{"id":45073,"date":"2013-10-31T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=45073"},"modified":"2013-10-31T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T23:02:01","slug":"groundbreaking-ceremony-for-new-david-g-millen-intermediate-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/10\/31\/groundbreaking-ceremony-for-new-david-g-millen-intermediate-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking ceremony for new David G. Millen Intermediate campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(L to R) Sandy Corrales Eneix, Carol Stanford, Bob Rodrigo, Norm Hickling, Jim Ledford, and Pauline Winbush shovel the first scoops of dirt at the ceremonial groundbreaking for David G. Millen Intermediate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 Palmdale School District officials held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday morning for the new David G. Millen Intermediate School.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a dream come true, today is a real celebration,\u201d said Palmdale School District Board President Sandy Corrales-Eneix. Corrales-Eneix, Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford, Interim Superintendent Pauline Winbush, and Michael Antonovich\u2019s Field Deputy Norm Hickling gave brief remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n

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The 97,000-square-foot campus will include 41 teaching stations and eight main buildings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The new campus will be located on 16 acres of land at 39221 22nd Street West in Palmdale. When completed, the 97,000-square-foot campus will include 41 teaching stations and eight main buildings, according to Al Tsai, Maintenance & Operations Administrator for Palmdale School District.<\/p>\n

Actual construction on the projected $34 million campus will begin in late December\/early January, and the campus is slated for completion in August 2015, Tsai said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about an 18-month construction timeline,\u201d Tsai said. The project is funded by monies from Measure DD.<\/p>\n

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The campus is named after David G. Millen, a 29-year veteran of the Palmdale School District.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just exciting to have construction be going on in the Antelope Valley, in Palmdale, because that will bring work to our local vendors,\u201d said Interim Superintendent Pauline Winbush. \u201cWe utilize local vendors on our Measure DD projects as much as we can and so parents of our children will be able to utilize the funds of Measure DD.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once completed, the new campus will house students from Juniper Intermediate and from the David G. Millen Intermediate currently located on the back side of Summerwind Elementary.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you will have probably 1,200 students come opening day at this particular site,\u201d Corrales-Eneix\u00a0said, adding that the new state-of-the-art facility will be in a prime location.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have Summerwind Elementary about five blocks away from here, so those students will feed into David G. Millen Intermediate School, and then these students will feed into Highland High School, five blocks away,\u201d Corrales-Eneix\u00a0continued. \u201cSo it\u2019s an easy transition\u2026everything\u2019s in the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to literature distributed at the groundbreaking ceremony:<\/p>\n

“The new David G. Millen Intermediate School was designed collaboratively with input from Palmdale School District principals, through the programming and master planning process. Flexibility is a key theme throughout the design of the project, with features such as classrooms designed to interface with the AVID program and technology. The gym and multi-purpose room facilities can operate independently from the school during evening and weekend hours. As a safety and cost saving measure, windows are minimized and translucent skylight panels will be utilized in order to maximize natural daylighting in learning spaces.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Millen’s widow, Sharon (left), and stepdaughter Vicky Vogel (right) attended the ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thursday\u2019s ceremonial groundbreaking also served as a tribute to the school\u2019s namesake \u2013 renowned educator David G. Millen, who succumbed to Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2004. During his 29 years with the Palmdale School District, Millen served as principal at several schools, influenced hundreds of educators and was a coach and mentor to dozens of leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not a day that goes by where I don\u2019t think to myself, \u2018what a powerful, positive influence, David G. Millen\u2026\u2019 he is a great man and a great friend,\u201d said Bob Rodrigo, who was assistant principal to Millen at Cimarron.<\/p>\n

Millen\u2019s widow, Sharon, attended the groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very very proud that those values that David held dear, not just for the academics and work pieces but for the relationships and the family pieces, are what\u2019s lasting and that\u2019s what you hear about here today,\u201d Sharon Millen said. \u201cAs individuals, we can make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PALMDALE \u2013 Palmdale School District officials held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday morning for the new David G. Millen Intermediate School. \u201cThis is a dream come true, today is a real celebration,\u201d said Palmdale School District Board President Sandy Corrales-Eneix. Corrales-Eneix, Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford, Interim Superintendent Pauline Winbush, and Michael Antonovich\u2019s Field Deputy Norm Hickling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}