Media Advisory: Green Elementary School Parents and Students Celebrate New Track

MEDIA ADVISORY -- June 5, 2014
Contact: Cynthia Reed-Porter, 619-546-3378

Green Elementary School Parents and Students Celebrate New Track

WHAT:  San Diego Unified School District's Green Elementary School is getting a long-awaited track for its academic-athletics magnet program. Students, parents, community members and staff will celebrate the start of construction with a groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow. The track will be an integral part of the school's athletic program, and will allow special needs students to participate in activities on the track.

WHEN: Friday, June 6, 5-5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Green Elementary School field, 7030 Wandermere Dr., San Diego, CA 92119
(Media parking is available on site. Enter off Belle Glade Ave. on the west side of the campus.)

VISUALS: Ceremonial ground breaking and architectural rendering (annual school campout with hundreds of parents and students is occurring on the field immediately following the ceremony)

GUEST SPEAKERS/INTERVIEWS: Kevin Tran, first-grader, top runner; Evan Rodriguez, top fifth-grade runner; Kevin Beiser, Board of Education president; Lee Dulgeroff, Facilities Planning & Construction executive director; Daniel Nagel, parent, Green ES Track Committee co-chair; Mat Krotrinsky, parent, Green ES Foundation president; and Peg Dermody, parent, Green ES Track Committee co-chair. (Interviews will be available in Spanish.)

PROJECT INFO:
This project includes the installation of an all-weather, four-lane running track around the school's current turf field. This nearly $230,000 project is funded by the school district's Proposition Z, the general obligation bond measure approved by voters in 2012. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid to late June, and is expected to be complete by August of 2014.

BACKGROUND:
Myron B. Green Elementary is an academic and athletic magnet school in the San Carlos community of San Diego. It offers offer regular, vigorous exercise in addition to rigorous academics to create a sound mind and sound body.  

According to the school's website, "We expect and deliver excellence in character development, education, and a healthy life-style.  Superior academic instruction, physical education, a variety of fine arts experiences, and a multitude of after school activities including sports, and community building activities create students focused on being intelligent, healthy, well-rounded leaders of the future where ....  Academics + Athletics = Success!"  


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Cynthia Reed-Porter, Communications Supervisor I Communications Office I San Diego Unified School District
Phone: 619-546-3378 (mobile) I E-mail: creed-porter@sandi.net


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