The Port Neches-Groves ISD board of trustees voted Monday to hire Beaumont architect Dohn LaBiche to design a multi-purpose indoor facility on the PN-G high school campus that can be used for all student activities, including football, softball, band, and twirling.
We caught up with the Indian twirlers Monday afternoon, while they were practicing to perform at Saturday's playoff game. They talked about their concern that the approaching cold front could cost them practice time.
But come next year, PN-G superintendent, Rodney Cavness Ed.D, says students won't have to worry about weather preventing their practice time.
That's because the district is building a 17,000 square foot indoor facility, on the south side of the field house at the high school. Cavness says it will have turf on it like the football field.
Best of all, the $530,000 price tag will be paid for with donations, which doesn't surprise Cavness. He told us, "People love this place and they want it to stay this quality school district that it is, and they'll give a lot of them their last dollar to see that it does."
Indian twirler Karli Monceaux said, "We're very thankful that the community is supporting us, and we have such a loving family and home, and community and I wouldn't want to be any other place."
Cavness wants groundbreaking to happen soon, and after that he believes the project will only take six months to complete.
He also plans to propose it house career and technology classrooms.
