Edna High School adds new ag shop and resurfaces track

By Michael Brooks

Staff Writer
The Edna Independent School District has a plan in place to replace various facili- ties over the last five years. The next step in the process is an addition to the high school ag building that should be com- pleted by the end of September.

“We’ve had a five or six- year-plan for the facilities,” Edna Superintendent Robert O’Connor said. “We started off doing the stadium and then the weight room, then the audito- rium, and then the new audito- rium and administration building. So it has just been from one priority to the next one. The existing shop is very nice. It’s not very old but it’s also not very big. I’ve had garages that were bigger than that Ag shop.”

The new building will pro- vide plenty of room for the larger projects the students will be working on as well as en- sure the students can work without getting in the way of each other.

“When you are running be- ginning welders and two or three advanced welding proj- ects through there, it becomes a safety issue because you get

so many projects going at one time and you want to get them spread out a little more so they are not working on something right on top of someone else,” O’Connor said.

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