, the area needs it. (Link via the C-J.)
Although expanded classrooms and the like won’t be completed until about a year’s time, the project’s more eco-friendly features — including external solar panels, weatherized roofing, and upwards of 50 geothermal heating wells — will be installed by this fall, just when the students will be preparing for another erratic Louisville winter.
Yay, indeed.
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Nice article, but Cane Run is no where near Camp Taylor. The only public school in the Camp Taylor neighborhood (which is Central; not Southwest) is the ironically named, Camp Taylor Elementary.
Also ironically, Camp Taylor Elementary is apparently not scheduled to received any of the stimulus school construction/renovation monies, even though the school is almost 40 years old, and has had few upgrades since it was built.
Ach! That’s the second to last time I believe anything I read on Wikipedia (regarding the Camp Taylor neighborhood). I’ve found that the demarcations that define many of Louisville’s ‘hoods can be amorphous, fuzzy, or otherwise overlapping. Selah…
A shame about the stimulus, but since they’ve secured alternative funding it’s still a win.