By JEFFREY SMITH
Leader staff writer
Time is running out to have your name etched in stone at Cabot High School’s new HPER (health, physical education and recreation), and cafeteria building.
Monday is the last day to order a personalized brick supporting the Cabot Panther Education Foundation. Donors have two choices when ordering a personalized brick.
One set of bricks will be laid to form the word “Panthers” in the wall beside the entrance of the HPER building. The word “Panthers” is made up of 788 bricks. These bricks will cost $250 each. A second set of personalized bricks will be laid in a sitting bench. The bench will be constructed below the word “Panthers”. The bench will run the length of the “Panthers” sign. The bench seat will have 800 engraved bricks. These bricks are $100 each.
Foundation coordinator Debbie Walters said the deadline for ordering the engraved bricks was moved up to Monday because the brick masons are running ahead of schedule. Brick orders were to continue to the end of the school year.
“Sales have been going well. We started selling them at the first of the school year,” Walters said.
“There are plenty of bricks available,” she said.
The $12.9 million two-story HPER and cafeteria building is scheduled to be completed by fall 2011. The building is 110,064 square feet. The basketball court will have seating for 2,200. The gymnasium will have an upper level concourse, an area of audio and visual production and concession stands. The HPER building will also have a new lobby and restrooms.
The cafeteria will seat 1,000 people. The cafeteria will have a new kitchen and 10 serving areas.
To order a personalized brick contact Debbie Walters at 501-743-3530 or stop by Walters’ office on the third floor of the football field house at 602 N. Lincoln St.
