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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A caller schoolhouse portion of the Clovis Unified School District volition beryllium having its expansive opening solemnisation connected Thursday.
District officials accidental the Satoshi Hirayama Elementary School volition beryllium "bringing the heat" and volition person a drum show earlier the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The schoolhouse is named aft Satoshi Hirayama, helium was a teacher and person astatine Clovis Unified for a agelong clip and according to territory officials, was a ground-breaking Japanese American. District officials accidental helium experienced internment arsenic a child, went connected to play shot astatine Fresno State, served successful the U.S. Army successful the Korean War and was the archetypal Japanese American to play successful Japan's nonrecreational shot league.
Even though operation won't beryllium finished until aboriginal adjacent year, the caller simple schoolhouse volition unfastened with a finished medication building, library, MPR, and schoolroom for TK-1 people students. District officials accidental portables volition temporarily beryllium utilized for different grades.
District officials accidental it volition beryllium an breathtaking clip of foraging caller traditions and laying the groundwork for “The Heat” – the school’s mascot.
According to territory officials, Hirayama's Principal Laura Reynolds, territory medication and the school’s archetypal PTC president volition talk astatine the expansive opening.
About 50 members of Mr. Hirayama’s household are besides expected to attend, including his 3 sons and his 101-year-old member known arsenic “Uncle Tets.”
District officials accidental Hirayama students volition pb the emblem salute and determination volition beryllium a drum show anterior to the ribbon cutting. Tours volition beryllium offered pursuing the ceremony.
The lawsuit volition beryllium astatine Satoshi Hirayama Elementary School, located astatine 2150 N. Fowler Ave., Fresno connected Aug. 15. The lawsuit volition commencement astatine 8 a.m.
