Broken Bow Schools Activities Director and Assistant Principal Jeff Ellis was a recent guest on KCNI’s Public Affairs. Among the topics discussed was the progress of the school remodel specifically how it relates to the rebuild of the Broken Bow High School gymnasium. Ellis said that the construction process has been going well.
“First off, the progress is coming along real smooth. They’re on schedule and it’s really unique in there. For all the folks that are very familiar with the “Bow Dome” the concrete is gone. The stage on the visitor’s side, the walls that were kind of barriers to the visiting side, and the home bleachers, the concrete is all out of there so it’s a clean slate, a clean rectangle. Now they will start coming in with the remodel if you will with paint and bleachers, new court, new wood, so the progress is on pace.”
Ellis added that the new construction will not be fully completed prior to the start of the fall sports season which will force some of the early Broken Bow volleyball games, originally scheduled as home games, to be played on the road.
“Timeline stuff, it will affect some of the initial fall volleyball games in that gym. We’re scheduled to kind of push off about our first three or four home games which is unfortunate but it kind of goes with the territory when you’re having a remodel project. So the first three or four home volleyball games of the year which they were all going to be at home this year…will all be on the road again this year to allow that project to be completed. Kind of the date that they’ve been giving us is September 10th is when that is supposed to be done and we’re suppose to have access to start playing games in there again this fall.”
