Friday's Internet Edition, July 30, 2010.
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The Clemmons Courier - Details are still sketchy, but the Clemmons village council last week considered a joint project to build a community center on a wooded tract owned by Clemmons Elementary School.
Dr. Ronald J. Montaquila, principal, said the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education would lease 3.5 acres of the school property for $1 a year for 30 years.
The village would chip in a share of the construction cost for a building that would be a school gym by day and a community center by night and weekends.
“There is a need if we can get this done,” said school parent Rodney Latham. He said the children must now play and eat in the same gym/cafeteria — often at the same time.
Montaquila said the school would maintain and insure the new building.
“It would give the Village of Clemmons a focus,” he said. “We’re interested in making the school the centerpiece of Clemmons. You would be hard-pressed to find three and a half acres.”