Kendall ready to begin construction project

The heavy equipment is in place, the water lines are waiting for installation and now all the Kendall Central School District is waiting for before construction can begin is dry weather. "The road was roughed out about two weeks ago and then the rains came," Superintendent of Schools Michael O’Laughlin said.

O’Laughlin said the septic system has been marked off and the lines are ready for installation. "If the weather starts cooperating we hope to have the construction project completed before September," he said.

More than a year ago, Kendall’s native son, Kevin Noon, donated a little over 40 acres to the school district. The land is being utilized as the future home of a fitness facility, an all-weather track, both of which will be open to the community, five softball-baseball diamonds, five tennis courts, two lighted basketball courts, a new bus garage and a 108-car parking lot.

The $3 million construction project also incorporates the construction of a bus garage, septic system replacement, replacement of air conditioners at the high school auditorium and other air handling needs. Updating of the drainage system and the addition of bleachers to meet the anticipated needs inherent with the upgrading of the sports facilities are also in the scope of the project.

Noon, owner of K & K Markets, and his wife, Kathy, graduated from Kendall. Kathy and her mother, Ardeen Brehse, were both teachers in the district and Kathy’s father, Franklin Brehse, was a school bus driver.

The donated land runs behind the elementary and high schools.

O’Laughlin said he hopes the air conditioning system will be in place before June’s graduation ceremony.